Rise and Fall of Empires Paradigm

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Rise and Fall of Empires Paradigm
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1. revolution or civil war
2. Creation of a state ideology (promotes UNITY!)
3. Rise of economic and military power
4. Stability, prosperity, expansion (over-expansion
   creates serious problems!)
5. Restriction of freedoms
6. Huge economic or military change to try and keep
   the Empire together
7. Inability to maintain the ideology (the
   government is so weak, they cant fulfill the
   promises of the ideology)
8. Another revolution