What Makes An Empire So Successful?

One of the biggest empires of all time fell to a small group fleeing from the East. Was this fate, was it destiny, or was it just a bunch of mistakes made by Rome? Rome, which eventually became one of the world’s greatest empires was started around 750 BC. At first it was a peaceful republic, but that eventually changed. Caesar started turning Rome into a powerhouse, taking everything and everyone down. Not all good things last for long though. Others may say that natural disasters were the main reason of Rome’s fall, but really it was due to military mistakes and political instability. The military messed up alot. They were getting lazy and were not motivated. Since they did not want to fight, they lost many battles. Rome’s fall was also due

In its time, the Roman Empire was the largest empire the world had ever seen. The fact that the Romans were able to control and obtain an empire of this size was due to plenty of factors, but the main ones are the Roman army, the Roman roads, Pax Romana, the borders of the empire, and the benefits of the barbarians who became ruled by the empire. On their own, these factors wouldn’t do much at all, but such a combination brought great success.

IEP10 #36 Rebecca Darius the Great Imagine frequent warfare is ongoing in your country, and everyday hundreds of thousands of people are dying. This is what happened in Persia, the largest empire ever established around 500 BCE. No leaders could govern the entire empire, but there was one person out of many who reinstated order in Persia. His name was Darius I. Darius created a permanent army composed of paid soldiers, and brought political stability to Persia through the division of land into regions and the development of the Royal Roads.

Cyrus the Great’s Empire is the largest empire of its time. Its lands consists of Southwest Asia, Asia Minor, and parts of Central Asia. The empire also consists of the skilled Persian army, which is well organized and loyal; 10,000 soldiers were part of the group of Immortals, and some more were part of the group of cavalries. Because Cyrus the Great let the conquered people keep their own customs, they were very unlikely to rebel, and became loyal to Cyrus the

The Assyrians never developed effective tactics for controlling larger empires, having progressively less control the farther away from the core the population was, never less, the Assyrians Used exceptional techniques for controlling and expanding their empire utilizing all citizens for both their wealth and labor to expand and improve extremely quickly

Similar to the Roman Empire the Persian Empire stretched across vast lands without any serious rivalry. At the height of the empire it stretched across, not only, Asia, from the Aegean to the Indus River, but also included part of the continent of Africa. We get the word, Persia, from the Greek word Parsa meaning, “Above reproach”. The Persians unlike most other Empires would be ruled under a benevolent ruler. This would bring a large amount of cultural diffusion to the Empire. The empires history is separated into three historical periods: Old Persia (600-300 B.C.E), Middle Persia (300-800 B.C.E.) and modern Persia (800-Present). The height or the Empire was reached around 500 B.C.E. (Ancient and Medieval History

The Roman and Mongolian empires were among the largest contiguous nations in the history of humanity. The provinces of their empires stretched across vast swaths of the globe, and their dominion included a diverse variety of cultures and people. These nations were able to accomplish this because of certain advantages given to them by their cultures and value systems. The Roman and Mongolian armies used superior technology, combined with military and political stratagems, to conquer and rule extremely large, organized, and wealthy empires despite their incredibly heterogeneous cultures and systems of conduct. Both of these superior military forces exemplified similarities in strength, organization, and higher military strategies, but their differences concerning weapons, uniforms, and cultural values presented a stark contrast from each other and how they performed conquering and governing their empires.

This paper is going to be about Rome, and how successful they were. Now Rome wasn’t just the best society for no reason. It took hard work from military to farming to government etc. the list could go on for forever. Their military was one of the best to ever walk the earth. They fought off invasions, won land back over from other countries, and even invaded countries their selves. They were probably one of the most feared armies ever. Now where can a strong army come from without a strong government? The answer is simple; not very far at all. The Romans ran on a republic government. That meant that the citizens elected their leaders, much like we do today. In a way Rome is almost exactly what we are today; same government, feared army, and we are falling apart around the same time that Rome did.

The Persian Empire began in 500 B.C.E. It was the world’s largest empire with diverse population of around 35 to 50 million people. The ancient Persians were the descendants of nomadic people, Indo-Europeans; They migrated from Central Asia in the east to the Iranian plateau. The empire began with the conquest by Cyrus the great. The empire ruled by the monarchs.

Between approximately 509 BCE and the third century CE the Roman empire continually expanded and became one of the largest in history. While this expansion was due to many reasons, not the least of which was greed, to a great extent it was made possible because of Rome's overwhelming military and its combination of a democratic and republic government. (Lee) (Ferril)

The powerful and well known Roman army was another key factor in maintaining the empire. The Roman army was large, well equipped, well trained, disciplined and skilled military force that was stationed throughout the empire to prevent uprisings and crush rebellion. Military training was a very important and arduous affair in the Roman Empire. It was essential for each soldier to achieve a high level of skill in fighting and using their weapons. They also had to march 30 kilometers 3 times a month wearing 20kg armor, do drills twice a day, learn to build camps, swim, mount and ride a horse and fight mock battles. The Roman army was quite ruthless when it came to crushing rebellion. They did not hesitate to hurt or even slaughter the people who went against the Roman rule.

The Persian Empire is considered one of the most successful empires at its time. What made the Persian Empire so unique and successful, was because of how sophisticated there government was. Like other empires the Persian Empire had a religion. This made the people of Persia freely think about their ruler and help the empire out in any way. The Persian empire compared to preceding empires, (such as the Assyrian Empire etc) were relatively less oppressive and abusive to their people. This prevented the empire from collapsing that easily. Which is one reason why they advanced their rule for another 200 years (1,429 years in Dynasty rule (1979)).

Francis Schaeffer (n.d.) believes that the Roman Empire collapsed because it’s governing style lacked core fundamental standards. The empires growth was based on winning battles, seizing a great portion of the adversary’s land, turning them into slave workers, and military personnel (Rawls, 2016, p. 163). Indisputably, Rome’s expansionism techniques, inhumane treatment to others, and disregard to humankind eventually led to its decline. Unfortunately, the governmental body and citizens were not unified in their moral or ethical cultural values. Rome became a chaotic, every man for themselves society which made it difficult for the State to control undesirable behavior. In addition, Christianity also had an influence of Rome’s culmination, there was religious toleration by the emperor and the state, under one condition, that

The impact of expansion on the core Persian Empire was generally looked at and received in a positive manner. Increasing populations created more cities and more job opportunities allowed many Persians the luxury of making more money as the empire grew. The bulk of the empire was still mostly farmers, however. One of the largest influences on the core empire was Zoroastrianism. This was advocated by both Cyrus and Darius, Darius used it in order to claim divine right to kingship. This new religion spread very quickly through high-ranking Persians (Bentley and Ziegler, 174). Zoroastrianism preached for people to enjoy this life but to live well for the afterlife (Stearns, Zoroastrianism: The Major Persian Religion, 43-45). This allowed people to have fun in this life and still be able to have eternal bliss; when people are having fun and happy they are less likely to challenge their rulers.

Many components have made the Roman Empire successful, one major component that made the Roman Empire successful is the geographical location of Rome itself. Rome is located on the Italian peninsula, it is located on seven hills surrounded by a mountain range and lies at the mouth of the Tiber River. The seven hills and the Alps mountain range, have provided excellent protection and military advantages. The Alps acted as a roadblock to prevent incoming outside threats to Rome and it gave the Romans an advantage as they could spot upcoming enemies as the enemies have to slowly find their way up and the Romans could plan a counter-attack or defend themselves beforehand. The Alps and the seven