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 ...

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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We've rounded up and ranked the most powerful and influential empires in history, from the globe-spanning dominions of European colonialism to the great conquests of the ancient world. Read on to see ...