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    The Byzantine Empire

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    The Byzantine Empire‚ in western Asia and southeastern Europe‚ expanded into eastern Europe. The Byzantine Empire‚ with territory in the Balkans‚ the Middle East‚ and the eastern Mediterranean‚ maintained very high levels of political‚ economic‚ and cultural life between 500 and 1450 C.E. The empire continued many Roman patterns and spread its Orthodox Christian civilization through most of eastern Europe‚ Belarus‚ Ukraine‚ and Russia. Catholic Christianity‚ without an imperial center‚ spread in

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    Age Of Empires

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    Analysis (15%) Name: Sheung Yau Chung Student Number: 301236546 1. Age of Empires II: The Conquerors‚ published by Microsoft in 2000‚ is the second game in the Age of Empires series. 2. My favorite definition of a game written by Greg Costikyan: “A game is a form of art in which players make decisions in order to manage resources through game tokens in pursuit of a goal”. His definition of a game directly applies to Age of Empires II because player’s decisions in manipulating tokens (the game tokens

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    The Phoenician Empire

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    invention of the alphabet to spread throughout Eurasia. The Phoenician Empire continued to evolve until its eventual incorporation into the Persian and Macedonian Empires‚ around 400 BCE. <br> <br>Phoenicia is an ancient region lying on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Empire peaked at around 1000 BCE‚ and developed until around 700 BCE. Phoenicia‚ now known as Lebanon‚ Syria‚ and Israel‚ was naturally isolated from other civilizations by the Lebanon Mountains in the east‚ and the great

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    Byzantine Empire

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    I chose the Byzantine Empire because of their overwhelming culture and wars with Muslims over the years. They were originally part of the Roman Empire until it was divided. Much of their people were Christians‚ who were also Greek-speaking. The Byzantine Empire existed for more than a thousand years. The empire declined in the fifteenth century‚ with the Ottomans conquering much of their land. The display below is in a scene within a casual living room of a family that may have lived in this

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    Mongol Empire

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    The Mongol Empire (Mongolian:About this sound listen (help·info) Mongol-yn Ezent Güren; Cyrillic: Монголын эзэнт гүрэн‚ in Russian chronicles also Horde - Russian: Орда) existed during the 13th and 14th centuries‚ and was the largest contiguous land empire in human history.[1] Beginning in the Central Asian steppes‚ it eventually stretched from Central Europe to the Sea of Japan‚ covering Siberia in the north and extending southward into Indochina the Indian subcontinent‚ the Iranian plateau‚ and

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    Persian Empire

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    The essay about the Persian Empire The particular history-achaemenid The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). Persia’s earliest known kingdom was the proto-Elamite Empire‚ followed by the Medes; but it is the Achaemenid Empire that emerged under Cyrus the Great that is usually the earliest to be called "Persian. The first record of the Persians comes from an Assyrian inscription from c. 844 BC that calls them

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    Mongol Empire

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    The Mongol Empire quickly covered the largest territory the world had ever seen. The Mongols’ main strategy in acquiring land was conquering by force‚ but they also relied on more peaceful methods and their tightly-knit political and social organization. The Mongols attacked villages until complete destruction using their land-based military techniques (docs 1‚2‚3‚7 and 8). Sometimes‚ they gave civilizations a chance to submit to terms and avoid destructions (docs 6 and 9). He Mongols’ divisions

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    The Roman Empire

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    The Roman Empire was the period of the ancient Roman society. Their form of government was Roman Republic. The Roman civilization was located around the Mediterranean in Europe‚ Africa‚ and Asia. The first emperor of Rome was Augustus. He established a strong military. There were two different societies in the Roman Empire‚ the East and the West. The Eastern people spoke Latin‚ and the Western people spoke Greek. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty. He was born on

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    Mayan Empires

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    Unlike the Han and Roman empires‚ the Mayans cannot be considered an empire because they lacked a centralized‚ state-level government‚ had relatively low peace and prosperity‚ and declined more from environmental issues than internal issues. One of the necessary preconditions for the rise of an empire is a state-level government; however‚ the Mayans did not fulfill this requirement and had numerous city-states. The Mayans’ political system was divided into rural communities and urban centers with

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    Byzantine Empire

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    Constantine came into power in 306 CE. He made the Greek city of Byzantium the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. He renamed the city Constantinople and ruled it for 30 years. Under his rule the empire would thrive and become powerful. Constantine also embraced Christianity. The peak of the Byzantine Empire occurred during the Justinian Dynasty. When Justinian became emperor‚ the Empire gained more territory and would reach the peak of its wealth. Justinian established many reforms. One major one

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