Chandragupta Maurya was the first king to establish an empire in India. He died a monk. Chandragupta Maurya is considered to ...

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Alexander encountered Kalanos, an Indian sage, whose wisdom and detachment challenged the conqueror's values. Kalanos joined ...

I remember once asking a great scholar of Rome, Ramsay MacMullen, if he could sum up the history of the Roman Empire in a very limited number of words. His sentence was, “Fewer have more.” ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

A house divided against itself cannot stand”…..Abraham Lincoln Alexander the Great is regarded as one of the greatest and ...

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After Alexander the Great’s death, this Indian empire filled the vacuum. Backed by a strong family dynasty, the Mauryan Empire came to rule most of the Indian subcontinent.

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...