By Michael Kohn Eight centuries ago, Mongolia ascended to the world’s consciousness after Genghis Khan and his equestrian ...

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A lot changes when you enter a new age in Civilization 7, and it's easy to miss the details. Here's what you need to know.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

How Ancient India Transformed the World', highlights India’s often-forgotten role as an economic and civilisational hub ...

While excavating Visegrád Citadel, a 13th-century fortress north of Budapest, Hungary, that was once a royal residence, archaeologists uncovered a trove of military history. Inside a filled-in moat, ...

For more than 400 years, between 1500 and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Russian Empire grew at an astonishing average ... Vladimir Rodionov/RIA Novosti via Wikimedia Commons. Map of the USSR: ...

During the reign of Kublai the massive and unwieldy Mongol Empire fractured into four parts ... Soon, most of the New World was under Spanish control, as this 1582 map of South America shows. The ...

There’s now a sequel, Kingdom of the Sky 2: The World Burns, so if you enjoyed the first one, jump straight into the follow up. This sci-fi Minecraft map took its creators three months to build ...

Grandin is a professor at Yale and the author of the forthcoming “America, América: A New History of the New World” and other ... plans to seize Canada and maps of a United States that ...

Full of emotional and deeply personal stories, the side content in these open-world games often outshines their main plots.