Nor do they all follow the same exact trajectory. Imperial Rome nicely illustrates some of these tendencies. Expansion made republican government impractical, and after the civil wars of the First ...

Isabela shows us what it's like to be a first year student. What's it like to be a first year student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London? Find out from Isabela's ...

Watching Gladiator II, which surely will add fuel to the smoldering embers in the hearts of many men, reminded me how many contradictions sit at the heart of most popular fantasies about imperial Rome ...

The Warband system, which released with The War Within, had a lot of potential for expansion with new features from the get-go. One particular aspect of it that seemed somewhat undercooked is the ...

But then again, these are unprecedented times. Is the idea of a freshly emboldened demagogue with imperial designs really that outside the bounds of possibility? Trump is an inveterate shit-talker.

the rule of law to act as boundaries on an imperial presidency. Trump undoubtedly will be able to upset government norms, but he will not be able to fully refashion democratic institutions in his ...

It is tempting to infer that the villa’s founder may have been a retired military veteran, rewarded for his service with this land, and thus a ‘colonist’ in the Imperial Roman sense. In its rarity and ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire as its coin-based currency accelerated trade, filled tax coffers and funded military conquests. But the empire’s mining and extracting of silver was ...

The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman imperialism, air pollution grew so inescapable that researchers now suspect it caused ...