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Roman Empire

27 BC - 476 AD; development of law, extensive road networks

Mongol Empire

1206 AD - 1368 AD; largest contiguous land empire, powerful cavalry

British Empire

1583 AD - 1997 AD; largest empire in history, industrial revolution

Ottoman Empire

1299 AD - 1922 AD; control of trade routes, Islamic Golden Age

Byzantine Empire

330 AD - 1453 AD; continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, Eastern Orthodox Church

Persian Empire (Achaemenid Empire)

550 BC - 330 BC; Royal Road, tolerance of diverse cultures

Egyptian Empire

circa 3150 BC - 30 BC; pyramids, hieroglyphs, pharaohs

Russian Empire

1721 AD - 1917 AD; expansion to the Pacific, serfdom, Tsars

Mughal Empire

1526 AD - 1857 AD; Taj Mahal, Mughal painting, composite culture

Qing Dynasty

1636 AD - 1912 AD; last imperial dynasty of China, territorial expansion

Spanish Empire

1492 AD - 1976 AD; one of the first global empires, conquest of the Americas

Holy Roman Empire

800 AD - 1806 AD; multi-ethnic complex of territories, Charlemagne

Austro-Hungarian Empire

1867 AD - 1918 AD; dual monarchy, diversity of ethnic groups

Portuguese Empire

1415 AD - 1999 AD; first global maritime empire, Age of Discoveries

French Empire

1804 AD - 1815 AD (First Empire); Napoleonic Wars, Civil Code

Aztec Empire

circa 1345 AD - 1521 AD; Tenochtitlan, human sacrifices, chinampas

Inca Empire

1438 AD - 1533 AD; largest empire in pre-Columbian America, quipus

Carolingian Empire

800 AD - 888 AD; Carolingian Renaissance, Treaty of Verdun

Abbasid Caliphate

750 AD - 1258 AD; House of Wisdom, Golden Age of Islam

Macedonian Empire

336 BC - 323 BC; conquests of Alexander the Great, Hellenistic culture

Sassanian Empire

224 AD - 651 AD; last pre-Islamic Persian empire, Zoroastrianism

Maurya Empire

322 BC - 185 BC; Ashoka, spread of Buddhism, Grand Trunk Road

Gupta Empire

320 AD - 550 AD; Golden Age of India, zero and the decimal system

Han Dynasty

206 BC - 220 AD; Silk Road, papermaking, civil service exams

Umayyad Caliphate

661 AD - 750 AD; expansion of Islamic empire, Arabic as administrative language

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