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Example sentences for: empire

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Egypt was already dominated by foreign power — the Assyrians — and also began increasing trade and diplomacy with the expanding Roman Empire.
“Freedom” was our rallying cry in the decades-long battle against the political enemy that Ronald Reagan labeled the “evil empire.”
Pilgrims came from all over the Roman (and, later, Byzantine) Empire during the following centuries, but the prosperity they brought lasted only until 614, when Persian armies overtook Judea and reduced Jerusalem to rubble again.
The situation stabilized with Vespasian, and the second century A.D. is often considered the golden age of the empire (Gibbon himself says that the time of Marcus Aurelius--late second century--was the best time to live of all in history).
Begun at the height of Napoléon III’s Second Empire, it was completed only in 1875, after the Commune.