In 1071, a small nomadic dynasty—named the Seljuks after their founder—fought a battle against Byzantine forces under the ...

Taken as boys and trained for war, the Janissaries became the most feared infantry in the world - the backbone of the Ottoman war machine. China claps back with its own tariffs on US imports in ...

Against all odds, the Han Empire exhibited greater income inequality than its Roman counterpart. And not only that: the degree of economic extraction (that is, how much the state took from its ...