Rise and Fall of the Maurya Empire
It dominated India from 321 BCE to 185 BCE becoming the subcontinents earliest Empires. Whether influenced of Alexander the Great or not, it placed huge lands under the command of Mauryan Emperors. At its center, Pataliputra, a show piece of wealth, sophistication, and piety of the powerful Mauryan Empire.
Rise and Fall of the Dahomey Kingdom
In the west coast of Africa, a kingdom rose that defied European ideas of African civilization as disorganized, chaotic, and unsophisticated. The Kingdom of Dahomey left us the Royal Palaces of Abomey as a testament to its achievements as a kingdom – powerful, artistics, and wealthy. Wealth powered by men and women sold to slavery and shipped to the New World powering the Triangular Trade of the Atlantic.
Victims for Sacrifice in The History of Dahomy, An Inland Kingdom of Africa, 1793 |
History of the Kingdom of Georgia - Part 1
Large
empires dominated the history of the world. But stories of small countries
struggling to survive between the wars of empires filled the margins. Some
became spheres of influence, puppets in proxy wars of stronger empire, but others
succeeded in becoming independent and even achieved their very own golden ages
that made their descendants proud. Such was the story of the Kingdom of
Georgia.
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