Mediterranean empires and their historical development

Mediterranean Empires

The world has been witness to the creation and collapse of numerous civilizations which are amazing when looking at their level of knowledge and technology. Starting with Egypt as having the first civilized society in the world due to its fertile lands and finishing with the great Aztec empire which ended once the Spanish colonists came, we can observe man's nature to be sociable and his tendency to leave the rural area in the favor of large cities.

Much of the disciplines taught in schools today have their roots in the great empires that once were. The base of an empire stood in the good strategy of its leaders, as the community had been organized into groups depending on the place that each person or family had within the respective society.

Consequent to the emergence of the pharaoh dynasty of Egypt, similar societies started to appear around the Mediterranean with the Greece and the Hittites forming their communities. In general, all of the cultures relied on conquering the surrounding territories and attaching them to the bigger state. However, in spite of the fact that overcoming other territories had been an extremely profitable business, the funds for an empire to thrive did not come just from robbing other nations. Thus, the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean began to exploit the natural resources, and later to open the trade business with gold, silver, copper, and pottery.

Approximately 1500 B.C., the Egyptians had been one of the strongest nations on the planet, as they owned great riches and had numerous other nations as their subordinates. The only force powerful enough able to resist and even to pose a threat for the Egyptians had been the Hittites that owned most of the territory north of the Mediterranean sea. The two nations had constantly attacked each other without any of the two winning over the other.

The Mycenaean's had focused on the trade business more instead of conducting warfare and as a paradox, the weaker nation managed to evade the war between the Egyptians and the Hittites.

Around the year of 1200 B.C. all off the three important Mediterranean civilizations had stopped from their remarkable advance and collapsed with no actual information regarding to the reason for their ending. Archeological findings show that all three nations had been preparing for war during the period and that an enemy that is unknown to this day had defeated all Mediterranean empires.

Consequent to the collapse of some of the greatest empires in the world, the Greek empire had been surfacing as a nation of great potential and wisdom which gave birth to several of the world's philosophers.

The Roman Empire had appeared differently from the previous empires that surrounded the Mediterranean Sea. Rome had not began their society independently, but it had managed to defeat their superiors, the Etruscans, after more than two centuries in which the Etruscans ruled over Rome and other communities from within the Latin League. Approximately 300 B.C. The Romans had been emerging as leaders over the whole of Central Italy. Soon after their successes in central Italy, the Romans began to expand their territory by taking Southern Italy form the Greece and later the Island of Sicily form their former Carthaginian allies.