23/04/2021
Is Ethiopia an Empire and remains to be an Empire if it is?
Definitely yes!!
👉Necessary preconditions in order for an empire to exist are:-
1. State-level government
2. High agricultural potential of the environment
3. An environmental mosaic
4. Several small states with no clear dominant power
5. Mutual antagonism among those states
✍️ A relationship in which the effect of competition between two or more states(inter specific competition) exceeds that of competition within each states (transpacific competition)
6. Adequate military resources
👉Basic Characteristics
1. Build roads and transportation systems, canals, ports, etc.
2. Trade increases between the sates
3. Cosmopolitan cities:-
✍️ Cities where people from various parts of the states live, with different languages, cultures and customs together.
✍️ A cosmopolitan city can be understood as the city which hosts people coming from different ethnicities, beliefs and cultures.
4. Effective bureaucracy to ensure communication, collect taxes, oversee coinage, ensure the emperor's law are enforced.
5. Common official language.
6. System of justice, law for entire empire.
7. Citizenship or rights extend in some degree to conquered.
👉Empires fall because.
1. Failure or leadership; focus on wealth
2. Ideology of expansion and conquest leads to attempting new conquests beyond a practical limit
3. Lack of new conquests erodes economic base and lessens faith in ideology that supported the empire
4. Rebellions from within/challenges from without.