Eurasian Empires

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Throughout time, different civilizations arose and fell. These deeply impacted the shape of the world thereafter. Taking a closer look at the major empires help us understand the change process better. Some of them started small and then grew bigger, others arose after a long fall, but all had the dream of expansion and leaving a legacy behind.

The Persian Empire used the Babylonian and Assyrian model as their example to build their own civilization. The empire tremendously grew by conquering many lands between Egypt and India to encompass a wide spectrum of religions, cultures, and languages. It was ruled by an absolute monarchy. The monarch exercised full authority on the whole empire and dominated through an intricate administrative system of officials and local authorities. He also had a spy system to constantly report important events back to him as soon as they happened. The empire supported local religious cults in order to gain the favor of the invaded lands. They were also remarkable in embracing any new thing from these countries and making it their own. The monarch had a very advanced postal system that could carry messages on horses across this huge empire with great efficiency. The wealth and power of this kingdom was shown in its elaborate palaces, monuments, audience halls, and carvings. In comparison, the Greek civilization was made up of small, competing city-states with a population only a fraction of the Persian one. High mountains and steep valleys split the Greek empire into small independent city-states; in contrast to the Persian Empire which was a one and united entity. Since there wasn’t much diversity in these city-states they all shared the same religion and language. These independent nations di...

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...ent collection of towns and cities. Although small in size, it had a surprising range of ethnic culture and linguistic diversity. In contrast to the Chinese empire, which reflected a single common culture and belief, the Indian Empire failed to have a centralized government because of its diversity. The only known large scale political system in Indian is the the Mauryan Empire which grouped all but the southern tip of the subcontinent.

As we can see, the world’s civilizations went through a lot of modifications and changes along the years, being also affected by the geography of the area where it arose and the ethnic configuration of the population that lived there. We can see more clearly now how the current civilization became what it is and we learned many lessons from the short falls of the past civilizations which can help us move forward in a better way.

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