The Dynastic Cycle

Throughout world civilization, numerous empires have dominated geographical areas with powerful military forces, effective rulers and strong economy’s. However, majority of the worlds empires have declined after centuries of dominance. The most significant similarity in all of the worlds empires is the greed of expansion. History has proven this significance to result in the falling of great empires. When empires fall, new ones are established and this is the process known as the dynastic cycle. The dynastic cycle is based off the different dynasties that once ruled China, however, the process can be used with the rise, fall and replacement of other empires. The dynastic cycle has occurred in the once dominant Ottoman empire, that dominated in Europe and the Middle East for nearly 500 years and also the Russian empire (1721-1917). The occurance of the dynastic cycle in these two dynastys was similar and differnet in many ways. Both empires were

History has proven that every great empire has eventually collapsed and comparing the United States to the Russians and Ottomans should show that the United States is far from a decline. The Ottomans declined due to the failure to modernize with their European opponents and the Russians declined after the people came together to establish a constitutional form of government. The United States would not fail for those same reasons, at least not for another couple of centuries. Over the past hundred years the United States have been tested numerous times through similar situations that caused previous empires to fall and the United States has prevailed and grown stronger because of those hardships. The United States is a rising empire and should take the history of declining empires into consideration for every major decision that is made to prevent a possible decline in the