Empires form

Empires form due to civil war or warring areas in a panic and desperate for unification. In China they had been in a Period of Warring States for many years. During this time Legalist beliefs were forming and the man who eventually came to power took this philosophy and created a large empire of Western China with it. China nad no centralized government and an empire is always formed when there is nothing previously in place before it because it sets up ona whole new idea. This proves true again in India when the empire comes oit from the turmoil Alexander of Macedon left it in. Alexander left India withiut any kind of government so a total ruler stepped up to take complete control forming the first successful empire in India. Yhis happened again when a group of nomadic herders caled the Kushan people who conquered many regional kingdoms and brought them together. This shows that to form an empire a man must simply conquer a lot of small powerless areas in turmoil without strong governments and form a unified area. In Rome, again, when there was a period of weak government and rebelling farmers a man came to power and unified the entire area of Rome. The government that had previously controlled Rome was not fit to run a large empire and it had collapsed so Julius Caesar quickly took advantage and formed an empire from a broken government.