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… used firearms for similar purposes. As members of expanding empires, British and French colonists owned and used guns to … Act of 1833 ended slavery there as part of the British empire, concerns over gun violence largely, though not …

… sort of these city states, you know, brocco, boxer and Empire and that's way way back, Bamiyan which is one of the …

… and undertake giant public works. He manipulates his media empire to thrust his image into every nook and cranny of the … his fortune and the operations of his vast secret offshore empires. There was an array of serious charges, including …

… cities of the early modern world, the seat of the Aztec Empire. Of the devastation, one Nahuatl poem composed … to Indigenous peoples in the Americas toppled a tyrannical empire. This Cortésian fable resonated with generations of …

… the extent of vodka’s influence across the history of the empire has been utterly tragic. Drunken feasts accompanied … Russian thirst for alcohol – and both were ousted as their empires collapsed. Anyone who has studied Russian culture …

… claim that the trading networks that supported vast empires were often created and maintained by ocean-going … trading prowess clear when explaining that the Portuguese Empire emerged from a network of trading posts. One of the …

… in human history, going back to the Iron Age and the great empires of antiquity. During the age of European … follow pre-established political and social networks (of empire and diasporic communities), and occupy employment … one historian to describe the situation there as “a whole empire walking.” Continuing conflict between Turkey and …

… And what allowed him to create China's legendary first empire was his ability to drain wetlands, build levees, … that there has been conflict between the Chinese Empire and its pastoralist neighbors, the Loess Plateau is …

… astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. This book elaborated … to Scripture. It prohibited the reading of Copernicus’s Revolutions , and banned a book published in 1615 by Paolo …

… in Germany were part of a larger wave of anti-communist revolutions throughout Eastern Europe. The year 1989 , often …

… built in the river to measure water heights). Successive empires of Pharaohs, Greeks, Romans, Christian Copts, and … and epidemics. The irrigation projects of the 19th century Ottoman ruler Mohammad Ali allowed year-around cultivation, … was in Aksum, a city-state that controlled a large empire from the Ethiopian highlands across the Red Sea to …

… represented a second country superimposed on the Soviet empire, an “archipelago” in which each camp was an island …