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	Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For many centuries, the term "Empire" in the West applied exclusively to states which considered themselves to be successors to the Roman Empire, such as the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, or, later, the Russian Empire ruled from the "Third Rome" (Moscow).
		The Byzantine Empire was reconstructed and the Trebizondine fell to the Ottomans.
		The Western Empire was inherited by the Austrian Empire, later known as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy which ceased to exist in 1918.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Empire (1806 words)

	First Crusade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II to regain control of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Christian Holy Land from Muslims.
		Under emperor Alexius I Comnenus, the empire was largely confined to Europe and the western coast of Anatolia, and faced enemies in the Normans in the west and the Seljuks in the east.
		First known Islamic discussion of the concept of jihad written in the aftermath of the First Crusade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Crusade (4779 words)

	France: First Empire (May 1804-April 1814 & March-June 1815) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On 2 December 1804, the First Consul (Premier Consul) Napoléon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français) as Napoléon I. In 1814, France was invaded by a coalition led by Prussia and Napoléon I abdicated on 4-6 April.
		The national flag used during the First Empire was the blue-white-red Tricolore flag.
		The bee was part of the French symbolic from 1804 to 1814 (First Empire), during the Cent-Jours (20/03-22/06/1815), and finally under Napoleon III's Second Empire (1852-1870).
	www.flagspot.net /flags/fr_1emp.html (504 words)

	First French Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First French Empire, commonly known as the French Empire or the Napoleonic Empire, covers the period of the domination of France and much of continental Europe by Napoleon I of France.
		So First Empire France had no internal history outside the plans and transformations to which Napoleon subjected the institutions of the Consulate, and outside the after-effects of the Napoleonic Wars.
		It was from Berlin, on 21 November 1806, that he had dated the first decree of a continental blockade, a monstrous conception intended to paralyze his inveterate rival, but which on the contrary caused his own fall by its immoderate extension of the Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_French_Empire (2415 words)

	World War I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British Empire action opened another front in the South with the Gallipoli (1915) and Mesopotamian campaigns, though initially the Turks were successful in repelling enemy incursion.
		The First World War was different from prior military conflicts: it was a meeting of 20th century technology with 19th century mentality and tactics.
		In Australian popular legend, the First World War is known as the nation's "baptism of fire"; it is seen as one of the first instances of the then-young nation participating so heavily in a major conflict.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_World_War (8172 words)

	First French Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The First French Empire, commonly known as the French Empire, the Napoleonic Empire or simply as The Empire, covers the period of the domination of France and of much of continental Europe by Napoleon I of France.
		Having become "First Consul", he attracted more power and gravitated towards imperial status, gathering support on the way for his internal rebuilding of France and its institutions.
		So First Empire France had no internal history outside the plans and transformations to which Napoleon subjected the institutions of the Consulate, and outside the after-effects of his wars.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/f/fi/first_french_empire.html (2558 words)

	Imperial Eras
		Much of what came to constitute China Proper was unified for the first time in 221 B.C. In that year the western frontier state of Qin, the most aggressive of the Warring States, subjugated the last of its rival states.
		First Emperor), a formulation previously reserved for deities and the mythological sage-emperors, and imposed Qin's centralized, nonhereditary bureaucratic system on his new empire.
		Riddled with the corruption characteristic of the dynastic cycle, by A.D. 220 the Han empire collapsed.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/imperial.html (968 words)

	Notes on India 2
		He was responsible for the first military victory of the East over the West; in 305 B.C. he defeated Seleucus, the general who had inherited the major part of Alexander's empire and had crossed the Indus in an attempt to regain Alexander's Indian conquests.
		His first military campaign was also his last; the cruelty of the campaign horrified him, and he resolved never again to permit such acts of butchery.
		With the exception of a short period during the Mauryan Empire, the vast tableland of south India - the Deccan - and its fertile coastal plains remained outside the main forces of political change in the north.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/mauryanempire.htm (2943 words)

