No matter how powerful their military force, all empires delegated regional power to local leaders in some manner, suggesting that successful empire building required more than simple military might.

Military Characteristics

1. Military strength, including the introduction of new military technologies, and their effective use

2. Farming colonies on the empire's periphery

3. visual expressions of the authority of his power, literary and ritual, constructed on a religious basis

Explanation:

Many American Revolution leaders embraced the concept of an empire growing up in a new country. The concept was consistent with a republic; it meant scale and good influence. As early as 1778 David Ramsay, South Carolina's Continental Congress delegate, wrote that the uniqueness of this continent of the Americas was the basis for a world that was to turn into "The Macedonians, Romans, and British insignificance." A popular "empire of independence" was envisaged for Thomas Jefferson, who protected the vast corridors of the valleys Mississippi and Missouri.