Great Empires: Legends, Leaders, and Warriors
Book Details
Author(s)Go Entertain
PublisherGo Entertain
ISBN / ASINB00MRPKQXC
ISBN-13978B00MRPKQX2
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
*Includes pictures
*Profiles the important people and events for multiple empires, including the British, Spanish, Viking, Greek, and Roman empires, and more
*Includes a table of contents
Imperialism and the motivations behind it are a controversial and complex subject. But what powers the formation of an empire?
Is it the fundamental urge to strike out into uncharted territory to discover “brave new worlds� The sheer need for more territory? The desire to spread cultural, political, and religious influences? Or a straightforward lust for conquest, dominance, and plunder?
From the age of antiquity, the desire of powerful civilizations to enlarge their territory and spread their influence has inflicted death, destruction, and oppressive regimes on countless millions around the globe and deprived them of their rightful territory. Empires are also frequently underpinned by slavery.
But empires have also served to open up new worlds, promote new cultures, and led to vibrant interaction between different civilizations. In some cases, imperial expansion has begun almost innocently, as voyages of exploration and trading networks led to settlement, colonization, and then conquest. The degree of control exerted over various imperial possessions could also vary enormously: some might be allowed to practice self-government while others remained firmly under the imperial yoke and were mercilessly robbed of their land and wealth.
A fascinating accompaniment to the documentary series Engineering an Empire, hosted by actor and academic Peter Weller, this booklet examines aspects of imperial rule from Ancient Egypt right up to the twilight days of the British Empire.
It looks at how the wealth of the Ancient Egyptians enabled them to expand their territory; at how Ancient Greece spread its influence and became the cradle of Western civilization; how the mighty Roman Empire evolved into its cultural and spiritual successor, the Byzantine Empire; how the Vikings established their empire through trading, raiding, and daring voyages of exploration; how the Mongols created the biggest empire in history in terms of land mass; how Spain became the dominant imperial power and destroyed the Aztec civilization, and how the British Empire came to rule the waves.
It probes the lives of the often ruthless but visionary leaders, legends and warriors who helped to forge some of the greatest empires on earth—the legendary pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and his imperial successors, Constantine the Great, Eric the Red and Leif Erikson, King Canute, Genghis Khan, Christopher Columbus, Hernando Cortés, Captain James Cook, Clive of India, and Napoleon Bonaparte. It also looks at those who dared to oppose rampant imperial expansion, from Boudicca and Alfred the Great to Sir Francis Drake and Admiral Lord Nelson.
*Profiles the important people and events for multiple empires, including the British, Spanish, Viking, Greek, and Roman empires, and more
*Includes a table of contents
Imperialism and the motivations behind it are a controversial and complex subject. But what powers the formation of an empire?
Is it the fundamental urge to strike out into uncharted territory to discover “brave new worlds� The sheer need for more territory? The desire to spread cultural, political, and religious influences? Or a straightforward lust for conquest, dominance, and plunder?
From the age of antiquity, the desire of powerful civilizations to enlarge their territory and spread their influence has inflicted death, destruction, and oppressive regimes on countless millions around the globe and deprived them of their rightful territory. Empires are also frequently underpinned by slavery.
But empires have also served to open up new worlds, promote new cultures, and led to vibrant interaction between different civilizations. In some cases, imperial expansion has begun almost innocently, as voyages of exploration and trading networks led to settlement, colonization, and then conquest. The degree of control exerted over various imperial possessions could also vary enormously: some might be allowed to practice self-government while others remained firmly under the imperial yoke and were mercilessly robbed of their land and wealth.
A fascinating accompaniment to the documentary series Engineering an Empire, hosted by actor and academic Peter Weller, this booklet examines aspects of imperial rule from Ancient Egypt right up to the twilight days of the British Empire.
It looks at how the wealth of the Ancient Egyptians enabled them to expand their territory; at how Ancient Greece spread its influence and became the cradle of Western civilization; how the mighty Roman Empire evolved into its cultural and spiritual successor, the Byzantine Empire; how the Vikings established their empire through trading, raiding, and daring voyages of exploration; how the Mongols created the biggest empire in history in terms of land mass; how Spain became the dominant imperial power and destroyed the Aztec civilization, and how the British Empire came to rule the waves.
It probes the lives of the often ruthless but visionary leaders, legends and warriors who helped to forge some of the greatest empires on earth—the legendary pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and his imperial successors, Constantine the Great, Eric the Red and Leif Erikson, King Canute, Genghis Khan, Christopher Columbus, Hernando Cortés, Captain James Cook, Clive of India, and Napoleon Bonaparte. It also looks at those who dared to oppose rampant imperial expansion, from Boudicca and Alfred the Great to Sir Francis Drake and Admiral Lord Nelson.
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