Empire example sentences

Till the eighteenth century, people in Europe saw themselves as subjects of an empire, such as the Austro-Hungarian empire, or members of a church, such as the Greek Orthodox church.While some English team games like hockey and football became international games, played all over the world, cricket remained a colonial game, limited to countries that had once been part of the British empire.Even after Indian independence kick-started the disappearance of the British empire, the regulation of international cricket remained the business of the Imperial Cricket Conference ICC.This was because of many factors: the loss of markets and productivity because of the decline of the Mughal Empire, control of the sea routes by the Portuguese and competition from Bombay (present-day Mumbai) where the English East India Company shifted its headquarters in 166 Today, Surat is a bustling commercial centre.The histories you read last year included a wide range of early societies – hunter-gatherers, early farmers, people living in towns and villages, and early empires and kingdoms.The end result of these changes was the emergence of the nation-state in place of the multi-national dynastic empires of Europe.These were not formally included in the Maratha empire, but were made to pay tribute as a way of accepting Maratha sovereignty.On the bitterly cold morning of 18 January 1871, an assembly comprising the princes of the German states, representatives of the army, important Prussian ministers including the chief minister Otto von Bismarck gathered in the unheated Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of ersailles to proclaim the new German Empire headed by Kaiser William I of Prussia.All through the nineteenth century the Ottoman Empire had sought to strengthen itself through modernisation and internal reforms but with very little success.Between 1720 and 1761, the Maratha empire expanded.It was in South Africa that Baker came in touch with Cecil Rhodes, the Governor of Cape Town, who inspired in Baker a love for the British empire and an admiration for the architectural heritage of ancient Rome and Greece.During 1918 and 1919, the 'greens' (Socialist Revolutionaries) and 'whites' (pro-Tsarists) controlled most of the Russian empire.Through the eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire gradually fragmented into a number of independent, regional states.This gave them extraordinary political, economic and military powers over vast regions of the Mughal Empire.This was possible because Test cricket from its origins in 1877 was organised as a contest between different parts of the British empire, not sovereign nations.