Search results for "Empire" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and twentieth centuries, its global colonial empire was the second largest behind the British Empire. At its peak, between 1919 and 1939, the second ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- prime minister (mahapatih) of the Majapahit Empire, credited with bringing the empire to its peak of glory. Gajah Mada first rose to prominence as ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Pope Saint Simplicius was pope from 468 to March 10, 483. During his papacy, Simplicius witnessed the fall of the western Roman Empire to the ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 11:44, 13 February 2022
- fell within the boundaries of the Khmer empire, with its capital in Angkor. ... century, Wat Phou, like most in the empire, converted to Theravada Buddhism ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- all the way across northern China. Their empire made contact with many cultures ... the nomadic Turkic tribes together into an empire, which eventually collapsed ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- in 1930, before it was overtaken by the Empire State Building in 1931. Since ... Building was surpassed in height by the Empire State Building. Walter Chrysler ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
- The Dutch Empire is the name given to the various territories controlled by the Netherlands from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556-539 B.C.E. Although his background is uncertain ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- to political expansion. The first empire to develop was the Kingdom ... The fall of the Songhai Empire in the late sixteenth century ushered ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- With the rise of the Gupta Empire (320 to 550 C.E.), Hinduism again ... a center for Buddhism during the Mauryan Empire (322–185 B.C.E.). Ashoka ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
- successes the borders of the Roman Empire expanded and Rome was forced ... Northern Africa continued under the control of the Roman Empire until ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 06:36, 16 November 2022
- Spain's European empire was also divided: Savoy received Sicily ... Emperor Charles VI and with the Holy Roman Empire itself until 1714, when hostilities ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- he was jailed for three years by the Qing Empire and was put under house arrest ... In 1901, under the threat of arrest from the Qing Empire, Zhang taught ...11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- " were negotiated with the Ottoman Empire and in such countries as ... as a jewel in the East of the British Empire. For many, its transfer to ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- Pope Saint Damasus I (c. 304 - 384 C.E.) was pope from 366 to 384. Possibly born in present Spain or Portugal in the Western Roman Empire, he ...13 KB (2,066 words) - 18:08, 24 January 2024
- The Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea existed from approximately 1270 (beginning of Solomonid Dynasty ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- and to the wise administration of the empire. Marcus also served as a ... and just ruler who defended the Roman Empire against numerous threats ...16 KB (2,530 words) - 03:10, 6 November 2022
- c. 2200 B.C.E. by the emerging Akkadian empire, being rebuilt about four ... the quality of work of the Akkadian empire (c. 2350–2150 B.C.E.). ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- As the Roman Empire spread throughout Europe and Northern Africa they ... In the latter stages of the Roman Empire, around the fourth and fifth ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- centuries, the time of the Vijayanagara Empire, provided tremendous dividends ... found state patronage in the Vijayanagara Empire which ruled over entire Southern ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 23:13, 26 December 2022
