The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

The ancient empires on this list made significant contributions ... During the medieval age, Kelantan was an influential trade center in Southeast Asia. It fought constantly with its neighbors.

Dalrymple’s central thesis presents ancient India as the intellectual and cultural epicenter of Asia. Much like Greece ...

Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences ... instead of referring to it as West Asia, we now commonly use the term "Near East." This name began to be used in ...

The Persian Empire: Asia & Egypt: Originally founded by Cyrus ... Mesoamerica: During the 5th and 6th centuries BC, the ancient Olmec civilization was coming to an end in Mexico.

Palmyra had prospered since coming under Roman control in the first century A.D. Sitting at the crossroads between the Mediterranean world ruled by Rome and the great empires of Asia, it became a ...

For centuries, dense jungles concealed the remnants of civilizations that once thrived, their stories buried beneath layers ...

Empires shape human societies, with legacies that last longer than the regimes themselves. Social group identities and lifeways in the ancient and modern worlds alike are inseparable from their ...