The Austro-Hungarian Empire, this vast zone to the southern part of Europe, is divided up into a range of smaller states," said Heffernan.

You've no doubt heard the saying, "The sun never sets on the British Empire." This was true, until the 1920s when colonialism ...

Challenging the Idea of European Military Prowess in the Age of Expansion In an insightful look at European expansion from about 1500 through about 1800, Prof. Sharman (Cambridge) makes a convincing ...

Europe’s back is against the wall — Putin’s wall. The meeting in Paris of European leaders who are ready to defend Ukraine in the face of U.S. withdrawal was an opportunity for Europe to ...

At the same time, the rise of major Islamic empires in Eurasia and the growing contact between Europe and the wider world provide students with important points of comparison between European and ...

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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alan Mikhail EMPIRES OF THE WEAK The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the ...

European colonialism has been far and away the worst offender in this regard in the last 500 years. Take a look at this GIF charting the rise and fall of (mostly) European empires from 1492, when ...

Tell-tale relics of Europe's colonial period, the Mongol empire and the Arab slave trade can be found in the genes of modern humans, scientists said Thursday.

Europe Before World War I Vs Today When Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, few could have known it would reverberate ...

Kyrgyzstan is steeped in history, with a Russian presence going back to the 1800s, when the czar vied with Europe’s empire builders and redrew Russia’s map of Central Asia to include ...