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How long will the U.S last? · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith radio program. I'm Gary mccantz.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining, Thank you for joining like to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge God and you are listeners on the say what.
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  Speaker 2: The question is? How long does nations last? Countries? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: yours or mine? A.
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  Speaker 1: Williams recently said that recently President Biden did not recognize
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  Speaker 1: God in his Thanksgiving message, something former presidents warned against. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: the President only thanked the American people and omitted reference
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  Speaker 1: to God as the source of blessings for which many
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  Speaker 1: Americans celebrate gratitude. On the holiday of Thanksgiving, President Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: gave praise to our beneficent Father, beneficent Father who dwell
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  Speaker 1: up in the heavens, and in case anyone forgets to
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  Speaker 1: thank Almighty God for these gifts. Lincoln also issued a warning,
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  Speaker 1: noting that these bounties are so constantly enjoyed that we
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  Speaker 1: are prone to forget the source from which they come.
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  Speaker 1: President Hayes also shared a similar proclamation, stating that withdrawing
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  Speaker 1: themselves from secular cares and labors, the people of the
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  Speaker 1: United States do meet together on that day in their
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  Speaker 1: respective places of worship, there to give thanks and praise
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  Speaker 1: to Almighty God for his mercies and to devoutly beseech
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  Speaker 1: their continuance. The US President Biden left God out. So
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  Speaker 1: the question is how long on average do countries last?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know? And say what.
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  Speaker 1: Average comfort? Countries typically last one hundred and fifty eight years,
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  Speaker 1: while empires stick around for two hundred and fifty years. However,
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  Speaker 1: the life spans of individual countries are hard to predict.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it from the perspective of of you or you, you, you, you,
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  Speaker 1: wherever you live at, whatever your zip code, wherever your
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  Speaker 1: skin tone, whatever your title, whatever your economics. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know how long you're going to live? Look at the
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  Speaker 1: obituaries around the globe and then answer that question or
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  Speaker 1: with those that you know that in your life. Studies
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  Speaker 1: show that an empire survives on average two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty years, but did you know that? To put that
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  Speaker 1: into contexts the world's oldest person that lives in Japan
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  Speaker 1: Number one, Tamiko Atuka born May to twenty third, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: oh eight, one hundred and sixteen years ago, in one
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  Speaker 1: hundred ninety some days. Number seven. If we talk about
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  Speaker 1: my country, Naomi Whitehead born twenty sixth or September nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ten one hundred and fourteen years ago here in the
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  Speaker 1: United States. You know, there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: unaware of statistic which may suggest much about our country's future.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for Americans to see the reality that our
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  Speaker 1: time as a world superpower may be limited and that
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  Speaker 1: the United States global dominion will not persist indefinitely.
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  Speaker 2: Have you looked.
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  Speaker 1: Around in your own country? But how about my country,
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  Speaker 1: the United States? Have you looked around? And this may
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  Speaker 1: be hard to grasp and accept. It has never been
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  Speaker 1: true for any civilization in the past, and it will
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  Speaker 1: never be true for any society in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Say what.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that many Americans do not regard the
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  Speaker 1: United States as an empire in the classical sense, despite
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  Speaker 1: the fact that many people globally do.
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  Speaker 2: Say what?
