How far did Alexander the Great expand his empire? How did silk weaving develop in the Byzantine Empire? How far east did the Holy Roman Empire stretch? How long were the Sumerians around? What was the distance between the Akkadian Empire and Egypt?
How big was the Mali Empire before Mansa Musa? How big was the First Mexican Empire? How much of the world did the Persian Empire control? How big was the Ghana Empire? Where was the Sassanid Empire? How did the Sassanid Empire fall? How far did the Arab empire spread under the Umayya...
With the unexpected shattering of the Persian Empire by Alexander, his death in 323 BC and the subsequent devolution of the Macedonian Empire into the Diadochi (successors) states, tremendous energy was released from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and north into Central Asia, with ...
Jumeirah did not want the monolithic tower, just 197 feet shorter than the Empire State Building, to cast a shadow on its other beach resort. So, all parties agreed, the yacht hotel would fittingly rise out of the Persian Gulf, connected by a causeway that would be crossed only by the ...
s an excellent combination of an alien environmentwith a familiar system of marginalization. Of course, once we get to the surface, it’s far less interesting: terraforming has basically turned it into Earth but with lower gravity, which the book seems to forget about most of the time anyway...
People often think fossil fuels are made of dinosaurs, but any dinosaurs in our gasoline are from the last couple hundred million years—the later stretch of the timespan—and only a small contributor. The largest portion of our fossil fuels comes from plants, animals, and algae that lived ...
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So far, this has been a story of a city-state enjoying unprecedented power and wealth, lying to itself about the dark parts of how it came to achieve such a status. The resumption of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE was the beginning of a long, uneven decline for Athens. Now, I’ll...
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-Taliban agreement, Afghanistan remains unfortunately far away from peace. The historic agreement paved the way for a full U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the start of intra-Afghan talks on a political settlement of the confli...
Where did the Persian Empire stretch to at its height? How tall were the walls of Uruk? How large was Persia during the Achaemenid Empire? What king did the Chaldean Empire reach its height under? How big is the Acropolis? How large was ancient Jericho? How high were the walls of ancien...