One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I.
If Adrian Goldsworthy is right in his new book, Why Rome Fell, the United States does not immediately face Rome's fate. The author believes that the most critical cause of Rome's ultimate downfall was the devastating series of civil wars that accompanied the birth of the empire until her ...
the most powerful of Rome's African colonies. But the city fell to the Vandals in the year 439. Carthage rose once again in the sixth century as part of the Byzantine Empire, but in the year 698, it was destroyed in the Battle of Carthage as the Muslims drove the Byzantines from ...
The future of world politics will be about which societies can develop responsive institutions to govern vast geographical space and which cannot. That is the question toward which the present season of anarchy leads. “Why So Much Anarchy?is republished with permission of Stratfor.” Become A Fun...
Why was Constantinople the center of the Byzantine Empire? Why did the Vikings abandon North America? Why were the southern colonies founded? Why was the Roman Republic formed? Why was the Santa Fe Trail established? Why did the Vikings become Christian?
This now may seem odd, but the Roman Empire had been divided between East and West in 395 AD. The Western Empire ended in 476 AD; but the remaining Empire in the East survived until Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD. The Mediaeval Greeks were thus, to themselves and ...
In the Fifth Century AD, the north-western coast of Africa was conquered by the Vandals, a Germanic tribe originating from Eastern Europe, but they, in turn, succumbed to the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD. The whole of the African coast from the Sinai Peninsula to the Str...
Just as significant were changes in the geopolitics of the Mediterranean world.The decline of the Byzantine Empire, which had dominated the eastern Mediterranean, meant the interruption or trade routes to central and eastern Asia.The rise of new political powers signaled a new era in Mediterranean ...
The Byzantine Empire was a prolongation [End Page 814] of the classical Roman Empire; there was also the Holy Roman Empire in Germany and tsarist Russia that fancied itself the "Third Rome." Napoleon consciously modeled his titles and symbols on those of ancient Rome, and the British also ...
The Holy Roman Empire is stuck at the tail end of the Trade Routes, but is a great staging ground for the Protestant Reformation. Again, this feels like an improvement on Pax Pamir, where Herat feels much like Kandahar. Pax Ren’s specific regions give the map texture and character, and...