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  Speaker 1: Since World War Two, the United States this has been
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  Speaker 1: primarily concerned with spreading democracy and freedom across the world,
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  Speaker 1: seeing itself as a sort of global liberator. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a critical consideration of determining whether the United States
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  Speaker 1: belongs in the pantheon of former empire, since, like those before,
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  Speaker 1: it has been primarily interested in extending influence and power.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six, the United States of America will
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  Speaker 1: celebrate as two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Nearing the two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty anniversary of the fall of most previous civilization,
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  Speaker 1: with ongoing internal turmoil ranging from race, to financial disparity
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  Speaker 1: to political tribalism in other countries gradually pulling away from
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  Speaker 1: the United States, it appears that the tides are turning
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  Speaker 1: against us a financial catastrophe or a civil war that
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  Speaker 1: causes the United States to fall apart. But learning from
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  Speaker 1: the past is critical if we are to slow down
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  Speaker 1: the inevitable. And the question is why is China If
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  Speaker 1: you take a look at China survive for five thousand years,
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  Speaker 1: what have they discovered that the rest of the world's
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  Speaker 1: great empires have not. They've seen empires like the United
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  Speaker 1: States rise and fall, and they've seen other dynasties come
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  Speaker 1: and go. There are important lessons for the United States
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  Speaker 1: to learn, including the fact that it's not too late
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  Speaker 1: to save it. You know, I used to always say
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  Speaker 1: to my staff, because I take a sip of my
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  Speaker 1: water when all else look bleak and gleam. And a
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  Speaker 1: follower of Jesus Christ in a right relationship with God
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  Speaker 1: or followers cry out to go of the Scripture. I said,
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  Speaker 1: you notice how God will always come through one time
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  Speaker 1: when everybody else is not mentioning God or even thinking
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  Speaker 1: about God. It's been shown that if we learn from history,
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  Speaker 1: a great nation can endure and outlive others. The critical
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  Speaker 1: issues whether we would do so before it's too late,
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  Speaker 1: says Whims. So you have these secular, historic global empires.
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  Speaker 1: But the question who were they? And you got to
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  Speaker 1: remember now always look at the writer and the motives.
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  Speaker 1: But Porkageese, Ottoman Khmer Empire, it's the open empire. Can
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  Speaker 1: them Holy Roman Silha Empire, Republic of Benice Cush and
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  Speaker 1: Roman Eastern Roman Empire. And when they talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Porkageese in Portuguese Empire date it may have been the
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  Speaker 1: first global empire in history. It began in fourteen fifteen
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  Speaker 1: when the Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator became fascinated by
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  Speaker 1: exploration down the coast of Africa. In fourteen twenty, the
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  Speaker 1: Portuguese discovered the uninhabited island of Madeira and sent colonists
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  Speaker 1: to settle it. And this was the first of many
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  Speaker 1: lands the empire claimed in its five hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: four years and the source was oct reference. After World
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  Speaker 1: War Two, decolonization efforts began in a number of areas,
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  Speaker 1: with many European countries pulling out of their colonies around
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  Speaker 1: the world. It wasn't until nineteen ninety nine that Portugal
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  Speaker 1: gave up Macau to China, signaling the end of the
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  Speaker 1: empire and the source being Landler. The Portuguese Empire was
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  Speaker 1: able to expand because of its excellent weaponry, naval superiorriority,
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  Speaker 1: and its ability to rapidly set up ports to trade
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  Speaker 1: spices slaves, ivory, and gold. They also had enough man
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  Speaker 1: prior to quickly conquered new peoples and gained land. The
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  Speaker 1: sources MUDs, but like most empires throughout history, the conquered
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  Speaker 1: regions eventually sought to reclaim their lands. The Portuguese Empire
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  Speaker 1: crumbled due to several factors, including clashes with the British
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  Speaker 1: Empire in Africa and republican activists in Portugal, which changed
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  Speaker 1: the country to a republic. Number nine was the Ottoman Empire.
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  Speaker 1: It expanded into the largest political entity in Europe and
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  Speaker 1: Western Asia and encompassed a broad range of cultures, religions,
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  Speaker 1: and languages. Despite those differences, the empire managed to prosper
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  Speaker 1: for six hundred and twenty three years from thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: According to Gormley, but.
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  Speaker 1: It got it started as a small Turkey state after
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  Speaker 1: the Weekend, but sending Empire withdrew from the area. Osmond
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  Speaker 1: I pushed the boundaries of its empire outward, leaning on
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  Speaker 1: strong judicial, educational, military systems as well as the unique
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  Speaker 1: method of transferring power. According to BBC, the Empire continued
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  Speaker 1: to expand, eventually taking Constantoble in fourteen fifty three and
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  Speaker 1: pushing deeper into European and North African territories. Civil wars
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  Speaker 1: in the early nineteen hundreds, followed immediately by World War
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  Speaker 1: One and the Turkish War of Independence, signal the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the end. At the conclusion of World War One,
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  Speaker 1: the Treaty of Sebze divided up most of the Ottoman Empire.
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  Speaker 1: The final nail in the coffin came after the Turkish
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  Speaker 1: War of Independence resulted in the new Turkish state.
