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Many of the ancient hierarchical world empires (Egypt, Babylon, etc.) have fat chapters in history of mathematics texts.
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Both during the post-World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire and with the breakup of the British and French empires after World War II, British and French imperial authorities colluded with Arab imperialists to guarantee the latter's nearly uninhibited control over the Middle East.
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We are a nation that, 234 years ago, declared our independence from one of the greatest empires the world had ever known.
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But long gone are the times when Austria was one was the greatest empires in the world.
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Murdoch finally succumbed to the turmoil that for a time threatened to engulf the entire company, even after it stepped away from a controversial bid to acquire full control of its UK-based broadcasting arm, ending any possibility of him succeeding his father at the helm of one of the most powerful media empires in the world.
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World War I is a war of empires which comes to its culmination point when a state gets into it.
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World War II is a war of empires against the state system.
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The unstable international order was the product of the collapse of the great dynastic empires in 1918-19 and a dysfunctional world economy.
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Do we want to look back decades from now and recognize that at this critical juncture in history, America, through its inaction, cemented its future on the dust heap of former world powers, including the Roman, Ottoman, British or Soviet empires?
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The rise of the British and other European empires, with their technological and ultimately military superiority, threw the world out of joint.
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With the collapse of the Soviet empire and the dissolution of western Europe's empires, one key aspect of the age of empire the struggle for world domination among great powers was over.
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