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… Napoleon filled his Louve with objects from the new French Empire, ranging from Italy, Egypt. The old adage goes "to … the Chinese gathered things from the hinterlands of their empire in the early modern period. West African empires also … taken, of course, there was no Greece, it was part of the Ottoman Empire. So here we are, again, and who owns them, …

… Greek and Russian Orthodox. The answer lies in the Roman empire of the fifth century, as Latin- and Greek-speaking … Son’s incarnation as Jesus make sense? In the eastern Roman Empire, Christian leaders developed two basic answers to … of God, a victory for the “one nature” view, and the Roman Empire enforced this position. A large number of dissenting …

… up images of religious change, civil war, and scientific revolutions. These historical processes gave rise to another …

… religious power. Various caliphates dominated the Islamic empire for several hundred years following the death of the … to 1924 the caliphate was formally claimed by the Turkish Ottoman sultans who controlled the Ottoman Empire. As part of his reforms secularizing Turkey …

… PCBs and Agent Orange―to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically … including PCBs and Agent Orange, to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically …

… was both because the Japanese still occupied most of their empire when they agreed to surrender and because Allied … a destabilizing force in Algerian society. The Portuguese Empire Our next case involves the dissolution of the … memory of occupation by foreign powers, starting with the Ottomans, then the British. As was the case with American …

… as well, that Putin is intent on restoring the Soviet empire and restoring Russian control over Eastern Europe. … Well, I'm sure if Putin could magically restore the Soviet empire, he certainly would. But he realizes that invading …

… power and the rise of Christianity in the Western Roman Empire. He divides the book into five sections, each … a view was rejected in the face of the instability of the empire. The gradual collapse of imperial power made the … attitudes towards wealth as well as the collapse of the empire. In the monastic context, the debate over good versus …

… barrier. From the late 17th century to 1871 the Habsburg Empire maintained an armed “cordon sanitaire” against plague eruptions from the Ottoman Empire. Michel Serre's painting depicting the 1721 plague …

… checkered political history as a contested zone among rival empires.  The “Nagorno” part is Russian for “mountainous.”  … an alliance with Peter, to resist against an invading Ottoman army.   Iranian influence over the region was …

… from their base in Afghanistan. Map of the Khorezmian Empire in 1217 C.E. During this period Khorezm became more … Khiva continued to be a protectorate under the Russian Empire until the Empire itself came to an end in the Bolshevik Revolution and …

… consulted the historic origins of Iraq. In search of empire and oil, England formed Iraq from provinces of the defeated Ottoman Empire after World War I, but British officials ignored the …

… the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high water mark of French imperialism and … the author of In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 from Cornell University Press. … …