The 7 Ten Empire : The Global Expansion Essay

The War with Veii played a significant role in the expansion of the Roman Empire. The war, which ended in 410 B.C., set in motion an entirely different Roman army. No longer was the army a volunteer militia, instead it became a paying and contractual organization. The “Roman victory brought an end to Rome’s most threatening neighbor and began its rise to prominence in the central Italian peninsula” (www.warandgameinfo.com).

Chau’s thesis that the rise and fall of empires was due to tolerance, inclusion, difference, and diversity is shown to be true of the Roman Empire because of the way that tolerance allowed and caused the empire to rise, enter its golden age, and fall. The Roman Empire was a “hyperpower” that lasted from 44 BCE to 476 CE. The empire contained Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe, along with North Africa; thus, there was an abundance of culture from many different conquered groups. Romans wanted to make these conquered nations provinces of Rome. The Roman Empire began (and the Roman Republic ended) with the assassination of Julius Caesar, who wanted to be a dictator. No longer a republic, the lands already ruled by Rome became part of an empire. The government became centralized with a single ruler, the emperor. However, even before the empire, during the Republic, there was also the similar feeling of wanting to conquer other nations was there.

During the early 1900s, America’s reputation as a world power prospered by possessing the third largest navy in the world and a significant domain over smaller countries. It was able to acquire superiority internationally due to its intervention in the intense colonialism of the time, including fast extension, colonization, and rivalry. However, America’s colonial power did not suddenly develop. Though the United States expansionism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century was an explicit continuation of cultural and social factors that had powered the country’s past expansionism, it was more of a departure from the strategies for the past in which financial and political motives were sought.

The United States at the dawn of the 20th Century was beginning its ascent into worldwide prominence. This was unprecedented for what had once been termed as an “experiment in democracy” and came with unexplored opportunities for the nation. The West had all but been conquered, and the industrialization of the nation was in full swing, but what the country needed was a market for its surplus goods. With the prominence that had caused America to gain worldwide attention, the nation likewise followed suit with other worldly nations of the time and engaged in the pursuit of imperialist expansion. Regardless of whether it is in fact imperialism, or if it was the “American exceptionalism” that our country likened it to, the fact is that

The West prior to and after the Civil War was largely unpopulated by the white man, the Indians, as a result, dominated the landscape mostly undisturbed. However, this separation came to a halt as legion of white pioneers invaded the great plains, displacing the Indians and “civilizing” the West. With tensions rising, the government attempted to make treaties that gave the Indians designated areas to live. What the government failed to realize was that there wasn’t a primary Indian hierarchy and that the people in charge of upholding these treaters were corrupt. Inability to control the nomadic people and growing anger amongst the Indian ranks lead to many bloody skirmishes between the Indians and the U.S. Army. The Indian’s had a short lived victory at the Battle of Little Big Horn, “Custer’s Last Stand.” Eventually, the U.S. Army forced the Indians to surrender and corralled them into reservations where they silently suffered for generations as the government attempted to assimilate them.

Social, economic, and political change altered the nature of imperialism in three principal ways. One was the amplified need for natural resources, two was the new understanding of economics, and three was the expanding sense of what it meant to be civilized. All of these events and ideas were lead up to by the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution altered the course of history in numerous ways but the most significant is certainly that of imperialism.

Rome was a vast empire. At Rome’s peak the empire stretched nearly 1.7 million square miles and included most of southern Europe. To keep this vast empire organized the romans created a network of roadways or what we would call it today highways. This network would keep the empire connected with information and supplies to all the surrounding colonies and out post. These roadways contributed to the success of Rome’s power in 3 ways, its military force, trade, and communication. The military would serve as protection and expansion of the empire, trade would bring wealth to the nation and become powerful, communication would bring new ideas from the surrounding nations, new concepts and way of thinking. All these aspects when combined created one of the greatest empires known to man.

All of these philosophies worked together to help further American expansion. The first two philosophies that I discussed and explained gave us reasons why we should expand. Turner told us that the reason why society has changed and the reason why we have been such a great country has been due to free land. He then goes on to explain that there is no free land for us to have on our continent. So what is the only reasonable answer to continue our exploration of the frontier? Why of course to expand overseas. Mahan’s philosophy only helps convince us by telling us that we need to have a bigger navy. He says that every country with a good navy lasted longer and was stronger than other countries no matter what the size. He also tells us that the

During the Fifth century government and religious relied on one another to further their dominance on other culture and government, this occurred during the Frankish Gaul, who were the Merovingians, reign in forcefully bringing the Western empire one unifying country rather than having sectors of rulers. However, the unifying nations crumble after Clovis death, the separation of these nation was once again united with the help of the Carolingians, a family who are aristocrats, during the eight century. The Carolingians could not have united the crumble remnants of the Merovingians without the help of the church’s influence on the people; Charles Martel (ca. 714-741), leader of the Carolingians, increase his influence by defeating the attacking Muslims making Martel “the most powerful man in Frankland but also the leader of the most powerful force in Latin Christendom”(312). The successor of Charles Martel was his son Pepin III (ca. 751-768), he strengthen religious influence over the government by augmenting ties with the church in which open unnecessary doors. One of the doors vested the church to appoint kings as rulers by the grace of “god”, in the sense that god gave the pope the right to appoint rulers meaning the kings are under the control of the pope. Later, the struggle of dominance begins between government and religion. During the time of Charlemagne inherited the throne, his ambitions were to have fuse the Roman, Germanic, and Christian elements into a

Empires were not simply created from a day to another. There is huge number of factors that contribute to the development of an empire. The history of the world has seen a tremendous number of empires form. However, it has also seen a great amount of them fall apart and eventually disappear. An empire can fall into one of the two paths, developing completely into a stable and long-lasting empire that has a powerful army, a strong central government, and freedom of religion or turning into a short-lasting empire and collapsing.

To summarize, the rules were not really for common people and the empire so could bring many horrible incidents and adverse effects to the society. Life of the rich and poor were totally different, and society were messed up. Most of all, there were specially many negative aspects and terrible incidents during Dark Age than other empires, and it lasted for about 800 of years, which was really long period of time.

When reading about the Old World and the New World kingdoms and empires in Flannery and Marcus’ text, Creation of Inequality, there is a clear connection between those who hold positions of power and their deep role within the civilizations’ ideology. From an analysis of four societies, Zapotec, Late Uruk, Inca, and Egyptian, power and ideology are seemingly inseparable from one another. When a ruler claims divinity they tether themselves to the ideology of the state and this produces the main similarity of the two worlds which is the way in which the ruler often shares a certain degree of power with the high priests.

Historically, all Empires that have based their existence on subjugation and expansionism have collapsed. From the Roman Emperor Nero, who threw bread to the crowds, to the United States today, in which 46 million of its inhabitants rely on government food stamps to feed themselves. This is the nature of Empires in decline, in which history has a habit of repeating itself.

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