The Ottoman Empire, which at the time this map was drawn included much of the ... American relations with the Ottoman Empire in the 19 th century were either commercial or missionary.

Under Augustus and his successors, the empire experienced ... rapidly in the third century AD. Between 235 and 285, Rome had more than 20 emperors, and as this map shows, most died violent deaths.

The tactile map, an innovation of the 19 th century, allowed both blind and sighted students to feel their way across a given geography. Writing for the digital archive 19 th-Century ...

The Byzantine Empire, also called Byzantium, was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued on after the western half of the empire collapsed. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The best maps ... Gupta Empire, a minor line of the clan ruled in Magadha. Down south, the Kalabhras kingdom crumbled. The Chalukyas ruled southern and central India from the 6th century to ...

Why was the first century so turbulent ... What’s more, the empire started through violence and depended on force. Emperors could only survive if their people believed they could outgun anyone ...

I spun the globe and drilled down all the way to the street level at Granada, Spain, where I had an early 20th century map of eastern Spain and an 18th century map of "Hispania Benedicta," a map ...

The 1916 map, with the signatures of Mark Sykes and ... deals and conflicts that followed the break-up of the Ottoman Empire and the end of World War One. But the spirit of Sykes-Picot, dominated ...