For as long as humans have lived in settled communities, some groups have sought to assert dominance over others, and through history the biggest empires grew to cover millions of square miles. But ...

The history of the world is, perhaps unfortunately, the history of empires. As far back as historians can take us, humans have sought to subjugate one another, and some have proved particularly good ...

Democracy and individual nation states is but a recent phenomenon as most of the world's recorded history has been dominated ...

When we think of the great empires of history, the Romans tend to steal the show. Although their empire arguably has had the greatest worldwide cultural impact, it was by no means the largest ever to ...

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December 7 marks the 84th anniversary of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. This fateful event took away over 2,400 ...