His father used diplomacy, he conquered the world: How Alexander became the first great general
The opening of the royal palace of Aigai to the public in 2024 reignited global interest in the life and legacy of Alexander the Great.
The American Spectator16d
Never Had It So Bad: The Decline of the Great British Empire
The inescapable conclusion is that Great Britain is once again in the grips ... per se, but with an empire of 545 million souls, something like a quarter of the world’s population.
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The Prussian Campaign, 1806-1807
The alliance of Russia and France, two great empires, would force the British to make peace. Finally there would be peace and calm in Europe. Only ten days before, they had been bleeding each ...
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How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
An expert on both the Macedonian and the Achaemenid (Persian) empires, and author of A short introduction: Alexander the Great, Briant bristles at the idea that Alexander achieved something that ...
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Three centuries without Peter the Great, the mirror in which Putin looks: "He has no other history to talk about than the Russian Empire"
The current occupant of the Kremlin uses the example of the first emperor to justify his policy: "Just like him, today we have to restore territories and strengthen ourselves". On September 10, 1721, ...
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Zenobia, the Rebel Queen Who Took On Rome
Palmyra had prospered since coming under Roman control in the first century A.D. Sitting at the crossroads between the Mediterranean world ruled by Rome and the great empires of Asia, it became a ...
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Explore the ancient Near East!
Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...