


The Mongols achieved advancements in various technologies and ideologies during the empire.An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. The largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire emerged from the unification of Mongol and Turkish tribes under Genghis Khan. Roman's decreased in population was caused by the outbreak of smallpox that was picked up from along the silk road. While China's increase in population contributed to the collapse of the empire, the decrease of the Roman population contributed to the fall of the Roman empire. Just so, what common factors contributed to the collapse of the Chinese and Roman empires? The Gupta fell because of invading tribes in the Himalayas. The Roman empire fell due to attacks by other people such as the Goths.

Subsequently, question is, why did the first empires decline and how did empires rise to their place? China first fell because the Han dynasty lost the mandate of heaven. Often times, the biggest reason for the decline of an empire is that they have become overextended either by reaching too far, too fast or by being forced, often times through economic need, to keep on capturing land. This is turn led to political issues as the government lost territory and was weakened.īesides, what causes the downfall of empires? The economic issues were a result of the military challenges the empire faced. The factors that contributed to the fall of the Gupta Empire were largely military and economic.
