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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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To: LLCF who wrote (43522)12/27/2005 8:31:55 PM
From: regli  Read Replies (2) of 116555
 
>... but you've misused the word empire... period.<

Just one more definition. Note that the empire definition really doesn't require an emperor and that there were several different empires that do not fit your far too narrow dictionary definition.

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Empires can accrete around different types of state. They have traditionally originated as powerful monarchies under the rule of a hereditary (or in some cases, self-appointed) emperor, but the so-called empires of Athens, Britain and the United States developed under democratic auspices. Brazil leapt from colonial to self-declared empire status in 1822. France has twice made the transition from republic to empire.
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