| So Hegel carefully distinguishes between the underlying principles of the Persian and the Roman empires. |
| One reason the old empires did crumble was the changing balance of forces in world imperialism. |
| Along it, empires, kingdoms, and colonial realms have been plunged into war and bloodshed. |
| Great empires, kingdoms and principalities have come and gone, but the Papacy endures. |
| It has been the land of mighty empires, a powerful trading nation rich in culture and civilisation. |
| It is written in the wedge-shaped cuneiform script invented here and used throughout the Persian, Assyrian and Babylonian empires. |
