Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Week 3
All countries that expand there borders to an unreasonable size begin to fall. This is because they do not have the power to rule of that land and you begin to see little bits and pieces break off and turn into other countries. This is exactly what happened to the Ottoman Empire. They overexpanded and ran into political and economic problems. This countries to prove the point that countries need to know their limits so they do not turn out like the Ottoman Empire and many other countries that fall into this problem. You are suppose to learn from the past so that history can not repeat itself. You do not see this problem that much in todays world but, war still occurs and most of the time it is over land.
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I agree with you, but don't you think America is doing the same thing right now, by expanding into alot of different countries, having troops almost in every country on earth, doesn't that mean that the American government is going to follow the steps of the Ottoman and the Roman empires
ReplyDeleteInteresting point and I agree. This is something that has been seen throughout history. Louis XIV got greedy when he tried to expand his borders and he eventually failed and then again with Napoleon and Hitler, the list goes on. I wonder if there is any "balance of power" in the middle east today, like there had been during the 18th century which took down Louis.
ReplyDeleteI think every empire has its natural limit because when leaders start to get greedy, like Chelsea mentioned above, they tend to lose sight of the people's needs as well as the authority over the people. In the end, the leader has to give up the territory just like the Roman empire did.
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