1. History 140 Peoples and Empires Holly Hampton

3. They meet, cross, and sometimes become confused with each other.

4. Empires have always been ways of imposing stability upon different groups who often have little love for each other.

5. “Empire” has become a metaphor as the description of a particular kind of society.

6. “The art of putting men in their place.” Charles Talleyrand

8. Salon created the first true political society in Europe History.

9. Herodotus, the “Father of History” traveled far beyond his world.

10. The Greeks were great travelers and colonizers.

11. With new interments of war, emerged a new kind of combat.

12. Alexander the Great was “The first of the great European Empires.

14. Rome became a republic in the late 16th century.

15. Romans were highly skilled tacticians and military innovators.

16. They were thorough and ruthless.

17. Roman expansion had stopped by the time Julius Caesar seized effective control of the Senate in the first century B.C.

18. In March 15, 44 he was stabbed to death.

19. Roman law was intended to confer an ethical purpose upon the entire community.