Empire and Communications

The 20th century has witnessed dramatic developments in the history of media communications as well as human society. During the first half of the last century, electronic media such as the telegraph, radio and television to name a few were invented and became prevalent. Afterwards, the internet came into being and developed at an unprecedented rate to the point where it is now widely accepted that human history has entered into an information age. As claimed by a number of scholars, the appearance

Mongol Empire expanded to cover 9 million square miles. This empire spanned from Korea to Belarus and down to Persia. Genghis Khan established this vast empire, which was later led by his less successful children. The Mongol Empire lasted from 1206 AD to 1368 AD, during which time it expanded to become the world's largest empire. This vast empire began as a collection of nomadic tribes whose sole goal was to expand so that they could acquire more land and spread their empire. The Mongol Empires spread

The Fall of Roman Empire A empire can only last so long that it eventually falls apart. Roman Empire is known to be one of the largest empire to ever exist. It is unbelievable to human eyes, how far it expanded. It was stretched from Africa to Europe towards the Middle East. It was only possible through roman military power expansion. They found it easy to conquer their neighbor and take their resources. Because the empire was big, romans found it hard to communicate and organize. Later on, it was

united the largest empire in the world history. They did this in many ways, some positive and some negative, using smart tactics to make their way to ruling the empire. Nevertheless, the Mongols had a more positive impact than negative by influencing transportation and communication, economic diversity, and politics in the world around them for many years. According to Document 6, the Mongols improved transportation and communication. Improvement of transportation and communication, both play a massive

The Mongol empire was the world’s largest empire. The Mongol’s practices and beliefs had both positive and negative effects. The large Mongolian empire promoted communication and diversity; however, despite this positive effect, the Mongolian empire housed the deaths of many innocent people. In addition to this, the Mongol empire fostered various religions, but enforced the same practices on everyone, no matter what religion they may follow; this brought order amongst the Mongolian empire. The Mongolian

system increased communications and lessened technological and cultural gaps between societies on different continents. This early form of globalization spread goods, ideas, and people to new places. For example, long-distance trade caused Chinese inventions, like gunpowder, printing, and the compass, to reach Europe for the first time. The Mongol’s influence over Eurasia during the thirteenth and fourteenth century was one of the main factors led to those increased global communications. This essay argues

many times, but managed to take those who conquered them and use their influence to attain new areas of knowledge. The legacy the Mongolian empires were caused by various approaches, some of which were war, trade, and reputation. The impact of distinct empires caused the Chinese to expand through others nations’ expertise. The Mongols created an empire through various ways. One of which was sending out assaults in many directions. Genghis Khan, the Mongolian leader, connected the nomadic clans

Communication is the imparting or exchanging of information or news, whether it is orally or written. In 15th century BCE Phoenicia, Phoenicians created their alphabet from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet after straying from their original cuneiform script. The Phoenician alphabet was the first alphabet widely-used as it spread beyond the Mediterranean. Many other languages’ origin can be traced back to this very alphabet. Another example of communication is the postal service installed in 540 BCE by

kingdoms. The constant source of wealth in the empire was due to many factors such as the trade concessions on the Atlantic coast and the need for salt and gold that strengthened the economy. The trade concessions on the Atlantic coast was a form of taxing system in order to trade with the West African empire (WHFUA Mali & Songhai, 1). Due to the fact that the Mali empire had a variety of resources that other empires required such as salt and gold the empire took advantage of that and therefore taxed

Canadian scholars Harold Innis and Marshall. Though this is a technologically determinist way of looking at communication, the different modes of communication (media) – oral, literate, and electronic –influence society through the way we store knowledge, through the manner in which we share knowledge, and through the way we connect with each other socially. First, the oral mode of communication influenced society through the way we store knowledge. In an oral society, particular members of society