Yet none of this was due to a lack of leadership on Andronikos ' part and his reign could be said to end before the Byzantine Empire's position became untenable due to the ensuing civil war which consumed the empire's remaining resources on Andronikos's death.

He was responsible for much of the expansion of the Mexica domain, and consolidated the empire's power after emulating his predecessor.

The revolt was used as an opportunity by Darius to extend the empire's border to the islands of the eastern Aegean and the Propontis, which had not been part of the Persian dominions before.

Administration of many of the empire's financial concerns was turned over to Imperial appointees and freedmen.

Stilicho was absent in Raetia in the latter months of 401, when Alaric, who was also the eastern empire's magister militum in Illyricum, suddenly marched with a large army to the Julian Alps and entered Italy.

The empire's territory was centred on the Kingdom of Germany, and included neighbouring territories, which at its peak included the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Burgundy.

The peace policy was strengthened by the erection of permanent fortifications along the empire's borders ( limites, sl.

He was the last emperor of the Constantinian dynasty, the empire's first Christian dynasty.

If the cities were treated as relatively autonomous local administrative areas, it would simplify the problems of imperial administration, which as far as Julian was concerned, should be focused on the administration of the law and defense of the empire's vast frontiers.

Jerusalem looked again towards the Byzantine Empire for help, and Emperor Manuel was looking for a way to restore his empire's prestige after his defeat at the Battle of Myriokephalon in 1176 ; this mission was undertaken by Raynald of Châtillon.

Although there is no proof Shapur I was a Manichaean, he tolerated the spread of Manicheanism and refrained from persecuting it in his empire's boundaries.

There is evidence suggesting that the empire's rapidly expanding population was geographically mobile on a scale which, in term of its volume and its protracted and routinized nature, was unprecedented in Chinese history.

It was the empire's governmental framework to rule by establishing hundreds of cities for trade and occupational purposes.

While Rome was no longer the official capital of the Western Roman Empire ( it had been moved to Ravenna for strategic reasons ), its fall severely shook the empire's foundations.

His reduction of the denarius during his rule was the largest since the empire's first devaluation during Nero's reign.

Lower Canada consisted of part of former French colony of New France, populated mainly by French Canadians, which was ceded to Great Britain after that empire's victory in the Seven Years ' War, also called the French and Indian Wars in the United States.

One of the reasons for the Roman withdrawal was the pressure put upon the empire's military resources by the incursion of barbarian tribes from the east.

The first change the Abbasids made was to move the empire's capital from Damascus, in Syria, to Baghdad in Iraq.

The efficient role of the altepetl as a regional political unit was largely responsible for the success of the empire's hegemonic form of control.

The empire's decline was shown in 450, where the emperor attempted to destroy the Northern Wei himself, and launched a massive invasion.

Mansa Uli Keita also significantly increased the empire's agricultural production.

The collapse of the old defensive system meant that they met no opposition, and the empire's resources were distracted and squandered in a series of civil wars.

The Byzantine education system continued until the empire's collapse in 1453 AD.

The Yongle emperor designed them to establish a Chinese presence, impose imperial control over trade, impress foreign peoples in the Indian Ocean basin and extend the empire's tributary system.

* July 9 – Emperor Anastasius I dies childless at Constantinople, age 88, after an 27-year reign in which he has abolished the sale of offices, reformed taxation, perfected the empire's monetary system, but antagonized some with his heretical Monophysite religious policies.

The term was used as a racial category in the Casta system that was in use during the Spanish empire's control of their American colonies ; it was used to describe those who had one European-born parent and one who was a member of an indigenous American population in some countries, while it was used to refer to people of European, African and Indigenous admixture in others like Venezuela.

Beginning in the 11th century and continuing until the empire's conquest in the 15th century, the system differed in significant ways from European feudalism of the same period.

These messengers passed each other records of the empire's status, which are sometimes thought to have been encoded in a system of knots called quipu.

The empire's Magyar population refused to cooperate in the new system, mainly because it flopped on the more liberal changes made in the October Diploma.

The vexillatio system worked initially, due to the mobility provided by the empire's excellent roads and to the high levels of discipline, cohesion and esprit de corps of these units and the legions from which they came.

As a result of the Vijayanagara empire's collapse, the political system of the southern areas disintegrated.

At about that time, the empire's unity starts to split, resulting in a southern kingdom ( Menabe ) and a northern kingdom ( Boina ).

For the first half of its existence the empire's power rested primarily on the Kutama Berbers and their strength, with a Berber army conquering northern Africa, Palestine, Syria and, for a short time, Baghdad.

In 1657, after a series of upheavals, a number of Arab clans from the northern and eastern Levant were dispatched to the city to reassert Ottoman authority, and loyalty from amongst these clans staved off challenges to the empire's authority by rival regional leaders, like Dhaher al-Omar in the 18th century, and Muhammad Ali — who briefly ruled Nablus — in the 19th century.

Serres became the site of a major fortress built by the Byzantine Empire to guard the empire's northern frontier and the strategic Rupel Pass into Bulgaria.

In the empire's most northern state of Walo, women could aspire to the office of Bur and rule the state.

King Seon concentrated heavily on the empire's territorial expansion, and led campaigns that resulted in the absorbing of many northern Malgal tribes including Heishui Mohe.

At the time of the empire's maximal extension under Trajan ( AD 117 ), Rome controlled the entire Mediterranean as well as Gaul, parts of Germania and Britannia, the Balkans, Dacia, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.

With his father-in-law and ally securing the empire's western flank, Tigranes was able to conquer territories in Parthia and Mesopotamia and annex the lands of the Levant.

Timur ( Tamerlane ), the founder of the dynasty, expanded the empire's realm to include Mesopotamia, Iran, and all of Transoxiana, with its capital located in Samarkand.

The Emperor's attempts to bolster the empire's defenses by special concessions to Byzantine and Bulgarian notables in the frontier zone backfired, as the latter built up regional autonomy.