By co-opting #Christianity for imperial purposes, #Constantine effectively held the keys to heaven and hell (through enforcement of imperially approved church #doctrines that excluded persons from the #church who held different views), tools which #empires have used through the ages to manipulate the masses and justify imperial expansion and #colonialism under the guise of Christian mission.

about #tea and #empires 🍵🐉 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-21/tea-most-popular-beverage-after-water/102260704

If you ever want to try yourself on fixing long-standing problems there's a 20 years old bug with Empires: Dawn of the Modern World where certain sounds such as airplane engines or horses will loop infinitely.

#DawnOfTheModernWorld #DotMW #Empires

Empires of the Undergrowth conclude la stagione con un nuovo scenario di sopravvivenza

https://www.stadiaverse.it/2023/05/03/empires-of-the-undergrowth-conclude-la-stagione-con-un-nuovo-scenario-di-sopravvivenza/

#Empires of the Undergrowth #Epic Games Store #GOG #Steam

The way I see "western" history unfolding: ancient Greek #colonizers led to Roman #empires led to powerful #churches led to European #colonialism led to modern #capitalism. Common elements include: oppression of women and others, stealing land, creating class differences, and focusing on accumulation of land/wealth with no thought of the consequences. Am I right?

@menger_tom
speaks about the connections between different #empires when it comes to their #violent #colonial pasts and how Germany fits into this story. Just posted on our blog: https://bit.ly/3ZpE3gs
(thnx Einsichten magazine!)
(^correction^)

#Dictators Bent on Building #Military #Empires
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/dictators-bent-on-building-military-empires/
The Cost of the Nation’s Endless #Wars

📻#Écoutez Jean-Paul #Demoule : "Dès qu’un village dépasse cent, deux-cent, personnes, on va aller [s’installer] plus loin."
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/concordance-des-temps/migrants-pour-une-longue-histoire-5790405 #citation #anthropologie #humanité #invasive #conquêtes #déportation #innovation #colonisation #génétique #racialisation #barbares #migrations #histoire #évangélisation #empires #grandRemplacement #conseilPodcast #FranceCulture 🧶​

Première expérience de radio ce soir : avec Hélène Vu Thanh, directrice de l'ouvrage, nous discuterons du livre "Les missions religieuses à l'épreuve des empires coloniaux" sur Radio Notre Dame.
Beau volume qui allie histoire globale et locale. Je présenterai mon chapitre sur les missions protestantes en Irlande au 19e. Demain sur les ondes puis en #podcast. #histoire #empires #missions #Ireland
https://radionotredame.net/emissions/orient_extreme/13-01-2023

'Empire' by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand looks like another interesting historical podcast series to follow.

From the description: "How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today?"

https://open.spotify.com/show/0sBh58hSTReUQiK4axYUVx

#Empires #Podcasts #History #WilliamDalrymple #AnitaAnand

American hubris - New Statesman

The US is addicted to greatness – and haunted by its loss.

Great powers, both past and present, are haunted by three interconnected preoccupations: they are tempted by a sense of national superiority and claims to manifest historic destiny. Those pretensions tend to provoke fears of decline, which then give rise to projects of rebirth.

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/12/addicted-greatness-donald-trump-america-new-labour
By #AdamTooze (@adamtooze)

#USPol #USA #Europe #China #Empires #Exceptionalism #Economy #Military

Carte de l’Amérique du Nord (1775) dressée par Emanuel Bowen
Empires britannique et espagnol après le Traité de Paris de 1763
Frontières de la Province de Québec selon la Proclamation royale de 1763
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b532481970
#cartographie #carte #Amérique #Québec #empires #Gallica #Autochtones

It is also worth observing, #Monarchy is probably the only prominent system of #Government we know of in which children are crutial players. [...] The dead can be worshipped under any regime. Even the #UnitedStates, which frames itself as a beacon of #Democracy, creates temples to its #FoundingFathers and carves portraits of dead #Presidents into the sides of mountains. But infants, pure objects of love and nurture, are only important in #Kingdoms and #Empires.
– The Dawn of Everything

A reminder that Death is our friend though her kindness oft resembles cruelty. She inevitably comes for #empires, too.

---

He appeared to ascend
So we all stood there in awe
Now we have to pretend
We didn't see what we saw
When the curtain unveiled
To the sound of applause
That the king that we hailed
Was the Wizard of Oz

We will break away together
I'll be the shadow
You'll be the light
Nothing ever lasts forever
We will go softly
Into the night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA21qOo2mWs

#Ghost #HeavyMetal

Our conventional vision of #WorldHistory is a checker board of cities, #Empires, and kingdoms. But in fact for most of [the past,] these were exceptional islands of #PoliticalHierarchy surrounded by much larger territories whose inhabitants, if visible at all to historians eyes, are variously described as "tribal confederacies," "anfictiones," or, if you're an anthropologist, "segmentary societies." [That is,] people who systematically avoided fixed systems of #Authority.
–The Dawn of Everything

#WorldWarII was about bog-standard #colonization of perceived "inferior people" for their land and resources, the same as the rest of Europe was doing around the world at the time - just with an added dose of dangerous antisemitic conspiracy theorist ideology on top.

And in nearly all cases of #colonial #empires, they weren't destroyed by talks and trade and praise of peace. It took armed resistance until the central power no longer had the will or ability to carry on.

Pixlriffs is the only regular adult on the #Empires server.

#Hermitcraft #Minecraft

❗️There has been a change of time and place for the last lecture of the cycle "Modern World": it will start at 2 PM (UK), via Zoom.

Our guest, Wang Hui (Tsinghua University) will address the past and present history of China, from the perspective of imperialism.

#China #Imperialism #ModernHistory #Empires #OnlineLecture #Histodons
@histodons

ℹ https://bit.ly/3GYXCWf

A nona (e última) conferência do ciclo "O mundo contemporâneo: história, política e cultura" vai ter como convidado Wang Hui (Tsinghua University), que nos falará sobre a #China de ontem e hoje, sob o ponto de vista do #imperialismo.

Esta conferência, tal como a da semana passada, está também integrada no ciclo "Impérios", co-organizado com a Culturgest.

#Imperialism #WangHui #Empires

ℹ https://bit.ly/3GYXCWf

📌Working on #Decoloniality, #Hierarchies, #Feminism, #Empires & #Peace? Our project Postcolonial Hierarchies has just published this🎬 new video with Prof Madina Tlostanova @liu_universitet, who so thoughtfully tackles these issues🌍

part of our *new* #knowledge [in #dialogue] series on YouTube📽️: https://youtu.be/DU6IlbXEvEg