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  • He became the first king of the Babylonian Empire, extending Babylon's ... Although his empire controlled all of Mesopotamia at the time of his ...
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  • extended beyond Persia into the Roman Empire in the west, and India in ... day Iraq), which was a part of the Persian Empire. He was an exceptionally ...
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  • 5-6,1566) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Caliph of Islam from 1520 ... of the ideal or model ruler. Although the empire continued to expand for a ...
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  • The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire ...
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  • The Battle of Constantinople was fought in June 922 at the outskirts of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, between the forces ...
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  • and Pompey that had enveloped the Roman Empire only a century prior. In ... Lucan was born in present-day Spain, then a territory of the Roman ...
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  • In 330 B.C.E., the Achaemenid Empire established the first Persian ... No written document remains from the era before the Persian Empire ...
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  • *Curtis, J., and N. Tallis. 2005. Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia. University of California Press. ISBN 0520247310 *Trigger, Bruce ...
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  • ), was one of the four khanates within the Mongol Empire. It was centered ... khan and ultimate sovereign of the entire empire. Hulegu's descendants ...
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  • Chandragupta II (referred to as Vikramaditya or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) stands as one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire. His ...
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  • Europe which had already had cost the Empire most of its Balkan provinces ... it wanted to preserve what was left of the empire. The promised decentralization ...
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  • and grew to become the core elite of the Qing empire. The fundamental ... at strategic points throughout the empire. Membership in the Eight ...
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  • sovereign country of Punjab and the Sikh Empire. His Samadhi is located in ... Singh reversed this trend. When the Sikh empire finally fell to the English ...
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  • B.C.E.), was the founder of the Akkadian Empire. He is only the third king ... Sargon's vast empire is known to have extended from Elam to the ...
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  • The Ghaznavid Empire was a KhorāṣānianClifford Edmund Bosworth, 2006. [http://www.iranica.com/articles/v10f6/v10f608.html Ghaznavids] Encyclopaedia ...
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  • ancient African empires such as the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, Songhai ... their fellows to form an extensive and powerful empire. ...
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  • During the time of Emperor Chi-Woo the empire reached its greatest extent ... ===Fall of the empire=== As with all empires in history, the Shinshi ...
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  • in 323 and the subsequent division of his empire among his generals, Ankara ... The city subsequently fell to the Roman Empire in 189 B.C.E. and became ...
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  • diplomat and colonial administrator. A loyal son of Empire, Lord Cromer served in India and Egypt and became one of the most well known colonial officials ...
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  • commissioned him to paint The Course of Empire (1836), a five-canvas extravaganza ... In March 1839, following the success of The Course of Empire, Cole ...
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