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  Speaker 2: According to Grumbley.
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  Speaker 1: Inflation and competition and unemployment often cited as key factors
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  Speaker 1: in the Ottoman Empire's demise. Each section of the massive
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  Speaker 1: kingdom was culturally and economically diverse, and its residents eventually wanted.
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  Speaker 2: To break free.
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  Speaker 1: And as you hear me expound on the history of
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  Speaker 1: these empires that are no longer, how about in your country?
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  Speaker 1: Does your country fit this profile or mine? The Khmer
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  Speaker 1: Empire k h m e Er, established in the late
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  Speaker 1: twelfth century by a king located the president day present
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  Speaker 1: day of Cambodia, was the last and most enduring capital
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  Speaker 1: city of the Khmure Empire. Little was known about the empire, however,
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  Speaker 1: is capital city was said to be all inspiring, thanks
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  Speaker 1: in part to one of the world the world's largest
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  Speaker 1: religious conflicts, built around eleven twenty two CE. They began
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  Speaker 1: in approximately eight o two CE and lanceted to fourteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. The empire's greatest king built temples, monuments, highways
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  Speaker 1: and hospitals. Six hundred and thirty years later, in fourteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty two, it dissolved. Now I want you to really
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  Speaker 1: pay close attention to the why and how they how
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  Speaker 1: they was formed, and how they began to be a
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  Speaker 1: global empire, and what happened to them, And tell me
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  Speaker 1: who's left out. The thigh Thhai migration of the twelfth
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  Speaker 1: through fourteenth century CE was the decline of the empire. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: the Thigh created their own small kingdoms, and as these
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  Speaker 1: kingdoms grew in power, they started to attack imperial territories
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  Speaker 1: and took Ingor in fourteen thirty one see EVAs became
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  Speaker 1: the end of that empire. Number seven Ethiopian Empire. Considering
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  Speaker 1: the length of its rule, Ethiopian Liberia were the only
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  Speaker 1: African powers to resist the European scrambled for Africa. The
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  Speaker 1: Empire's long reign began around twelve seventy CE when the
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  Speaker 1: Solomonic dynasty overthrew the Sagwai dynasty, declaring they owned the
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  Speaker 1: rights to the land based on a lineage to King Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: shifting power to the Habesti people. From there, the dynasty
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  Speaker 1: or dynasty went on to become an empire by incorporating
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  Speaker 1: new civilizations within Ethiopia under its rule, with the source
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  Speaker 1: being the New World Encyclopedia. It wasn't until eighteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: six six went Italy declared war against it that the
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  Speaker 1: Ethiopian Empire began to falter. Ethiopia held off its invaders,
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  Speaker 1: but Italy wasn't done, and nineteen thirty five Italian soldiers
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  Speaker 1: invaded Ethiopia in a war that raiged for seven months
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  Speaker 1: into Italy was declared victorious. From nineteen thirty six until
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, Italians ruled over the country.
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  Speaker 2: The Ifiopian Kingdom didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Overstretch its bounds or exhausted its resources civil wars. Civil
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  Speaker 1: wars contributed to its weakened state, but in the end,
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  Speaker 1: it was Italy's desire for expansion that led to Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Ethiopius's fault and think about civil war. Internal weakened it
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  Speaker 1: so that external could take control. Number six The Kingdom Empire.
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  Speaker 1: We know pre precious little the empire and Howip's people
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  Speaker 1: lived over time. Its primary religion became Islam, although the
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  Speaker 1: introduction of the religion may have brought internal strife in
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  Speaker 1: the empire's early years. The Kingdom Empire Ka n e
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  Speaker 1: M was established sometime around a hundred CE and lasted
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  Speaker 1: until the thirteen nineties. It was located on what is
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  Speaker 1: now Chad, Libya and part of Niger. The Empire's history
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  Speaker 1: split between two different dynasties or dynasties, the Dugiwa and Sapawa,
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  Speaker 1: the latter being the driving force to bring Islam to
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  Speaker 1: the country. Its expansion continued, including the period in which
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  Speaker 1: the king declared the Holy War Jihad against all surrounding tribes.
