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The earliest empire which can with certainty be stated to have been larger than all previous empires was that of Upper and Lower Egypt, which covered ten times the area of the previous largest civilisation around the year 3000 BC. [38] Timeline of largest empires at the time. Largest empires by share of world population.
Spanish–Portuguese Empire of the Iberian Union (1580–1640) was the first global imperial entity. The map includes all Spanish territories, but only territories Portugal had during the Iberian Union.
Figure 2.7.1 2.7. 1: " Officer of the Mughal Army with a matchlock rifle, 1585 ," in the Public Domain. Figure 2.7.2 2.7. 2: " Persian musketeer in time of Abbas I, late-16th c. ," Habib Allah Mashad, in the Public Domain. The other thing the three empires shared, of course, is that they were all founded and ruled by Muslims.
Alexander Mackenzie of the North West Company led the first, starting out in 1792, and a year later he became the first European to reach the Pacific overland north of the Rio Grande, reaching the ocean near present-day Bella Coola. This preceded the Lewis and Clark Expedition by twelve years.
Oct 10, 2015 · Portugal: The First Global Empire. Poor and small, Portugal was at the edge of late medieval Europe. But its seafarers created the age of ‘globalisation’, which continues to this day. Roger Crowley | Published in History Today Volume 65 Issue 10 October 2015. In the dying years of the 15th century Portugal surprised the world.
But empire rarely travelled alone. It was not a hermetically sealed political entity, but interlaced with multiple competing fields and forms of political action. An overemphasis on what empire is, what it does to the world, and how it should be distinguished from other polities, obscures the global entanglements that constituted imperial power ...
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May 11, 2011 · An Empire is a political construct in which one state dominates over another state, or a series of states. At its heart, an empire is ruled by an emperor, even though many states in history without an emperor at their head are called "empires".
