Empire of Alexander the Great looks at what made Alexander a brilliant military tactician and a charismatic leader.
It also explores what the Eastern world learned through contact with
Alexander and what Alexander brought the West from the Persian Empire.
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In the early third century AD the Roman Empire was a force to be
reckoned with, controlling vast territories and wielding enormous
political power from Scotland to the Sahara.
400 years later this mighty Empire was falling apart in the face of successive problems that the rulers failed to deal with.
Exploration in the Age of Empire examines the way in which all the great explorers who served the European empires of the modern era became popular celebrities, unlike their predecessors, and illustrates the roles of explorers as propagandists.
It is the best known frontier in the entire Roman Empire and stands as
a reminder of the past glories of one of the world's greatest
civilisations.
Its origins lie in a visit by the Emperor Hadrian to Britain in AD 122
when he ordered the wall to be built to mark the northern boundary of
his Empire and "to separate the Romans from the Barbarian"'.
Empire of the Mongols details
how the Mongols were able to sweep so swiftly and effectively across
the plains and establish a great empire, and why it was ultimately an
empire they could not control.
