an Islamic state located to the east of Kabardia in what is now Dagestan. Budai I – the Shamkhal of Tarki – was the father-in-law of Tahmasp I (r. 1524-1576), the second Safavid shah of Persia. He had sent his own dazzling embassy in 1556 to woo Russia to his ...
However, before the early modern period, the usual pattern is of one dominantimperial power confronting other and different kinds of polities: China and tribu-tary kingdoms, Persia and assorted Greek city states, or Rome and the tribes ofnorthern Europe.6The language of universal empire still ...
After a humble beginning in 2007, Assassin's Creed has become not only one of Ubisoft's most successful franchises but one of the biggest in gaming as a whole. Originally meant to be a new Prince of Persia game, the series was instead allowed to be a new IP that focused on a secret...