Empire

Empire

The term empire derives from the Latin imperium (power, authority). Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples (ethnic groups) united and ruled either by a monarch (emperor, empress) or an oligarchy.

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Famous quotes containing the word empire:

    “Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “An empire is an immense egotism.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)