Biological warfare, slavery and genocide, have all been committed in the name of
Empire.
From the
Ottomans to the
Nazi's we detail the Top 10
Most Evil Empires in
History.
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Doom by
Igor Dvorkin /
Ellie Kidd
Sources:
10)
Imperial Japan
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking
.htm
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/01/national/media-national/uncomfortable-truth-comfort-women/#.VkMcdWThBFQ
http://www.nytimes.com/
1995/03/17/world/unmasking-horror-a-special-report-japan-confronting-gruesome-war-atrocity
.html?pagewanted=all
9)
The Spanish Empire
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4729402/The-reign-of-Spain-was-mainly-brutal.html
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Spanish_Empire
8)
The Portuguese Empire
http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/africa-portugal
7)
The Ottoman Empire
http://www.history.com/topics/armenian-genocide
http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/armenian_genocide.htm
http://www.britannica.com/event/Bulgarian-Horrors
6)
The French Empire
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1504014/Napoleons-genocide-on-a-par-with-Hitler.html
5)
The Mongols
http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/
2011/jan/26/genghis-khan-eco-warrior
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nHIABAAAQBAJ&pg;=
PA28&lpg;=PA28&dq;=tamerlane+pyramid+heads&source;=bl&ots;=pPZmkFEmbg&sig;=vsIVfA3IXbjAdRKU1yJUB1vmrdc&hl;=en&sa;=X&ved;=0CFEQ6AEwB2oVChMIlNCq5I6GyQIVzBWQCh2CMglv#v=onepage&q;=tamerlane%20pyramid%20heads&f;=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZzlNgS70OHAC&pg;=PA173&lpg;=PA173&dq;=
Siege+of+
Kaffa&source;=bl&ots;=q8e3UkrULZ&sig;=wu9XPSe0b5G06NifrBQ23J0yHnQ&hl;=en&ei;=CqGFS9vbFZWQlAee-tCYAg&sa;=X&oi;=book_result&ct;=result&redir;_esc=y#v=onepage&q;=Siege%20of%20Kaffa&f;=false
4)
Nazi Germany
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/genocide
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/nazi-germany
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article
.php?ModuleId=10005151
3)
The Belgian Empire
http://www.nytimes.com/
2002/09/21/arts/belgium-confronts-its-heart-darkness-unsavory-colonial-behavior-congo-will-be.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.historytoday.com/tim-stanley/belgiums-heart-darkness
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/18/congo.andrewosborn
2)
The Soviet Union
http://www
.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/russia/stalinpurgesandpraisesrev1
.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/russia/stalincollectivisationrev1.shtml
http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/josef-stalin
http://www.britannica.com/event/purge-trials
1)
The British Empire
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/
2012/apr/23/british-empire-crimes-ignore-atrocities
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/19/end-myths-britains-imperial-past
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12997138
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/
2006/jul/22/comment.mainsection
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-truth-our-empire-killed-millions-404631.html
http://newbritishempire.site11.com/british-genocides.html
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