Why Did Empires Of The Ancient World Rise And Fall?
Why did empires of the ancient world rise and fall?
According to the statement of Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel in their book The Dynamics of Ancient Empires, the first empire we have known in the world “took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 B.C.E” (Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel. 2009). From then on, a large number of imperial powers with a growing share of humanity sprung up in the next 2500 years. Among these, there are “four major powers, the Roman, Persian, Kushan and Han Dynasty which ruled perhaps two-thirds all the people on Earth two thousand years ago” (Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel. 2009). Although these empires were all in flourish for a period, they went die at the end. Now, there comes out a question that why did these empires experience the pattern of rising and falling.
On one hand, internal conflicts causes the falling of an empire. Expanding territory is the first thing that …show more content…
It has mentioned in the first paragraph, there were a large number of empires existing in the ancient world. Every empire would like to expand their territory and conflicts between empires were inevitable. In the year of 334 B.C., Persian meets inevitable extinction after fierce war with strong Macedonia led by Alexander the Great. Besides this, the aggression target of Macedonia also includes Egypt and Babylonia. To the contrary, Macedonia is also the target of other empires, for example, Roman. The kingdom of Macedonia clashed with the rising power of the Roman Republic during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. In the year of 323 B.C., the kingdom of Macedonia was defeated and followed the Roman rule. At the same time, the Romans took charge of them and named it as the Roman province of Macedonia (Wikipedia). Just like Macedonia, the Roman Republic was finally defeated by The Ottoman Empire in the year of
According to the statement of Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel in their book The Dynamics of Ancient Empires, the first empire we have known in the world “took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 B.C.E” (Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel. 2009). From then on, a large number of imperial powers with a growing share of humanity sprung up in the next 2500 years. Among these, there are “four major powers, the Roman, Persian, Kushan and Han Dynasty which ruled perhaps two-thirds all the people on Earth two thousand years ago” (Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel. 2009). Although these empires were all in flourish for a period, they went die at the end. Now, there comes out a question that why did these empires experience the pattern of rising and falling.
On one hand, internal conflicts causes the falling of an empire. Expanding territory is the first thing that …show more content…
It has mentioned in the first paragraph, there were a large number of empires existing in the ancient world. Every empire would like to expand their territory and conflicts between empires were inevitable. In the year of 334 B.C., Persian meets inevitable extinction after fierce war with strong Macedonia led by Alexander the Great. Besides this, the aggression target of Macedonia also includes Egypt and Babylonia. To the contrary, Macedonia is also the target of other empires, for example, Roman. The kingdom of Macedonia clashed with the rising power of the Roman Republic during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. In the year of 323 B.C., the kingdom of Macedonia was defeated and followed the Roman rule. At the same time, the Romans took charge of them and named it as the Roman province of Macedonia (Wikipedia). Just like Macedonia, the Roman Republic was finally defeated by The Ottoman Empire in the year of