Imperial Heroes

Khan Noonien Singh

Themes Dominance Empires and Imperialism Great Man Theory: Aristotle, George Hegel, Thomas Carlyle

Emperors

• total war and benevolent imperialism in Southwest Asia
  • Assyrian Assurbanipal * 668-663 B.C.E. (UChicago Oriental Institute Assyrian Gallery)
    
    
  • Achaemenid Persian "king of kings" Cyrus 558-530 B.C.E. (Darius, Xerxes)
    
    
  • Persepolis (Images of Ancient Iran; UChicago Oriental Institute Persepolis
    
    
• great men and fleeting empires
  • Alexander * 336-323 B.C.E.
    
    
  • Asoka * 272-232 B.C.E.
    
    
  • Qin Shihuangdi 221-210 B.C.E.
    
    
  • Republican Emperor Augustus 31 B.C.E.-14 C.E.
    
    

Empires and Barbarians

• empires and their weaknesses
  
  
• who is the real barbarian? (A Taste of Armageddon)
  
  
• Pax Romana for all? Aelius Aristeides, Tacitus, Josephus
  
  
• Han Empire
  
  
• legacies
  
  

Conclusions

• geographic connections
  
  
• rise and fall of empires
  
  
• dominance