How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today? William
In the 1760’s a clever, young, ambitious Scotsman named Alexander Dalrymple began advocating a theor
In the 15th century, Admiral Zheng He, on the orders of the Emperor of China, embarked upon a series
With the Sassanian Empire defeated and the Byzantine Empire exhausted, there is a power vacuum in th
Eurasia is divided into two great superpowers. Khusrow II rules the Sassanian Empire. Maurice, the l
Three great religions have come out of Persia and all of them have influenced world history. First t
Darius has already been defeated by Alexander. His wife has been kidnapped and has now died in child
Darius III rules Persia and he has already demonstrated his heroism and skill in battle. The Empire
Leonidas and the 300 have been defeated at Thermopylae, leaving the way to Athens open. With the Per
August 480BC; the might of the Persian army, roughly 100,000 soldiers, face down a few thousand Gree
Ionia has revolted and so Darius turns his gaze away from India and towards Greece. He crushes the r
The Persian Empire that Darius took control of was already mighty and powerful; his predecessor, Cam
Born the son of a khan, a tribal chieftain, Cyrus would go on to be a titanic figure of world histor
Persia was the first great superpower. The empire built by Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes and the rest of the
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24th February 2022, but how did we get to this point? After the br
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The history of Russia and Ukraine has been irrevocably entwined for centuries. When the Bolsheviks t
Dawn breaks on 16th July 1918. For Nicholas, Alexandra, and the rest of the Romanov family this is j
Born in Siberia to a peasant family, Rasputin was an incredibly charismatic, physically striking, an
The Tsar has abdicated and the provisional government rules Russia, but Petrograd is overflowing wit
Russian politics is fast destabilising. Strikes, assassinations, and famines have made Russia increa
