What Causes Empires to Rise and Fall?
Conquering a huge territory is difficult, but could keeping control of it be even harder? An empire is a political system in which a ruling state or power controls extensive territories and different peoples. The central question is not simply how an empire grows, but how political authority can stretch across distance while managing power, resources and loyalty.
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