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Humanities: Empires

A Lib Guide for Year 7 History

Empires

Empires Overview

This lib guide examines a range of ancient empires across the world. These empires include: the Roman empire, the Ottoman empire, the Khmer empire, the Japanese empire, the Mongol empire and the British empire.

The key questions for you to consider when exploring this website are:

  1. What are the features of the empire?
  2. How did they gather and distribute their resources?
  3. Where were they located and where did they spread to?
  4. What methods did they use to gain and maintain power?
  5. How was society organised?

The Khmer Empire

Click on the image of Angkor Wat to go to a Brittanica article on the Khmer Empire.

A further article on the Khmer Empire.

Khmer empire -- Britannica School (eb.com.au)

Click on the image below to go to an article on Khmer art.

The Roman Empire

The following video maps of the Roman Empire are taken from the Map as History website.

Click on the link below to be taken to a number of video maps on the Roman Empire.

Subscribers’ Corner - Rome and its Empire - The map as History (the-map-as-history.com)

If you do need to log in to the Map as History, the login and password is below.

username: Clonard

password: history

Click on the map of the Roman empire to read an overview of the Roman empire.

A brief overview of the Patrician class in the Roman empire.

History - Article - patricians (infobase.com)

A brief overview of the Plebian class in the Roman empire.

History - Article - plebeians (infobase.com)

An article on the fall of the Roman empire.

History - Article - Roman Empire, fall of the (infobase.com)

Click on the link below to go to the Ancient Rome Lib Guide.

Ancient Rome - Humanities - LibGuides at Clonard College Geelong

The Japanese Empire

Click on the image above to read about the early modern period of Japan (Edo) 1615-1868.

Below is a link to the Meiji period of Japan when the country gradually progressed into the modern world.

Meiji Restoration: Edo Period & Tokugawa Shogunate | HISTORY

Below is a link to the Japanese caste system of Feudalism. There are also brief links to other forms of feudalism in India and Britain.

Japan and its feudal system | Social Hierarchy around the world (wordpress.com)

Here is a link to the Lib guide: Humanities- Japanese History.

Japanese history - Humanities - LibGuides at Clonard College Geelong

You will find a lot of useful information on Ancient Japan here.

It can also be found at subjectguides/humanities/Japanese history.

The Ottoman Empire

Click on the link below to go to a map of the Ottoman empire.

History - Image - Ottoman Empire, 1359–1520 (infobase.com)

Click on the quote below to read an article on the Ottoman empire from the Khan academy.

The British Empire

Click on the image above to read an overview of the British Empire.

Timeline of the British Empire

Timeline of the British Empire - Historic UK (historic-uk.com)

An overview of the empire from British Empire for kids.

The British Empire Facts for Kids The British Empire Facts for Kids (historyforkids.org)

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