Defeating the great Attila ... Roman borders. To help repel these attacks, Rome began forming complex alliances and counter-alliances with the barbarians. More and more, the empire relied on ...

The ancient rulers of the region, the mighty Wari (Huari) lords who reigned from a capital near modern ... the dawn of empire. Massed on a high, cold Peruvian plain north of the great lake in ...

He then used his power to secure the governorship of Gaul (modern day ... adopted his great nephew, Augustus. He also moved fast to strengthen the northern borders of the empire and tackle its ...

Source: TED-Ed While in power, Mansa Musa expanded the borders of his empire tremendously ... he ruled all (or parts) of modern day Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali ...

At the time of the major empire ... on the borders, that the barbarians may be coming in at any moment, the Persians are dangerous, the Germans are dangerous and so on. There's a great sense ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire ... where Xenophon saw the great Assyrian city of Calah standing in ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have just identified the site of Alexander the Great's first victory over the Persian Empire ... backed with the modelling and the modern-day landscape, match up perfectly.

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire ... Romans took great care with ...

In modern economies, central banks fight inflation ... their way around paying tariffs to Roman authorities. The empire’s borders were so long traders could sometimes avoid tariff check points ...

Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and ... begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the Russian empire southwards and westwards ...