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| | Ottoman (empire) | |
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| | Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet | |
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| | Han Dynasty term for the Roman Empire 羅馬帝國|罗马帝国 | |
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| | Xiongnu, a people of the Eastern Steppe who created an empire that flourished around the time of the Qin and Han dynasties | |
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| | Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China / Taiping Heavenly Kingdom | |
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| | Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国, whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝 | |
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| | Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire | |
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| | Byzantium / Byzantine or Eastern Roman empire (395-1453) | |
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| | fall (of an empire) | |
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| | former southernmost province of the Chinese Empire, now northern Vietnam | |
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| | ancient name for east Roman empire | |
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| | Ottoman Empire (1299–1922) | |
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| | auspicious sculpted animal, usu. a unicorn or deer with a long tail / possession of the empire | |
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| | Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD) | |
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| | to inspire awe throughout the empire (idiom) | |
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| | Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867–1918 | |
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| | (derog.) the Chinese Communist regime (variant of 天朝 Celestial Empire, invented to circumvent censorship) | |
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| | Russian empire (1546-1917) | |
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| | the overall state of affairs in the world (esp. in political or historical terms); the prevailing trend across the nation or empire | |
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| | Empire State Building (New York City) | |
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| | the Holy Roman Empire (history) | |
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| | Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近衛文麿|近卫文麿 in 1938 | |
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| | Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon | |
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| | Umayyad Empire (661-750, in Iberia -1031), successor of the Rashidun caliphate | |
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| | Han dynasty name for countries in far West / may refer to Silk Road states or Alexandria or the Roman empire | |
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| | Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate | |
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| | Eastern Roman empire or Byzantium (395-1453) | |
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| | Great Qing Empire (1644-1911) | |
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| | Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD) | |
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| | Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC / Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒玫 | |
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| | (idiom) to re-establish order throughout the empire | |
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| | History of the Liao Dynasty, 13th-century book on the history of the Khitan Empire (916-1125) | |
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| | Ottoman Empire (Tw) | |
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| | Korean Empire, from fall of Joseon dynasty in 1897 to annexation by Japan in 1910 | |
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| | old estate / former empire / former occupation | |
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| | Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire | |
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| | Caliphate (Islamic empire formed after the death of the Prophet Muhammad 穆罕默德 in 632) | |
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| | Outer Manchuria (the historical name for the part of Russia near northeastern China that was ceded to the Russian Empire in the mid-19th century) | |
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| | British Empire | |
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| | Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC | |
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| | Empire State Building | |
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| | Saracen Empire (medieval European name for Arab empire) | |
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| | Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD) | |
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| | Achaemenid Dynasty, (559–330 BC), ancient Iranian dynasty whose kings ruled the Achaemenid Empire | |
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