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The Persian Wars, also known as the Greco Persian Wars, were a series of battles fought between Ancient Greece and the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the 5th century BCE. The most famous of...

The Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) was a decentralized political order in which authority was shared among the monarch, territorial princes, ecclesiastical...

The Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu, c. 1438–1533) grew from a highland kingdom centered on Cusco into the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. Under Pachacuti...

The Roman Empire under Hadrian (reign 117–138 CE) marked a shift from the expansionism of Trajan toward consolidation, frontier security, and closer imperial...

Bodo was a early 9th-century Frankish farmer. He and his family hailed from a manor owned by the monastery of St.-Germain-des-Prés near Paris and worked as its tenants. He ploughed...

Germanic influence reigned in the Roman Empire from the end of the 4th century CE through the 5th. Germanic individuals took important posts in the government and the military, and Germanic...

The Mitanni Empire was a major Late Bronze Age power that rose in northern Mesopotamia and Upper Syria between c. 1600 and 1300 BCE, shaping...

The Ottoman Empire under Suleiman I (reign 1520–1566), known as Suleiman the Magnificent in Europe and Kanuni (the Lawgiver) in Ottoman tradition, became...

The Hittite Empire emerged in central Anatolia during the early second millennium BCE and developed into one of the major powers of the Late Bronze Age. Centered on Hattusa...

The Roman Empire at the close of the Flavian dynasty (69–96 CE) reflected a period of political recovery and administrative consolidation following the...