Although he opposes all kinds of violence, he is especially concerned with the violence of empires, whose hegemony enables them to escape moral reckoning and political accountability.
The process of the reestablishment of the Assyrian empire and its hegemony over a good part of the Middle East began in the 9th century.
The Chera, Chola, Pandya, and Pallava dynasties ruled over the Tamil area before the Vijayanagar empire extended its hegemony in the 14th century, and these earlier dynasties produced many great kingdoms.
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As the Russian Empire grew and its hegemony spread, it adopted the tendency of 19th-century imperialist powers to enforce abolition when embarking upon colonization.
At a regional meeting that included Cuba and excluded the United States, Mr. Chávez said that "the most positive thing for the independence of our continent is that we meet alone without the hegemony of empire".
This was not consensual hegemony, or empire by invitation, or rule through surrogates, but the direct hand of President Bush's proconsul placed on every significant lever of Iraqi power.
Through an adroit mixture of diplomacy, political maneuvering and canny horse sense, Britain's Lloyd George and France's Clemenceau managed to retain their grip on their colonial empires and their global hegemony for at least another generation.
Second Punic War, also called Second Carthaginian War, second (218 201 bce) in a series of wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire that resulted in Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean.
With the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the West, cultural hegemony passed to the Eastern Empire, but older traditions remained in western Europe and intermingled with several invaders Germanic tribes arriving from the north and Christians arriving from Constantinople as well as from Rome.
