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empires  

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  • Empires are supra-societal organizations that bind together smaller political units, which had previously been disjunct, into a single political system. The constituent units of an empire are ranked, and the location of each unit in the imperial hierarchy is fixed, with virtually no opportunities for upward mobility. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; Empires]

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