![]() ![]() There have been "ancient and modern, centralized and decentralized, ultra-brutal and relatively benign" Empires. Narrowly defined, an empire is a sovereign state called an empire and whose head of state is an emperor, (an example being the Roman Empire) but not all states with aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities are called empires or ruled by an emperor nor have all self-described empires been accepted as such by contemporaries and historians (the Central African Empire, and some Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in early England being examples). ![]() An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries".
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