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  Speaker 1: The military system devised to facilitate the jihad created a
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  Speaker 1: governmental system based on hereditary nobility, in which soldiers were
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  Speaker 1: rewarded with the land they conquered, which they passed down
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  Speaker 1: to their sons. That system resulted in the civil war
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  Speaker 1: that weakened the territory and made it vulnerable to attack.
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  Speaker 1: Budalah invaders were able to quickly take Najima in thirteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six and eventually take control of the entire kingdom Empire.
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  Speaker 1: The lesson of the empires that unpopular decisions can create
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  Speaker 1: internal internal conflict, leaving a once powerful people defenseless. It's
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  Speaker 1: the story repeated throughout history. Number five Holy Roman Empire.
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  Speaker 1: The Battle of Legano made twenty ninths eleven seventy six
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  Speaker 1: c E fought between the forces of the Holy Roman Empire,
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  Speaker 1: led by the Emperor Frederic Barbotla or Barbarossa and the
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  Speaker 1: Lombard Lea. The Holy Roman Empire was seen as an
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  Speaker 1: attempt to resurrect the Western Roman Empire. The name, however,
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  Speaker 1: comes from the fact that while the emperor was chosen
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  Speaker 1: by electors, he was crowned by the Pope in Rome.
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  Speaker 1: The empire lasted from eight hundred to eighteen o six
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  Speaker 1: c e and consisted geographically of a large myssection, but
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  Speaker 1: it is now Central Europe, most notably the bulk of Germany.
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  Speaker 1: The empire began when Charlemagne was crowned by Pope Leo
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  Speaker 1: the Third. At its peak, the Holy Roman Empire was
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  Speaker 1: made up of present day Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Lickenstein, the
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  Speaker 1: Czech Republic, Australia, Slovenia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and large parts
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  Speaker 1: of modern Poland, France and Italy. After the Thirty Years
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  Speaker 1: War in sixteen forty eight, the kingdom was fragmented, planting
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  Speaker 1: the seed of independence. In seventeen ninety two, France was
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of a revolt. By eighteen oh six,
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  Speaker 1: Napoleon Bonaparte had forced the last Holy Roman Empire. Francis,
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  Speaker 1: the second to abdicate in the area, was reorganized as
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  Speaker 1: a confederation of the Rhyme Cilia Empire number four. This
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  Speaker 1: bronze standing Buddha dates from the Sila dynasty six hundred
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  Speaker 1: seventy six to nine thirty five ninth century Korea. The
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  Speaker 1: details are sketchy concerning the beginning stages of the empire,
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  Speaker 1: but we know by the sixth century was a highly
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  Speaker 1: complex and linage based society with pedigree decided everything from
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  Speaker 1: the type of clothes one would wear to the size
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  Speaker 1: of their house. While this system helped the empire initially
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  Speaker 1: gain land, it would eventually lead.
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  Speaker 2: To its fall.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, the Republic of Venice the Republic of the
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  Speaker 1: Basila San Marco, which stands in Benice, Italy. The Republic
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  Speaker 1: of Venice is a classic example of an empire stretching
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  Speaker 1: its border so far that it could not properly protect
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  Speaker 1: his capital. The pride of the Venetian Empire was its
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  Speaker 1: massive naval fleet, which enabled its rapid expansion across Europe
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  Speaker 1: and Mediterranean, eventually conquering historically important cities such as Cyprus
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  Speaker 1: and Crete. The Venetian's roof over one thousand years from
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  Speaker 1: the late seventeenth century to seventeen ninety seven CE. It
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  Speaker 1: began with a collection of Lagon communities joined together for
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  Speaker 1: mutual defense against the Lombard's hun and other stepped peoples.
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  Speaker 1: As a power of the Vincentian Byzantine Empire dwindled in
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  Speaker 1: northern Italy. You see the trend of what happens? Have
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  Speaker 1: you been paying attention? You sure.
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  Speaker 2: You? Sure all right?
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  Speaker 1: You heard about pride, want in power, relying on the military,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. Number two Kush Empire Statues of the
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  Speaker 1: Kush dynasty Black pharohs the Kushi Empire Florid from six
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  Speaker 1: ten sixty nine BCE to around three point fifty CE
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  Speaker 1: and what is now known as the Republic of Sadam.
