by Aseem Gupta | Jan 31, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
At its greatest extent in the early twentieth century, the British Empire governed approximately a quarter of the world’s land surface and population. Its territories stretched across North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 30, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Britain still has a king, but the man who occupies the throne today exercises very different powers from the monarchs who ruled England a thousand years ago. King Charles III opens Parliament, appoints prime ministers, receives ambassadors, grants Royal Assent to...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 29, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Britain existed long before anyone called it Britain, and the United Kingdom emerged thousands of years after the first people settled its shores. The country that exists today was not founded by one ruler, created through a single conquest, or inherited unchanged...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 28, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
In July 1799, French soldiers serving in Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian expedition discovered a broken stone slab near the town of Rashid, known to Europeans as Rosetta. The inscription was a decree issued in 196 BCE during the reign of Ptolemy V, written in three...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 27, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
The history of Persia is a history of empires that disappeared and a civilization that repeatedly survived them. From the ancient cities of Elam to the Achaemenid kings, from Alexander’s conquests to the rise of Islam, and from the Safavid shahs to the modern...
