Rules of Empires

Rule #1: ________ is easy, governing is hard.

• Conquering

• Exploring

• Ruling

• Trading

Process of strengthening the ruler’s control over all the people and places in the empire:

• expansion

• integration

• consolidation

Rule #2: He who controls ________ controls the world.

• colonies

• disease

• ports

• trade

Process of enlarging the size of an empire, usually through conquest:

• expansion

• integration

• consolodation

Rule #3: Power will collapse without ________.

• armies

• navies

• respect

• territories

Process of linking previously separated territories into a single political, economic, and cultural system:

• expansion

• integration

• consolidation

Rule #4: If you act like you can't ________, you will.

• integrate

• lose

• survive

• win

________ is known as the first person in recorded history to rule over a multi-national empire.

• Alexander the Great

• Genghis Khan

• Sargon of Akkad

• Suleyman the Magnificent

Rule #5: ________ you fall.

• Crowded

• Divided

• Empty

• Without power