from the ancient Roman Empire to the Brazilian Empire of the 1800s. Though largely a product of the past now found mainly in history books, colonialism's effects still linger today.Assembled below ...

Conquering countries and constantly growing their regions has dependably been a most loved past time of people ... life span and force of the different empires, and, as you will see, it contains ...

Laurens wasn’t just painting the past. He was warning his own time. No empire, he seemed to say, is too big to fall. A century before Laurens, across the Channel, Edward Gibbon had already ...