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*The Mughal Empire | *The Mughal Empire | ||
*The Tsardom of Russia | *The Tsardom of Russia | ||
*The British Empire (The Empire on which the Sun | *The British Empire ([https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/ The Empire on which the Sun has yet to set]) | ||
*The French Empire (''Vive le Napoleon!'') | *The French Empire (''Vive le Napoleon!'') | ||
*The German Empire | *The German Empire | ||
== Notable Fictional Empires == | == Notable Fictional Empires == | ||
*The First Galactic Empire (Star Wars) | *The First Galactic Empire (Star Wars) |
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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.
Notable Real Life Empires
- 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)
- The Achaemenid Empire
- The Roman Empire
- The Chinese Empire
- The Mongolian Empire
- The Aztec Empire
- The Inca Empire
- The Ottoman Empire
- The Empire of Japan
- The Mughal Empire
- The Tsardom of Russia
- The British Empire (The Empire on which the Sun has yet to set)
- The French Empire (Vive le Napoleon!)
- The German Empire
Notable Fictional Empires
- The First Galactic Empire (Star Wars)
- The Galactic Empire (Issac Asimov's Foundation series)
- The Galactic Empire (Legend of the Galactic Heroes, this name is fairly common)
- The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)