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This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the situation in the Eastern Steppe and the inter-tribal warfare there which saw the ascendancy of the Mongols. Led by Genghis Khan they waged a series of wars which...

This short YouTube video takes a brief look at the food and drink of the Mongol Empire.

An artist's impression of what the Roman siege of Carthage may have looked like during the Third Punic War, 149-146 BCE.

The Mamluks under Baibars (yellow) fought off the Franks and the Mongols during the Ninth Crusade.

Assyria began as a small trading community centered at the ancient city of Ashur and grew to become the greatest empire in the ancient world prior to the conquests of Alexander the Great and, after him, the Roman Empire. While the Assyrians'...

Caliphate (“Khilafat” in Arabic) was a semi-religious political system of governance in Islam, in which the territories of the Islamic empire in the Middle East and North Africa and the people within were ruled by a supreme leader called...

Scandinavians from the island of Gotland began to spread throughout the Baltic region along the Russian rivers in the 700s. While the Vikings of Norway and Denmark from the 8th to 11th centuries are widely recognized as fearsome raiders and...

The Siege of Constantinople, 1453. Illustration by Jean Le Tavernier accompanying a translation by Jean Miélot of Bertrandon de la Broquière's Voyage d'Outre-Mer. Full-page miniature, MSS fr. 9087, at folio 207 vv., created after 1455. Bibliothèque...

Illustration of the Siege of Rochester Castle (1215 CE) by Rocío Espin. Courtesy of Medieval Warfare Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers.

The Siege of Constantinople by the Umayyad Caliphate in 717 – 718 CE, as depicted in the 14th-century Bulgarian translation of the Constantine Manasses Chronicle. The image has been digitally retouched.