Empires and Dynasties
- Science & History
Ancient Rome
From a legendary fratricide on the Palatine Hill to a teenage emperor's quiet deposition twelve centuries later, told through the battles, plagues, and one bridge-crossing that ended a republic.
30 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Byzantine Empire
How the eastern half of Rome outlived the west by a thousand years, then fell to Ottoman cannon
27 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Ottoman Empire
A frontier warband on the edge of Byzantium grows into a 600-year empire spanning three continents, then dissolves into a modern republic.
31 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Mongol Empire
How a boy abandoned on the steppe built the largest connected land empire in history
26 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Mughal Empire
A Timurid prince crosses the Khyber Pass with cannons and founds an empire that builds the Taj Mahal, then unravels under its own weight
25 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The British Empire
From a Tudor sea captain's turf-cutting ceremony in Newfoundland to the last governor sailing out of Hong Kong harbour, four centuries of the largest empire in history, its wealth, and the people it ruled, enslaved, and starved
30 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Spanish Empire
A marriage unites two Iberian kingdoms and builds an empire that spans the globe for four centuries, financed by silver and built on conquest
27 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Khmer Empire
How a trading kingdom on the Mekong became a temple-building empire that vanished into the jungle
28 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Aztec Empire
From a wandering clan on a swampy island to the dominant power of Mesoamerica, and its end in a 93-day siege
25 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
The Inca Empire
How a highland kingdom without writing, wheels, or iron built the largest empire the Americas ever saw, then lost it in a single generation
26 events · 100% sourced - Science & History
Ancient Persia
Three empires in a row, Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanid, ran the largest state the ancient world had seen and left cuneiform, coinage, and a fire religion behind
27 events · 100% sourced