One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I.
In A.D. 395 the Roman Empire was split in two, ever after separately administered as the Western Roman Empire with Rome as its capital and the Byzantine, Eastern Roman Empire with Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) as its capital, according to HistoryHit, an online-only history channel. "...
The Byzantine Republic, People and Power in New Rome, by Anthony Kaldellis Feudal Hierarchy Varieties of Kingship The Eponymous Archons of Athens Return to textThe Origin of Philosophy: Why the Greeks? Note 9 Although very many ships were lost at sea in the pre-modern period, taking crew, ...
Twenty years ago, in February 1994, I published a lengthy cover story inThe Atlantic Monthly, “The Coming Anarchy: How Scarcity, Crime, Overpopulation, Tribalism, and Disease are Rapidly Destroying the Social Fabric of Our Planet.” I argued that the combination of resource depletion (like water...
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 ultimate demise in the west in 476 A.D. ...
As he also points out, the United States is not the only political entity that has been compared to Rome. 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 "...
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?
I stood him and the door to keep from it. He had never seen a and tried to escape by running through the door. I put my arms around him so he could not hit or kick. He finally fell . I called room service. They every noodle dish on the menu. Luke woke up, looked at me a...
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 St...
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...