politics

definition of empire

An Empire is a state that observes a domain over extensive territories or, although it does not formally possess them as part of its territory, exerts a notable influence on other states that respond to it politically.. Meanwhile, the executive responsibility of directing these states falls on the figure known as emperor.

But of course, this meaning, at the present time of the XXI century in which we live, is practically obsolete, because although in reality there are several states that exercise effective political, economic and cultural dominance over other territories (colonies), such is the In the case of nations like the United States, France or Spain, nobody speaks directly of the United States as an empire, for example. Meanwhile, what did happen a few years ago to this part is that a negative connotation is attributed to the term of empire and again, again soup, the United States as an example, is the country that according to many best represented what known as empire or imperialism, which would be the ideology that the empire promotes and that speaks of the pretension that a state has to expand its power to other territories, without looking at or paying attention to cultural differences, language, ideology, or just wishes, but the only thing that will matter and try to make effective is to bend them and then seize them.

One of the most important and extensive empires that took place in the history of mankind is the Roman Empire, which developed in times of classical antiquity and sustained an autocratic form of government, which assumes that the will of the emperor is the supreme voice. of the law and to which all under this must submit. This reached its maximum extent during the reign of Trajan and ranged from the Atlantic Ocean to the west to the shores of the Black Sea, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to the east and from the Sahara Desert to the south to the lands on the shores of the rivers Rhine and Danube and the border with Caledonia to the north, reaching an incredible area of ​​6.14 million square kilometers.

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