	Early Settlement and Empire - Bulgarian Reformation - Bringing the Reformation to Bulgaria!
		The first known civilization to dominate the territory of present-day Bulgaria was that of the Thracians, an Indo-European group.
		The immigration of the first Bulgars overlapped that of the Slavs in the seventh century.
		The First Bulgarian Empire was able to defeat the Byzantine Empire in 811 and expand its territory eastward to the Black Sea, south to include Macedonia, and northwest to present-day Belgrade (see fig.
	bulrefsite.entrewave.com /view/bulrefsite/s129p135.htm (1519 words)

	Empire Township, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
		Empire, Township 15 north, Range 18 east, originally was a portion of Taycheedah, and it is difficult, therefore, to separate the early history of the former from that of the latter.
		The first schoolhouse in the county was also built in Empire, but never was used for school purposes, owing to a greater number of scholars living at Taycheedah.
		The first grist-mill in the county was erected in Empire, on Section 22 by Henry Conklin.
	www.wlhn.org /fond_du_lac/towns/Empire.htm (1028 words)

	The First Blast of the Trumpet (1558) by John Knox
		If any think that the empire of women is not of such importance, that for the suppressing of the same any man is bound to hazard his life: I answer, that to suppress it is in the hand of God alone.
		And first, where I affirm the empire of a woman to be a thing repugnant to nature, I mean not only that God, by the order of his creation, has spoiled [deprived] woman of authority and dominion, but also that man has seen, proved, and pronounced just causes why it should be.
		In which words is first to be noted, that the apostle calls this former sentence pronounced against woman a law: that is, the immutable decree of God, who by his own voice has subjected her to one member of the congregation, that is to her husband.
	www.swrb.com /newslett/actualnls/FirBlast.htm (12856 words)

	British Empire -> The First Empire on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In India, from the 1740s to 1763, the British East India Company and its French counterpart were engaged in a military and commercial rivalry in which the British were ultimately victorious.
		The political fragmentation of the Mughal empire permitted the absorption of one area after another by the British.
		Empire unbound.(Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy)(Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance)(The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic)(Superpower Syndrome:...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/BritEmp_TheFirstEmpire.asp (1027 words)

	The First Empire
		Describing the Empire style Molinier writes : " Only one thing allows us to pardon the furniture of the first Empire for its incoherence of form and decoration, and that is the excessive conscientiousness that presides over its execution ; from a technical point of view the cabinet work and the bronze work are irreproachable.
		The carved figure of a swan is often the chief charm of the arm of chair and couch and sides of beds.
		It was during the first Empire period that cheval glasses,` or psyches, as they were called in France, were introduced.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles16/furniture-51.shtml (362 words)

	France: Regimental flags under the First Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The crowning ceremony took place nearly seven months after the proclamation of the Empire because the new Emperor had to reorganize the institutions, establish an Imperial family and court, and, last but not least, convince the Pope to crown a former revolutionary.
		Next year, the red flag was hoisted on the Champ-de-Mars on 17 July and the first martyres of the Revolution were killed.
		This first eagle-bearer should be assisted by two war veterans, called the second and the third eagle bearers.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr^r_1e.html (1273 words)

	Franco-Turkish Relationship during First Empire
		The empire was the largest and most influential of the Muslim empires of the modern period, and their culture and military expansion crossed over into Europe.
		The first factor, riding in his favor was the long history of diplomatic and economic relations that had existed between France and the Ottoman Empire, since the 16th Century.
		At first, this revolt was aimed not at the Porte but at the cruel janissary overlords of the region.
	www.napoleon-series.org /research/government/diplomatic/c_tufrdip1.html (2818 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Bulgarians are first mentioned by name as tribes living northeast of the Danube, in 482 AD.
		This newly formed state, or "Great Bulgaria," spread from the Kuban river in the east to the Donets and Dnieper rivers in the north and west and to the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea in the south.
		The First Bulgarian Empire was established in 681 AD, when the Byzantium was forced to sign a peace treaty with the Bulgarians.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/EastEurope/BulgarEmp1.html (874 words)

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 20th Century: Topic 1: Overview
		At no time in the first half of her reign was empire a central preoccupation of her or her governments, but this was to change in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), which altered the balance of power in Europe.
		It was "a Roman moment." The analogy of the Roman Empire was endlessly invoked in discussions of the British Empire.
		The most recent development in the dismantling of the British Empire was the restoration to Chinese rule, under a declaration signed in 1984, of the former British crown colony of Hong Kong, on the southeastern coast of China.
	www.wwnorton.com /nael/20century/topic_1/welcome.htm (802 words)

