Chandragupta was the founder of the Mauryan dynasty (reigned c. 321–c. 297 bce) and the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration. He is credited with saving the country from maladministration and freeing it from foreign domination.
The British Museums exhibition of choice artefacts from third century BC emperor Qin Shihuangdis mausoleum is essential viewing. Iron age Yorkshire chariot burials will never look the same again – and neither will western art.Qin Shihuangdi, born in 259BC and ruler of the Qin dynasty (pronounced...
the Greek lands in the winter of 1096–97 with few incidents; on passing through Constantinople (now Istanbul), he made friendly, though cautious, terms with the emperor Alexius. The latter managed to extract oaths from most of the leaders, including Bohemond, and helped them cross the ...
he seems to have alluded unto the number of days in the Calendar year of the Medes and Persians: and the Emperor Julian writes, For when all other People, that I may say it in one word, accommodate their months to the course of the Moon, we alone with the Egyptians measure the days...
Alexander the Great had a plan for the invasion of the Persian empire, which was to bring the army of the emperor Darius to battle and to kill or make him prisoner. 1 Hannibal had a plan for the second Punic War: to evade Rome’s naval control of the Mediterranean by transferring ...
In the year 166, an envoy dispatched by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius successfully traveled from the Persian Gulf to China, thus establishing the first direct contact between the two empires. This was after the Romans had defeated Parthia on the battlef(Bombyx mori) ield, taking control over th...
The Emperor of Rome, Hadrian went to war with Israel from 132 to 136 B.C. He intended to eradicate all Jewish identity and religion. He would rename Judea, ‘Palaestina.’This was a deliberate attempt to sever all historical and religious connections of the Jews to their land. His policies...
The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Cases, "without abolishing our arms, magazines, commissaries and carriages, until, in imitation of the Roman custom, the soldier should receive his supply of corn, grind it in his hand-mill, and bake his bread himself." ...
Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Celts, and others: The Cicero brothers on the nature and effectiveness of divination (mid-first century BCE) Assyrians, Medes and Persians: Ktesias on Persian Matters via Diodoros and Photios (early fourth century BCE) Assyrians: T...
Who was Rome's emperor during the Latin War? What caused the decline of Roman Empire? Which areas did the Romans control after the Punic Wars? How did Rome gain and consolidate power in the Mediterranean region? How did barbarian invasions affect the Roman Empire?