Empires rise, hold territory and fall, and the histories of Rome, Byzantium, the Ottomans and Britain show how. These curations cover the Byzantine Empire's survival after the Western Roman Empire fell, the rise and fall of ancient Rome and its legacy, the Ottoman Empire's centralized state, how the British Empire reshaped land and labor, and how Rome connected its territories.
The history of the Byzantine Empire is the history of the continuation of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. It survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and endured until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
The rise and fall of the Roman Empire is the history of ancient Rome from the traditional end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC until the abdication of Romulus Augustulus in AD 476 in the West and the Fall of Constantinople in the East in 1453. Ancient Rome became a territorial empire while still a republic, then was ruled by emperors beginning with Octavian Augustus.
The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire is a period described as the "Proto-Imperial Era." By the middle of the fifteenth century, Sultan Mehmed II established a centralized imperial state, and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 marked the shift from principality to empire.
The history of the British Empire is the history of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and colonisation attempts by Scotland during the 17th century.
The Roman Empire was a state that dominated the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa during the classical period. What connected Rome's vast territories, and how can you understand the ways imperial rule held them together? The lessons consider the roles of military oversight, local languages, and transport in linking the empire.
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