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… north and China to the southeast. Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, … from St Petersburg, the far-off capital of the Russian Empire, for sedition against the tsarist government. …

… nationalism that led to the disintegration of the British empire in the Caribbean. Jamaica had been a Spanish colony … doi:10.1080/1369801042000185642 Hart, Richard. The End of Empire: Transition to Independence in Jamaica and Other …

… peripheries of the expansive Russian, British, and Chinese empires. By the second half of the nineteenth century, …

… to a severe decline in the population of the Roman Empire and, in turn, the onset of a period of economic and military decline in the longer history of the empire. The Justinianic Plague , named after the Byzantine … estimated 30 to 50 million people across the Eastern Roman empire over the course of two centuries, brought about the …

… relationships that connected other tribes and European empires together, Americans sought a new relationship based … transitions between the various peoples, nations, and empires that vied for control over the region from the fall …

… slavery only in the Caribbean, not the rest of the British Empire. Slavery only became illegal in India in 1848, on the …

… what they called Asia, a territory dominated by the Persian Empire and generally encompassing what is today Turkey  and … attributed the astonishing Greek victory over the Persian Empire to “Greekness” itself. According to these writers, … the social complexity they encountered across their vast empire. It allowed some groups to enter the empire peaceably …