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Example sentences for: empires

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As you know, the Roman and the Ottoman empires suffered from "grave internal weaknesses" but persisted for centuries.
There is clear evidence of trade with the Tarascan, Mixtec, and Zapotec empires that extended to the north and south of Acapulco prior to Mexico’s conquest by Spain.
Because of nuclear weapons, the United States and the Soviet Union could not afford to do what great rival empires would previously have done: go to war over the places that really mattered to them, in this case Europe and China-Taiwan-Japan.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the same qualities that drive them to build empires make them lousy to write about.
Later, the island became part of the commercial empires of Pisa, Genoa, and the Spanish, and was annexed in 1718 by the dukes of Savoy.