	First Persian Empire 549-330 BC
		The First Persian Empire is said to be the first multi-cultural empire, but its rulers had a religion universal yet exclusive - the Zoroastrian religion - whose god Mazda (Light) was so to influence Jewish thinking, that Yahweh was changed from a tribal God into a universal one.
		Zoroastrianism, then, was the first fundamentalist religion, spread by missionaries, embraced by King Cyrus and King Darius, prepared to use war as a means of enlightenment, the first form of Internationalism.
		In general it seems that Zoroastrian teachings, first assimilated by Second Isaiah with his proclamation of Yahweh as God and Creator, were adopted also by other prophets of the Isaianic school and make sporadic appearance in their verses, although not yet as part of an integrated system of belief.
	users.cyberone.com.au /myers/zoroaster-judaism.html (20089 words)

	Empire Alpaca Association
		The Empire Alpaca Association ("EAA") was born in 2002 as an outgrowth of the first Empire Alpaca Extravaganza.
		Those first 16 farms expressed a desire to become a New York Affiliate of the Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association.
		EAA is the first Affiliate to draft and vote in a Code of Ethics, something of which we're all very proud.
	www.empirealpacaassociation.com (590 words)

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	First empire - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An obscure daughter of merchants realized a prodigious destiny: first affianced to Bonaparte, she became by her marriage to Bernadotte queen of Sweden.
		In the beginning of 1794 Desiree Clary, daughter of a wholesaler of Marseille, met Bonaparte, who had been promoted to inspector general of the coasts after the siege of Toulon.
		She rests in the main Lutheran church in Stockholm at the side of her spouse.
	www.histofig.com /history/empire/personnes/france_clary_en.html (244 words)

	Amazon.com: Empires - The Roman Empire in the First Century (2001): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Roman Empire in the First Century is filled with information about everyday life in the Roman Empire, and interviews with historians are supported with eyewitness accounts by dozens of Romans, from the poet Ovid to unknown soldiers in the forests of Germania.
		That is what happens with "The Roman Empire in the First Century." The writers have managed to make the dramatic events that shaped Rome appear boring, and are treated with little care for facts in many cases.
		First, let me say that I have been satisfied and impressed with many PBS historical documentaries, as I have accumulated quite a collection over the years to present to my high school classes; but I was sorely disappointed with this one.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007KIFWS?v=glance (1719 words)

	Akkadians - History for Kids!
		He also helped to unify his empire by making his daughter Enheduanna the high priestess for life of the moon god Nanna at Ur, and also the high priestess of the sky god An at Uruk.
		She is the first author whose name we know.
		Naram-Sin was succeeded by his own son Shar-kali-Sharri, but Shar-kali-Sharri failed to hold the Akkadian Empire together, and around 2100 BC it gradually fell apart into a bunch of small kingdoms and cities as it hd been under the Sumerians.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/westasia/history/akkadians.htm (471 words)

	Achaemenid, World’s First Empire to Respect Cultural Diversity
		The Achaemenid dynasty was the first empire in the world that respected the cultural diversity of its different peoples.
		The first dynastic capital of the Achaemenid Empire was founded by Cyrus II the Great, in Pars, homeland of the Persians, in the 6th century BC.
		Spanning the Eastern Mediterranean and Egypt to the Hindus River, it is considered to be the first empire that respected the cultural diversity of its different peoples.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/jul/1010.html (367 words)

	Napoleon
		The first emblematic image of the Napoleonic myth, this painting exalts the virtues of the military leader, as embodied by the young General Bonaparte at the head of the Armée d'Italie.
		Here for the first time victory's dark side, the other side of the coin, is painted in all its cruel reality.
		Known to his contemporaries as «the painter of kings and the king of painters', Gérard was the official portrait painter of Napoleon, the imperial family and the grand dignitaries of the First Empire.
	www.napoleon.org /en/essential_napoleon/key_painting/premier_empire.asp (1748 words)

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