Throughout history, a large portion of the world’s population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots

Empires, the largest political systems of the ancient and early modern world, powerfully transformed the lives of people within and even beyond their frontiers

Throughout history, a large portion of the world's population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots o

For more than four thousand years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth, shaping in many respects the human past and present in differ

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