The mausoleum of Galla Placidia, sister of Flavius Honorius, the very man who made Ravenna the capital of the Western Empire.
When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the Fifth Century the effect on material culture and technology in Europe was devastating.
Spain was for three centuries the centre of the western Islamic empire.
"America and the Western, Christian empire are about to jump off a cliff, " says Murrin.
In fact, what is in train appears to be a highly profitable Soviet strategy aimed at strengthening its balance sheets across the globe by shifting the financial burdens of communist empire to Western accounts.
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.
They highlight the curriculum's omission of the contributions of troops from the British Empire on the Western Front and other campaigns of World Wars I and II, as well as a wider lack of acknowledgement of "the importance of Islamic civilisation to humanity's progress and history", for example to the Renaissance in Europe.
In the 9th century, the western part of Charlemagne's empire was called France and its inhabitants French.
The Mongols, while indeed being the fierce horsemen of legend, did, having established their empire which stretched from Northern China to Western Europe, then rule it as a free trade area.
After the war, the British and French refused to give up their colonies without a fight, and the Soviet Union fueled a Cold War by attempting to restore, and build upon, the older czarist empire in eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.
Natalie Konstantinovna Mark was born in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a part of the tsarist empire that was close to the tastes of Western Europe.
Obviously, such leverage has security implications not the least for the useful role it may play in inducing increasingly "independent" nations of its former empire to play the role of pass-throughs of Western technology and know-how.
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It was the first time its troops had seen action on the Western Front, and it is seen as an example of how the Empire was prepared to sacrifice its colonial troops with little thought about the consequences.
Assuming Soviet earnings are earmarked for these two purposes, the West is -- through undisciplined lending practices -- unwittingly financing a large portion of the Soviet empire's remaining hard currency requirements at a multibillion dollar annual cost to Western taxpayers in higher defense and foreign assistance spending.
When in 1856 the sultan yielded to Western pressure and granted Christians some equality, there was a backlash from the Islamic establishment across the empire.
The Western world finds itself in a state of decadence, leading a wasteful lifestyle, more or less like the Roman Empire in its last years.
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