Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

this group migrated south from the Mongolian steppe and ruled a multiethnic and multicultural empire from Luoyang, the world’s largest city and the former capital of the Eastern Han dynasty.

Sima Qian was born around 145BCE during the Han dynasty. He was the son of the ... On his return, he became a palace attendant for Emperor Han Wudi, then in 108BCE, succeeded to his father's ...

Every summer and autumn, emperors of the Qing dynasty including ... with all main historical relics, information and corresponding important values preserved intact, demonstrating China’s multi-ethnic ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

Han Dong-hoon, a former leader of South Korea's ruling People Power Party, announced his bid for the presidency on Thursday.

In the DVD commentary for Empire, Kershner describes how originally, the scene with Vader torturing Han was longer. Vader did all this so Luke would sense Han’s pain via the Force, and fall into ...