Greatest empires in history that ruled over half the world; Largest ever is...

Democracy and individual nation states is but a recent phenomenon as most of the world's recorded history has been dominated ...
24/7 Wall St

The 21 Most Massive Empires in History

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. When we think of the great empires of history, the Romans ...
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Empires : perspectives from Archaeology and History / edited by Susan E. Alcock ... [et al.]

The shadow empires: imperial state formation along the Chinese-Nomad frontier / Thomas J. Barfield -- Written on water: designs and dynamics in the Portuguese Estado da Índia / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Two Great Empires Traded for Financial Gain and Achieved a Brilliant Cultural Exchange as Well

For 400 years, the Eastern Mediterranean was the domain of two great powers: the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. As rivals, they fought seven different wars, but in peacetime they eagerly ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Alvaro Enrigue's novel imagines the clash of two great empires in the 16th century

Two empires met in 1519 when Hernan Cortes' conquistadors entered Tenochtitlan and encountered the court of the Emperor Moctezuma. The Aztecs didn't know what to make of the horses brought in by the ...
The Times of Israel

Africa in the 1400s: Empires, Trade, and Power – Never a ‘Dark Continent’

In the early 1400s, the legacy of the great Mali Empire was still strong. Mali had reached its zenith under Mansa Musa (r. ca. 1312–1337), whose fabled pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 revealed the ...
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An introduction to the history of West Africa

Chapter I. West Africa and its people -- Chapter II. The great empires of the Western Sudan -- Chapter III. Europeans and West Africa in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- Chapter IV. European ...