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A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

Jean-Paul Laurens' painting of Honorius Flavius captures the fragility of power in the Roman Empire's decline.

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Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty.

The rise and fall of the publicani of the Roman Empire offers valuable lessons on scalability, adaptability, financial ...

There is a direct line in Central America stretching back more than a century from US-backed military intervention, to ...

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