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.

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Both moments of peak globalization ... British Empire began to turn away from the gospel of free trade, relying instead on empire trade, which meant preferential treatment within its territories ...

Packs of visitors inched along, brandishing maps ... At its peak, 2,000 years ago, Petra was home to as many as 30,000 people, full of temples, theaters, gardens, tombs, villas, Roman baths ...

A symbol of the fight for public access to the hills, the country’s first long-distance footpath paved the way for many more ...

In this MMO, you battle, build, connive, and conquer your way across a map that’s very familiar ... and settings including Feudal Japan, the Roman Empire, and Medieval Britain.

On a stony peak somewhere in this region ... Trodden by millions of pilgrims over the ages, this sacred site is marked on many maps as Mount Sinai. Muslims believe that the prophet Muhammad ...

Eater’s editors regularly dine at restaurants and check in with industry insiders to create this map ... its own world. D’Andre Carter and Heather Bublick have slowly created a barbecue empire ...

The typical peak period still is a few weeks away ... Pollen, the reproductive gametes of trees and grasses, has been a known affliction since at least the Roman Empire. Caesar Augustus was an allergy ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...