prevalent

empire

  

founded

ended

 

  

founded by

  

founding event

final_event     

 

    World government          
  United States 1945  

Roosevelt,

Eisenhower

 Normandy Campaign  

 
  Great Britain 1815 1945 Wellington Vienna Congress  

 
  France 1648 1815 Mazarin Peace of Westfalia Waterloo, Vienna Congress
  Spain 1492 1648 Columbus

Discovery and Conquest of

the New World

 Peace of Westfalia

 
 

Mongol Empire

1206

1368

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan united the tribes

 

Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Dadu, founding the Ming dynasty
  HRR 800 1517 Charlemagne

Coronation by Pope Leo III,

withdrawing the office from

Constantinople

Protestant Reformation dividing the

empire, starting off its long decline
  Arab caliphates 632 1258

Abu Bakr

Abu Bakr became the first

Khalifa Rasul Allah

Hulagu Khan, the Mongol conqueror,

sacked Baghdad
  Byzantium 330 1453 Constantine Refoundation of Byzantium

as Nova Roma

Mehmed took Constantinople

for the Ottomans
  Rome 52 bc 476 Julius Cesar

the Siege of Alesia completing

the Roman conquest of Gaul

Odoacer took Ravenna for

the Germanic foederati
  Greece 333 bc 168 bc Alexander Defeat of Achaemenid Persia  

at the Battle of Issus

Ascendancy of Rome in Greece

after the Battle of Pydna
  Persia 546 bc 333 bc Cyrus the Great Siege of Sardis

 

 Battle of Issus

 
  Assyro-Babylonia 745 bc   Tiglath-Pileser III Annexation of Babylonia 

 

  

 
  Egypt 3100 bc   Narmer Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt