I don't know what the original empire was, so I don't know what the "others" are, but here some examples:
- the Aztec empire. Contribution: the cultivation of cocoa plant
-the Roman Empire. Contribution: roads, aqueducts, spread of latin script
- Islamic Empire. Contribution: maintenance of ancient Greek knowledge in their libraries and contributions to medical knowledge
It is<span> a practice in which a </span>political party<span>, after winning an election, gives government </span>civil service<span> jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party as opposed to a </span>merit system<span>, where offices are awarded on the basis of some measure of </span>merit<span>, independent of political activity.</span>
He was the President of the Confederate States of America. He ran the south during the civil war. <span />
