A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

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India has been home to some of the most influential dynasties in world history, ruling vast territories and shaping global ...

An introductory survey of world history in the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the collapse of the Western colonial empires, the development of relations between the West and the new ...

For a brief period one of those city-states prevailed and became the closest thing to an empire in Maya history ... of the Snake elite into the next world. Royal visages made of green jade ...

And although in Mexico there is a form of government of the Republic, other forms of government have also arisen, for example, the Empire. And it is that throughout the country's history as an ...