| The modern consensus view is to judge the legacies of empire, especially of the modern European empires, very harshly. |
| Along it, empires, kingdoms, and colonial realms have been plunged into war and bloodshed. |
| The Eclogues came to signify Arcady as a place where poetry and love meet with or avoid the worlds of politics, cities, and empires. |
| Some of the matters involved in States wishing to retain controls go beyond the simple issues of ministerial empires. |
| One reason the old empires did crumble was the changing balance of forces in world imperialism. |
| Bosnia took on a special significance as the boundary region between the two empires. |