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  Speaker 1: Over the course of his long history. Not much as
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  Speaker 1: known about the exact details of his politics. However, there
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  Speaker 1: is evidence of monarchies during the latter years. Still, the
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  Speaker 1: Kush exerted power over several smaller nations in the area
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  Speaker 1: and managed to maintain power in the region while expanding
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  Speaker 1: south to darker lands with the resource they relied on timber.
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  Speaker 1: If the comedy was heavily dependent on trading iron and gold,
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  Speaker 1: some evidence suggests the empire came under attack from desert tribes,
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  Speaker 1: but other scholars speculate the territories over dependence on the
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  Speaker 1: iron economy led to deforestation, forcing its people to disperse
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  Speaker 1: when he ran out of timber needed to burn to
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  Speaker 1: force the iron. The theory suggests the Kingdom of Kutch
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  Speaker 1: fell because it destroyed its own land. Its rising falls
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  Speaker 1: were connected to the same industry. Number one Roman Eastern
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  Speaker 1: Roman Empire. A large cross stands erect in the infanteer
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  Speaker 1: of the coliseum in Roman. The Roman Empire span several
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  Speaker 1: different eras, but eventually lasted twenty seven BCE to fourteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty three CEEE, a grand total of fourteen hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty years. The republic that preceded it was brought down
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  Speaker 1: by civil wars, which led to the appointment of Julius
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  Speaker 1: Caesar as dictator. As dictator see what happened social turmoil
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  Speaker 1: on plague further weaken social turmoil. You see what happens
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  Speaker 1: from the inside. So the question is how long? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and don't forget about the fact that whether it was
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  Speaker 1: the expectation of land or people, no empire has been
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  Speaker 1: able to restrain social unrests caused by classism. Unemployment is what,
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  Speaker 1: lack of resources ism? Do you notice a trend? But
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  Speaker 1: the question is how long did the Ottoman Empire last? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Oleoman Empire is one of the longest lasting empires
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  Speaker 1: in history. Remember it lasted for about six hundred years,
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  Speaker 1: ending in nineteen twenty two when the title of the
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  Speaker 1: Ottoman Sultan was eliminated. Another question, what were the biggest
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  Speaker 1: empires in history? The British Empire, Mongo Empire and the
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  Speaker 1: Russian Empire are the largest empires in history. Where are
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  Speaker 1: those countries at the data in terms of standing? Another question,
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  Speaker 1: how many years did the Roman Empire last? Well, as
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  Speaker 1: we just share, the Roman Empire, one of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: civilizations in history, lasted for over a thousand years, during
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  Speaker 1: which it had immense power and influence around the globe.
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  Speaker 1: Remember what destroyed the Roman Empire? Well, there are multiple
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  Speaker 1: causes for the fall of the Roman Empire, one which
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  Speaker 1: was external military threats, and I also believed that the
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  Speaker 1: small pots play contributed to his downfall, spreading like wildfire
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  Speaker 1: causing over two thousand people dying every day. But what
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  Speaker 1: I found interesting about all these empires.
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  Speaker 2: No mention.
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  Speaker 1: Of the God of the scriptures. And speaking of the
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  Speaker 1: God of the scriptures, a question for it and to
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  Speaker 1: you and you and you and you, what are the
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  Speaker 1: biblical places still in existence today? Go ahead, have you
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  Speaker 1: thought about Egypt? You know, one of the oldest biblic
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  Speaker 1: mentioned places that still exist today. And I knew that
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  Speaker 1: you already knew, say what that Egypt was a key
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  Speaker 1: location for important events in both the Old and New Testaments,
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  Speaker 1: and today, apart from the conflicts, more than fourteen point
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  Speaker 1: seven million tourists visit the country every year. And then
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  Speaker 1: you have Papo Cyprus, you know, coastal city with ancient ruins.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a city a country that's mentioned in Acts
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirteen where Paul referred to as Saul and Barnabas
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  Speaker 1: arrived after traveling the whole island of Cyprus. And then
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  Speaker 1: you have Jerusalem Israel. You know, I know you know
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  Speaker 1: about Israel, especially on every day in the news. But
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  Speaker 1: apart from that, it's located within the Biblical account, not
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  Speaker 1: your count, your account, your count of my account of
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  Speaker 1: secutor account Biblical count of the Promised Land. Remember now,
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem played a pivotal role in the lives of key
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  Speaker 1: Bible characters, and it's still considered one of the holiest cities.
