So he reads as he writes seas... around.. the British Isles...

William, you think the Empire's finished?

But needless to say 1839 was a legal basis for the British Empire to protect to protect

It came from about 300 years ago, and it came from the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet.

And then finally in the early nineteen hundreds, 1904 to 1907, you have a series of agreements, ententes essentially means agreements , agreements between the British Empire and France, between the British Empire and the Russian Empire, to essentially get on good terms with each other.

The emperor is not as forgiving as I am.

on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that...

India was subject to the British Empire.

Even the mightiest of empires comes to an end.

I have conquered, spilt blood, expanded the empire.

Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome, Proximo.

They were essentially

I've heard this attributed to several other kings, but doing a bit of historical research, it seems to be Fredrick the Great.

(Laughter)

If only you had been born a man... what a Caesar you would have made.

But of the major powers Germany and Italy were relatively new as unified states.

This is how the great empire came into existence.

In particular, you have Great Britain or or the United Kingdom that obviously had a vast empire.

The United States was once part of the British Empire.

That the revolution wasn't just some fluke, that it isn't just some just flybynight country.

Well, you can forget your troubles with those imperial slugs.

Rome has changed.

Leviathan traditional partners, they all look like the Brits and their former colonies.

Great Britain.

Not just that, the whole Empire. He said the steam's gone out of it.

And these empires were not just in Europe

So the sinking of Lusitania was a significant event.

Hail, Caesar.

like the Mughals and the Ottomans.

The Empire finished after the War, because of the War. It changed everything.

And what you have here, and in the First World War, the central powers, you're talking about the German Empire, you're talking about the

Only beggars dream of being emperors.

The empire strikes back.

Follow me Star Empire Entertainment

Which one is the Czar?

This is my kingdom!

You would have been strong.

He's with the Emperor, my lady.

But the story is far more complicated, filled with imperial intrigue, corporate crisis, smuggling, and the grassroots origins of the American Revolution.

Cyrus, king of the Persians, has entered Babylon without a fight the great empire of Babylon, which ran from central southern Iraq to the Mediterranean, falls to Cyrus.

There are even records of people being executed for refusing to grow potatoes.

But they included food as a contraband

On top of that you have very successful British propaganda the... one talking about the atrocities in Belgium, which did actually happen but the British were able to exploit this as a propaganda machine, ...successful propaganda, but they also spread rumors that after the sinking of the Lusitania, that the Germans had their school's children celebrating, and these were all made up, ...propaganda.

This ethnic grouping, this linguistic grouping, tended to be broken up with the Austro Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, entering into World War I you have this decline of the

So, this area, if you go back hundreds of years, it was under the control of various empires.