The Ottoman Empire collapsed in the early 20th century, One of the largest empires in history, the Spanish Empire, also known as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, spanned over 5.3 ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

Border skirmishes continued throughout the early empire, but the barbarian threat ... leaving the Senate—an institution that traced its history to the eighth century B.C.—as little more ...

World History: Cultures ... and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India’s Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval ...

By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government ... abandoned the land in 1590. The first successful colony was set ...

His judgments would help shape Roman history for centuries to come ... form the basis of our understanding of the Roman Empire in the first century AD.

But alongside original inquiry into early modern history, Jurisdictional Accumulation evinces a commitment to the development of a historical sociology of early modern empires. That is, Pal's goal is ...