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  Speaker 2: In the world today.
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  Speaker 1: And then number four, you had Ephesus, you know, Turkey,
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  Speaker 1: which was an important center for early Christianity because Paul
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  Speaker 1: himself lived in the city from ade fifty two to
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  Speaker 1: a fifty four. And remember now Ephesus or Ephesus is
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  Speaker 1: also one of the seven churches of Asia that's cited
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of Revelations. Say what, yes, Remember it
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  Speaker 1: was a part of the Greek and Roman empires and
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  Speaker 1: Bible times in Bible times and today it's ruins are
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  Speaker 1: near Selkook in Turkey. And then number five, you had Rome, Italy.
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  Speaker 1: Remember we just you're talking about Edie's Peak. The Roman
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  Speaker 1: Empire comprives of twelve percent of the world's population, that
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  Speaker 1: had the city of Rome as its capital, and you
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  Speaker 1: see it mentioned extensively throughout the New Testament. Remember how
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  Speaker 1: Rome had a powerful impact and the circumstances surrounding who
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  Speaker 1: our Savior's birth and crucifixion. And then coming to a
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  Speaker 1: number six, you got Damascus. You know Syria. You know
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  Speaker 1: Syria most famously known for the place as Saul was
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  Speaker 1: traveling to when God stopped him in his tracks literally. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: so Damascus has been around since the third millennium BC,
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  Speaker 1: and in Bible times, Damascus was part of the Rim
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  Speaker 1: region is now the capital of Syria. And then you
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  Speaker 1: had Coriminth over in Greece, another city in Paul's missionary travels.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the village surrounding the ruins of the ancient
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  Speaker 1: city was actually destroyed by an earthquake in eighteen fifty eight.
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  Speaker 1: The city of Corinth today is an industrial hub and
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  Speaker 1: lies about three kilometers from the original ancient city. And
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  Speaker 1: then number eight, you had Malta. Remember shipwrecked after a
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  Speaker 1: storm over in Acts chapter twenty seven to twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how that Paul ended up in Malta for three months,
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  Speaker 1: beginning the Christian influence that has continued down throughout the centuries. Today,
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  Speaker 1: Malta is the most religious nation in Europe, with ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight percent of its citizens members of the Catholic Church.
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  Speaker 1: And then number nine you had Babylon. You know, Iraq
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  Speaker 1: a key biblical kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Remember now Babylon appears probably in the books of Daniel, Jeremiah, Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: and most notably Revelation. It's the most famous city from
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  Speaker 1: ancient Mesopotamia, and the ruins can be found in modern
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  Speaker 1: day Iraq. And then you had number ten Mountain Nevo, Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the final chapter due around me, how that Moses
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  Speaker 1: climbed Mount Nebo. Remember it was granted a view of
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  Speaker 1: the Promised land well, today the cities of Jericho and
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem are usually visible from the summit. So as we continue,
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  Speaker 1: while we head toward wrapping up, and I know you're
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  Speaker 1: pondering it all, and I know you're going to listen
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  Speaker 1: to that song, you know, a New World Order by
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Mayfield, powerful song. So what are the biblical signs,
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  Speaker 1: the biblical signs of a deterioration of a country? You
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  Speaker 1: know over in Isaiah chapter nineteen, verse two through fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're going to write it down.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of gives you some signs of a dying nation.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's your nation or mind. But the judgment against
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  Speaker 1: Egypt is instructive because it's a lesson on what becomes
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  Speaker 1: of a nation that opposes the Lord. I didn't say
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  Speaker 1: you a little g God, I said to God the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: So you want to think about these characteristics of a
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  Speaker 1: nation under the shadow of God's eminent judgment. Division, Civil conflict,
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  Speaker 1: Remember how the Egyptians was against the Egyptians over in
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter nineteen, verse twelve. How about in your country?
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  Speaker 1: How about here in America? Social unrest? Remember everyone against
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  Speaker 1: his brethren against his neighbor. Isaiah chapter nineteen verse two.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed that.
