In a statement she said

The Resource Raj rose from the ashes of the License Raj.

Imperial Hubris

The Accidental Empire

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

All go unto one place all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire of what is today western and northern Nigeria.

You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

Russia s Economic Imperialism

The Empire of Human Rights

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill

Military There was a high degree of professionalism in the army of the Oyo Empire.

The Muppet empire is now worldwide.

The Benin Empire was a pre colonial African empire, with its capital Benin City (located in what is now Edo State in Nigeria).

The Maratha Empire was located in the south west of present day India and expanded greatly under the rule of the Peshwas, the prime ministers of the Maratha empire.

For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground

invading Iraq and rubbing our face in the dirt.

when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

The Hapsburg Empire acted as a stabilizing force for its peoples and for Europe.

The Customs Union thus appears to be little more than a Russian neo imperialist venture.

In 788 it became part of the Frankish kingdom, under the authority of their count bishop.

The people created a government that established its power over a vast empire.

In 1728, the Oyo Empire invaded the Kingdom of Dahomey in a major campaign of its cavalry.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

He putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope.