User:RemiCogan
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Hey, there. Feel free to look around at the vast emptiness of my user pages. I probably won't be touching it again for quite some time, so you'll have to put up with this lackluster display. Sorry 'bout that.
Some info about me:
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- I'm an undergraduate student at UMass Amherst working to complete a history major, French minor, and biology minor along with pre-med requirements.
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- As you've probably guessed, I have ecclectic interests, though on Wikipedia, I tend to focus upon editing history, literature, anime, and video game articles.
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- Thanks to what's seemed like thousands of painful hours writing papers in both English and French, I can edit for grammar, clarity, and style rather well . . . I think ;)
Now for a splash of color . . .
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Well, seems I have a thing or two to learn about subpages, among other things, so I'll just be sandboxing here, for now. Test . . .
[edit] Great Powers Throughout History
[edit] East Asia pre-1500 CE
| Country | Dates | Rise | Downfall | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qin Dynasty | 221-207 BCE | The founding of the Qin Dynasty | The death of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor | First unification of China |
| Han Dynasty | 202 BCE-220 CE | The coronation of Emperor Gaozu | The abdication of Emperor Xian | Ruled China; dynastic interruption from CE 9-24 by Wang Mang |
| Sui Dynasty | 581-618 | Emperor Wen seizes control of northern and southern China | The overthrow of Emperor Gong | Ruled China |
| Tang Dynasty | 618-907 | The overthrow of Emperor Gong | The overthrow of Emperor Ai | Ruled China; interrupted by Empress Wu from 690-705 |
| Song Dynasty | 960-1276 | Emperor Taizu reunifies northern and southern China | Kublai Khan seizes the Song capital, Hangzhou | Ruled China; territory diminished to Southern China |
| Jin Dynasty | 1127-1234 | The sack of Kaifeng, the Song Dynasty's first capital | Conquest by Ogedei Khan | Ruled Northern China and Manchuria |
| The Mongolian Empire | 1214-1340 est. | Genghis Khan defeats and receives tribute from the Jin Dynasty | The Black Death, decline of the Silk Road and communication networks | Directly ruled territory from Korea and Vietnam to the Vistula River and Mesopotamia; the empire's component states of Yuan China, the Ilkhanate, the Golden Horde, and the Chagatai Khanate continued as completely independent states. |
| Yuan Dynasty | 1271-1369 | Kublai Khan revives the title of Emperor of China | Ming conquest of Shangdu | Self-governing part of the Mongol Empire; the Yuan continued to rule Mongolia after its grip on China slipped. |
| Ming Dynasty | 1369-1644 | Expulsion of the Yuan from China | Qing conquest of Beijing | Ruled China; the Ming did not completely collapse until 1662 |
[edit] Western Civilization pre-1500 CE
| Country | Dates | Rise | Downfall | Notes |
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| The Carthaginian Empire | 575 BCE-202 BCE | The fall of Tyre to the Assyrians, which let Carthage assume leadership of the Phoenician colonies | The Battle of Zama | Ruled much of the coasts of modern Tunisia, Lybia, Algeria, Morocco, and Spain; also ruled Corsica, Sardinia, and Western Sicily |
| Alexander's Empire | 336 BCE-323 BCE | Submission of most of the Greek City-States to Alexander | Death of Alexander the Great | Ruled an area from Greece and Cyrenaica to the Indus River; though the empire was theoretically still united after Alexander's death, generals seized control of its peices, which later became Ptolemaic Egypt, Macedonia, and the Seleucid Empire. |
| Macedon | 272 BCE-197 BCE | The death of Pyrrhus at Argos | The Battle of Cynoscephalae | Under the Antigonid Dynasty; ruled directly and indirectly much of Greece, the Balkans, and Asia Minor |
| Ptolemaic Egypt | 301 BCE-170 BCE | The Battle of Ipsus | The invasion of Antiochus IV Epiphanes | Ruled Egypt, Cyrenaica, Palestine, Cyprus, and various territories in Greece and Asia Minor |
| The Roman Republic | 275 BCE-27 BCE | The Battle of Beneventum | The First Settlement between Octavian and the Roman Senate | Continued as the Roman Empire |
| The Roman Empire | 27 BCE-475 CE | The First Settlement between Octavian and the Roman Senate | The overthrow of Emperor Julius Nepos | At its height, ruled virtually all of Europe west of the Rhine and south of the Danube, lower Great Britain,Dacia, North Africa, Asia Minor, the Levant, part of Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. |
| The Hun Empire | 432 CE-454 | Unification of the Huns under Ruga | The Battle of Nedao | - |
| 1721-Present | The Great Northern War | - | Under Romanov Dynasty, Communism, and now a federation; current power from military strength, UN veto, extensive resources, and possession of a vast nuclear stockpile | |
| Spain | 1469-1713 | Unification of Spain | Treaty of Utrecht | Under Hapsburg Dynasty and Bourbon Dynastys |
| Sweden | 1611-1721 | The Ingrian War | The Great Northern War | - |
| The United States | 1898-Present | Spanish-American War | - | - |
| Country | Dates | Rise | Downfall | Notes |
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| Austria/ Austria-Hungary | 1526-1918 | Battle of Mohács | World War One | Under the Habsburg Monarchy. |
| China | 1368-1842, 1978-present | The founding of the Ming Dynasty. Economic Explosion. | The First Opium War (1842) | Under the Ming and Qing dynasties. Today under People's Republic of China |
| Denmark | 1568-1648 | The start of the Eighty Years' War | The Thirty Years' War | - |
| England/ Great Britain/ United Kingdom | 1346-1453, 1689-Present | The Battle of Crécy (1346), The War of the Grand Alliance (1689) | The Battle of Castillon (1453) | Under the Plantagenet Dynasty, the Houses of Lancaster, Stuart, Hanover, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Windsor, and the British Parliament. |
| France | 1214-Present | The Battle of Bouvines | - | Under the Capetian Dynasty, Valois Dynasty, the House of Bourbon, Napoleon, Napoleon III, and multiple French republics. |
| Germany | 1871-Present | German Unification | - | Under Hohenzollern Dynasty, Hitler, and now a republic. |
| India | 1990-Present | Economic Explosion | - | |
| Italy | 1861-1945 | Italian Unification | World War Two | Under Savoy Monarchy and later Mussolini |
| Japan | 1905-Present | Russo-Japanese War | - | Slumped post-World War II, but recovered by 1970s. |
| The Mughal Empire | 1526-1739 | Invasion of India | Social and Religious Strife | Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan |
| The Netherlands | 1579-1702 | Union of Utrecht | Death of William III of Orange | - |
| The Ottoman Empire | 1453-1918 | Conquer of Constantinople | World War One | Under Ottoman Dynasty |
| Poland-Lithuania | 1385-1648 | Union of Krewo | The Deluge | - |
| Portugal | 1415-1581 | Portuguese Colonization | Spanish annexation | - |
| Prussia | 1763-1871 | Seven Years' War | German Unification | Under Hohenzollern Dynasty; can be said to be directly succeeded by German power |
| The Venetian Republic | 1381-1516 | Triumph in the War of Chioggia. | End of the War of the League of Cambrai. | Goverend by a mixture of monarchy, oligarchy, and republicanism. |
| Russia/ The Soviet Union | 1721-Present | The Great Northern War | - | Under Romanov Dynasty, Communism, and now a federation; current power from military strength, UN veto, extensive resources, and possession of a vast nuclear stockpile |
| Spain | 1479-1713 | The union of the kingdoms of Léon, Castile, and Aragon under Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand | Treaty of Utrecht | Under Hapsburg Dynasty and Bourbon Dynastys |
| Sweden | 1611-1721 | The Ingrian War | The Great Northern War | - |
| The United States | 1898-Present | Spanish-American War | - | - |
Weatherford, Jack. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (New York : Crown, 2004) ISBN 0609610627.
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