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  Speaker 1: As relates to my country? Oh and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Curtis May who has a power of song, on that
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  Speaker 1: too my country. How about political political instability over in
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah nineteen three, the spirit, you know, courage of Egypt
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  Speaker 1: shall fail, I will destroy, confuse the counsel thereof, and
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  Speaker 1: then you have empty vein religion, you know, turning to idols,
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  Speaker 1: consulting with those influenced by demons Isaiah nineteen three. And
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  Speaker 1: then you had servit to to oppressive leaders. Loss of
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  Speaker 1: freedom Isaiah chapter nineteen, verse four. Do you have any
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  Speaker 1: of that in your country? Devain religion turning to little
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  Speaker 1: g gods, consulting with those influenced by demons, being led
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  Speaker 1: by individuals who aren't influenced by demons, individuals taking away
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  Speaker 1: your freedom to communicate, to do, not to harm anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Is that going on in your country?
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  Speaker 1: Natural disasters, you know, drought like the Now River and
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  Speaker 1: there's tributaries dried up that Isaiah chapter nineteen verse five
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  Speaker 1: through six.
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  Speaker 2: Folk.
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  Speaker 1: How about economic failure, you know, agricultural failure like Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: chapter nineteen seven talks about where fishermen were unable to
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  Speaker 1: ply their trade and feed themselves or others like Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: chapter nineteen eight talked about, or industry failed like textile
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  Speaker 1: and construction had stopped, like Isaiah chapter nineteen, verse nine
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  Speaker 1: through ten talks about. And then you got foolish, you know,
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  Speaker 1: unwise and competent leaders, individuals who are over nations, over businesses,
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  Speaker 1: over cities, town provinces, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You name it, states, neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: Like Isaiah chapter nineteen, verse eleven through fifteen talks about
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  Speaker 1: and the question that you gotta finally ask an answer
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  Speaker 1: of your country. But I'm talking about my country is
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  Speaker 1: the United States and biblical prophecy. I didn say in
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  Speaker 1: your prophecy or your pastors or your aman, or your
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  Speaker 1: rabbi or human teacher, or your friends or whomever comes
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  Speaker 1: your heart in mind, is the United States and biblical
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  Speaker 1: prophecy and those things I just sounded off those eight things.
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  Speaker 1: Does the fifth the United States? Because it's interesting to
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  Speaker 1: note that a number of nations are mentioned. Libya's mentioned
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  Speaker 1: by name, Persia which became modern Iran, and Iraq as mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Ethiopia specifically mentioned. But the one nation that strangely absent
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  Speaker 1: is the United States of America. Remember Rome was once
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  Speaker 1: a reigning superpower on Earth, and they had the most
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  Speaker 1: powerful military anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: But before Rome.
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  Speaker 1: Collapsed externally, it collapsed inside internally. First, remember now, remember
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  Speaker 1: the trojan horse effect. Remember, Laurie says, did he think
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  Speaker 1: that we would do well to look at the soul
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  Speaker 1: of our country right now? He said, we need to
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  Speaker 1: take seriously any external threats, he said, But having said that,
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  Speaker 1: what about an internal collapse? He said, The second possible
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  Speaker 1: reason that our nation may not be mentioned in scripture
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  Speaker 1: is that maybe we will simply.
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  Speaker 2: Decline as a world power. He says.
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  Speaker 1: As our country becomes more and more secular, systematically eliminating
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  Speaker 1: God in the Bible, from an education system, courts, and
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  Speaker 1: the arts, we will begin to reap the inevitable results
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  Speaker 1: of you're ready for it.
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  Speaker 2: Sin.
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  Speaker 1: The Laurie said, we were begin to rot from the inside.
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  Speaker 1: So again the question that I pose is how long
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  Speaker 1: does the country last? And then you can break it
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  Speaker 1: down for you own, how long if your country gonna last? Yep,
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  Speaker 1: I just laid it out secular wise, biblical wise. And
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  Speaker 1: so chapter one oh seven, Oh give thanks to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: for he is good for a steadfast love and doers
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  Speaker 1: forever and that's a question you got to ask and
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  Speaker 1: answer in your own individual lives.