One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

In Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, Ray Dalio—a billionaire investor, author, and founder of Bridgewater ...

From the ancient world to the dawn of modernity, empires have held control for much of human history. And while empires don’t exist anymore, we can’t help but be curious about how big they ...

If Canada allows inequality to rise unchecked, it risks ending up where hundreds or ancient societies have: plagued by ...

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Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the third millennium BC, Cyrus sought to make his Achaemenid Empire the greatest of them all - a true ...

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 ...

minus when it was occupied by Japanese forces during World War II. In his upcoming book How to Hide an Empire, Immerwahr sets out to tell the history of the Greater United States, what lies beyond ...

The Inca Empire stretched over 5,500 kilometres and was the largest state in the world in the 1400s ... in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best.