It usually does, within a generation after the Empire comes.

If the Empire ever came so far, it would not be in our lifetime.

And at least once the Empire came in on someone's side it had a record of staying the distance.

The Empire has come to us, through our representative, and complained.

It is not at all clear why the empire and Christianity came into conflict in the first place.

What was the Empire coming to, when a man and a woman could be condemned to death, without trial, just for falling in love?

I don't think the Empire will be coming back.

With the dissolution of the Soviet empire had come freedom.

That family didn't just disappear when the empire came to an end.

Attitudes toward rape changed as the empire came under Christian rule.