Chengde's temples will give you a little taste of China's diversity
Now the journey of 225 kilometres takes me just 59 minutes on China's incredible high-speed rail network. The slow procession ...
Historical Fantasy Novels Offer a Magical Escape Into the Past
Shannon Chakraborty is the critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author of the Daevabad trilogy and “The ...
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When Did Rome Fall? Inside The Murky History Of The Roman Empire’s Collapse
The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in history. Starting in 27 B.C.E. after the fall of the Roman Republic, the impact of the Roman Empire — and its expansion across Europe and beyond — ...
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Genghis Khan, his conquests, and the formation of his empire – How he compares to Alexander the Great
How an obscure and penniless man became the leader of such a large army remains a mystery, as the only source is the Secret History of ... exists today. The Mongol Empire’s Campaigns Genghis ...
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The Mongol Archive: Medieval Links Between France and Mongolia
In 1307, Hayton of Corycus, a member of the Armenian royal family who fought on the side of the Mongols in Persia and the Middle East, wrote a history ... known as the Yuan Empire, fell.
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The Empire
None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...