Empire -- Ancient History Encyclopedia

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2334 BC - 2279 BC

Sargon of Akkad (the Great) reigns over Mesopotamia and thus creates the world's first empire.
1504 BC - 1492 BC

Egyptian empire reaches greatest extent under Tuthmosis I.
1500 BC

Egyptian empire extends to the Euphrates.
1350 BC - 1250 BC

The Hittite empire is at its peak.
188 BC

Maximum extent of the Pergamon Empire after Apamea peace.
12 Jul 100 BC - 15 Mar 44 BC

Life of Gaius Julius Caesar, founder of the Roman Empire.

Empire Books

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy...

Adrienne Mayor

Princeton University Press (28 September 2009)

Price: $19.77

The Twelve Caesars

Suetonius

Penguin Classics (18 December 2007)

Price: $10.20

Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome

Anonymous

Princeton University Press (24 March 2010)

Price: $18.45

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

Adrian Goldsworthy

Yale University Press (12 May 2009)

Price: $21.45

The Last Days of the Incas

Kim MacQuarrie

Simon & Schuster (05 June 2008)

Price: $12.20

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Definition

“Supreme and extensive political dominion; esp. that exercised by an 'emperor’ (in the earlier sense) or by a sovereign state over its dependencies. Paramount influence, absolute sway, supreme command or control. Owing partly to historical circumstances, and partly to the sense of the etymological connexion between the two words, 'empire’ has always had the specific sense 'rule or territory of an Emperor’ as well as the wider meaning which it derives from its etymology: Latin, imperium, related to imperare, 'to command’, whence imperator, 'Emperor’.” (Oxford English Dictionary, Volume III, Oxford University Press, 1933).

Examples of Empires in the ancient world include those of Sumeria, Babylonia, Assyria, that of the Hittites, the Egyptian, the Persian, the Macedonian and, most famously, the Roman.

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