Thus this quite simple category appears in its intensity historically only in the most developed conditions of society. In no way does it permeate all economic relations. For example, in the Roman Empire even at the height of its developmeat the base remained taxes in kind and deliveries in ...
23 percent of the world's population at that time. It remains the largest empire in human history and at the peak of its power in 1920, it covered an astonishing 13.71 million square miles - that's close to a quarter of the world's land area. At its height, it was described as "t...
Also, the rise of the British Empire and the growth of global trade served not only to introduce English to the world, but to introduce words into English. Hindi, and the other languages of the Indian subcontinent, provided many words, such as pundit, shampoo, pajamas, and juggernaut. Virtu...
The Dutch Empire in Intellectual Historydoi:10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10343Andrew FitzmauriceOpen Journals
The Ottoman Empire was at its height for about 150 years. It had at that point, however, reached the limits beyond which it could not easily project its power. One reason for this was that much of the Ottoman army, like Medaeval armies, was still a matter of temporary annual levies. ...
Britain's territories were spread throughout the world, its territories were always on the daylight side at any given time.In that sense, the British Empire was known as "the empire on which the sun never sets" (日不落帝国), as the Sun was always shining on at least one of its ...
for the heir presumptive was Joseph’s brother, the archduke Charles, and no English or Dutch government would continue a war to put the Spanish empire under the control of the prince who would also be the ruler (asCharles VI) of theHoly Roman Empireand the hereditary possessions of the Ha...
British Empire Western colonialism Show More South African War,warfought from October 11, 1899, to May 31, 1902, betweenGreat Britainand the twoBoer(Afrikaner) republics—theSouth African Republic(Transvaal) and theOrange Free State—resulting in British victory. ...
[18] Its terms ensured Dutch independence from Spain, awarded some autonomy to the various German princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and granted Sweden seats on the Imperial Diet and territories controlling the mouths of the Oder, Elbe, and Weser Rivers.[19] France, however, profited most ...
If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times. But her Majesty did all by halves, and by petty invasions taught the Spaniard how to defend...