These developments led to the rise of empires.

Latin America is, therefore, defined as all those parts of the Americas that were once part of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires.

Before the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the entire Balkan region had been Christianized by both the Roman and Byzantine Empires.

Among the last of the empires in the 20th century were the Central African Empire, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Manchukuo, the German Empire, and Korea.

In India, Urdu is spoken in places where there are large Muslim minorities or cities that were bases for Muslim Empires in the past.

But it seems to be that the USA's sins, compared to those of many previous empires, are of a more moderate, if more pervasive, kind.

All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

With the invention of writing, you start getting cities. This is blurry. I kind of like that because it makes it look like a one celled organism and reminds you how many levels organic organization has already moved through to get to this point. And then you get to, you know, you get empires.