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| An Empire is a large political entity where one group of people gains the political, economic and military muscle to unify a bunch of other groups of people under it's banner and either lord over them or intergrate them into a cohesive whole. Empire is dirived from the Latin word ''Imperium'' which means Authority and more specifically the authority to command numerous roman legions.
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| == Notable Real Life Empires ==
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| *The Neo Assyrian Empire (an Empire which had in its foundation in a belief that if their army ever lost a battle the world would end, unsurprisingly it lasted until slightly after they lost their first major battle)
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| *The Achaemenid Empire
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| *The [[Roman Empire]]
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| *The [[Chinese Empire]]
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| *The Mongolian Empire
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| *The Aztec Empire
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| *The Inca Empire
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| *The Ottoman Empire
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| *The Empire of Japan
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| *The Mughal Empire
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| *The Tsardom of Russia
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| *The British Empire (The Empire on which the Sun never sets)
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| *The French Empire (''Vive le Napoleon!'')
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| *The German Empire
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| == Notable Fictional Empires ==
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| *The First Galactic Empire (Star Wars)
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| *[[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)]]
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