European empires
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European Empire may refer to:
- in a historical context, the Colonial empireColonial empireThe Colonial empires were a product of the European Age of Exploration that began with a race of exploration between the then most advanced maritime powers, Portugal and Spain, in the 15th century...
s of the Early Modern period - in current usage, a term for the EurosphereEurosphereThe concept of the ‘Eurosphere’ or ‘European Empire’ has grown in popularity in the early years of the 21st century, and is associated with the public intellectual, Mark Leonard, the academic at the University of Oxford, Jan Zielonka, the strategist and European Union Director-General for...
emphasizing a prediction of growing influence of Europe in the 21st century