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The Fall of Empires: A Brief History of Imperial Collapse [Audiobook]
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The Fall of Empires: A Brief History of Imperial Collapse [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B08PHQR2NM | 2020 | 7 hours and 42 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Chad Denton
Narrator: Kevin Moriarty
In The Fall of Empires: A Brief History of Imperial Collapse, historian Chad Denton describes the end of 17 empires throughout world history, from Athens to Qin China, from the Byzantium to the Mughals. He reveals — through stories of conquest, corruption, incompetence, assassination, bigotry, and environmental crisis — how even the most seemingly eternal of empires declined. For Athens and Britain, it was military hubris; for Qin China and Russia, it was alienating their subjects through oppression; Persia succumbed with the loss of its capital; the Khmer faced ecological catastrophe; while the Aztecs were destroyed by colonial exploitation.
None of these events alone explains why the empires fell, but they do provide a glimpse into the often-unpredictable currents of history, which have so far spared no empire. A fascinating and instructive survey, The Fall of Empires provides compelling evidence about the fate of centralized regional or global power.