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Anyone outside the island has to deal with the competing empires that seek to dominate each other in a series of escalating conflicts.
Source: https://www.cbr.com/worst-anime-worlds-for-people-with-no-powers/
Both the German and Austro- Hungarian empires were dismembered and the Ottoman Empire simply disappeared.
Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/aftermath-of-the-great-war/
But many of these empires possessed a common vulnerability, Barfield finds: They were essentially built to control agrarian societies and were unable to adjust to the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/books/review/military-history-books.html
But time passes and empires fade.
Source: https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/whos-going-to-play-shortstop-for-the-atlanta-braves
Governments have toppled and empires have fallen at the behest of a chain of events which were triggered by a series of small individual incidents directed over time toward a common goal.
Source: https://carillonregina.com/advocacy-no-act-too-slight-no-step-too-small/
Having acquired stupendous wealth and built economic empires stronger than their states, some of these governors now recruit the poor to truncate any opposing force challenging their dominance.
Source: https://leadership.ng/when-democracy-becomes-uncertain/
History has seen many empires collapse, but only once has a nuclear-armed superpower disappeared from the world map overnight.
Indigenous-imperial relations explain the distinctions among Europe’s American colonies, several of which, including colonial New Mexico, were a part of European empires longer than they have been a part of the United States.
Source: https://time.com/6274071/us-history-indigenous-americans/
It includes hundreds of different nationalities and it is located in an area which for centuries was and is the domain of interest and conflict between superpowers: British (now the USA), Russian and Chinese empires.
Many fans bristle against elements of their favorite media empires that feel as if they're "for kids."
Source: https://gamerant.com/ant-man-wasp-quantumania-modok-look/
She tells him, sobs catching in her throat, “You watched empires rise and fall, cheered the gladiators in Rome, sailed across oceans to new worlds while you fed on kings and princes and popes.”
The civilian Minister and the civilian bureaucrats were not only exposing and uprooting the network of companies owned by the Islamists forced out of power in 2019, but also the tentacles of the commercial empires owned by senior Generals.
Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/21/sudanese-revolution-enters-a-pivotal-stage/
These are lands to which the Jewish people has extensive religious and historical connections, lands that were controlled most recently by the Ottoman and British empires, then by the Kingdom of Jordan, and then, after the Six Day War of 1967, by Israel.
Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/04/10/the-real-palestinian-territory-new-york-times-land/
The second was signed and ratified by literal empires… violent, genocidal, continent-occupying, forced labour-exploiting cartels, drafting and affirming a charter on ‘Human Rights’.
Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/07/the-new-international-economic-order/
They even had various empires back then that had sort of a club of the great powers, that you had to be a significant country to get into.
This differential treatment of Ukraine vs. Finland/Sweden legitimizes “spheres of influence,” a notion that seems appropriate for the age of empires and not for the modern era.
Source: https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2023/03/20/open-letter-to-jeffrey-sachs-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/
This occurs far less in the first-generation founders of family business empires.
Source: https://business.inquirer.net/426481/whats-the-no-1-thing-that-makes-ceos-successful
WASHINGTON : Around 1200 BC, human civilization experienced a harrowing setback with the near-simultaneous demise or diminishment of several important empires in the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean region - an event called the Bronze Age collapse.
Wolfenbarger, a former investment banker at JPMorgan and Allianz, writes in a new article for the Mises Institute that throughout history, all empires have ultimately failed, and the US likely won’t be an exception.