Empire Life Cycle

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Introduction We will be defining the term “empire” and establishing the meaning behind the term. We will establish if the United States is or is not an empire by using historic facts to distinguish which is the case. We will also discuss specific instances that the United States picked up characteristics of an empire. Empire by definition is a multiple state under one banner or one authority with multiple levels of government which are four levels of the state and the fifth level is from the empire (Carr, 2016). A empire has usually has one focal point of power being an emperor (Murrin, 2016) Empires are established when one or more states conquer it’s neighboring states and become of that empire that largely eventually ends due the inconvenience of fighting far from home or has met a wall with a fellow state or country (Carr, 2016). Eventually the empire goes into decline and breaks up into multiple states at the end of the empires life cycle (Carr, 2016). This being said there are five stages in relation to a empire’s life cycle. These stages consist regionalization which would fall to independence, abilities manifested, and self-expression which this is done within a five decades (Murrin, 2016). Ascension to …show more content…

The German Empire was established through channels of traditional cabinet diplomacy led by Prussia and the North German Confederation alongside rulers from other states such as Hesse-Darmstadt, Bavaria, Baden, and Württemberg (Britannica, 2017) Prussia was the largest state by occupying over 60% of the lands and population, remained in charge until the German’s empires end after the war of 1918 (Britannica,

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