These three empires were ended by world war i. austro-hungarian czechoslovakian ottoman russian babylonian

The answer would be :

- Austro-Hungarian  : arguably are the one who started the world war I, the kingdom was dissolved at the end of world war I

- Ottoman : The kingdom has already been disarray even before the world war 1 because of the revolution of the Young Turks. The wold war 1 aroused more revolts within the empire and it was dissolved in 1922

- Russian , the empire was overthrown by a  short revolution during the world war I , on february 1917

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