Prepare to uncover the incredible journey of one of history's most powerful figures, John Rockefeller. His rise from humble ...

Check out our top 21 countdown of the world’s largest empires. In some cases, more than one empire in history started in the same place, such as China or Persia.

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from ...