1. Expanding Empires Outside Europe
Essential Question: What Made Empires Outside Europe Rise and Decline?

2. What is an Empire?
An empire is a major political unit having a territory of great area.
An empire has politico-military control over a number of territories of different peoples who are culturally and ethnically distinct from the imperial ruling group.
A single sovereign authority, such as a monarch, sultan, or emperor, rules over the economic and social lives of the empire’s peoples.

3. Military Factors How does a society defend itself and maintain order?
Examples:
Military technology
Relationship between military and government
Interventionist or isolationist?
Who makes the military?

4. Review: Cultural Factors
How do cultures interact?
Examples:
Growth and development of religions
Formation and spread of other belief systems and philosophies
Ideas of science and technology and how they move across cultures
Artistic influences in painting, music, architecture, literature, and other arts

5. Review: Political Factors
The way people organize and govern themselves
Examples:
Forms of government
Nature and growth of empires
Political revolts and revolutions
Regional organizations

6. Review: Economic Factors
How does a society organize its economy?
Example:
Agriculture and trade
How is labor organized and used
The rise of industry
Taxing system

7. Review: Social Factors
The rules and customs developed to govern behavior in a society and help it function
Examples:
Gender roles and the place of women in a society
Family and kinship customs
Impact of racial and ethnic differences
Division of society into social and economic classes