In the fictional variant of the Star Fleet Universe as represented in the games Star Fleet Command II: Empires at War and Star Fleet Command: Orion Pirates from Taldren, the Kzinti Hegemony was named the Mirak Star League, with the species Kzinti renamed for SFC to the Mirak.

He was succeeded by Maximinus Thrax, the first of a series of weak emperors, each ruling on average only 2 to 3 years, that ended fifty years later with the Emperor Diocletian ordered split between the Eastern and Western Roman Empires.

Much of the gaming materials and other writings focus particularly on these Five Empires which control much of the world's northern continent ( only about an eighth of the planet's surface has published maps ).

The guns came into wide use by not only the Indian Mughal Empires but also by Rival South Indian kingdoms.

The successive Persian Empires that followed the Medes after their downfall in 550 BC took these already long-standing military tactics and horse-breeding traditions and infused their centuries of experience and veterancy from conflicts against the Greek city-states, Babylonians, Assyrians, Indo-Scythians, and North Arabian tribes with the significant role cavalry played not only in warfare but everyday life to form a military reliant almost entirely upon armored horses for battle.

Thus South Caucasus became the area of not only military, but also religious convergence, which often led to bitter conflicts with successive Persian Empires on the one side and the Roman ( later Byzantine ) Empire on the other.

And indeed it was a dispute over the allocation of studio days that brought down the axe in 1979 when Hughes attempted to gain an extra studio day for the planned ninth season ( which fell victim to the ITV strike that summer ) following numerous problems during the production of " War of the Empires " ( the sole 4 part adventure that made up season 8 ) which had been given only four days in studio.

In addition, Azurax is called a " plane-wandering archmage " and Old Empires said he has only recently purchased his property in the Hills of Maerth.

* The only Handley Page O / 100 in the Mediterranean theater bombs Constantinople in an attempt to begin a bombing campaign against the Ottoman Empires capital city.

" Further " and " Radius² " were the only entirely new tracks on Burning Empires.

For example in the Space Empires series interstellar travel is only possible via " wormholes " and the running costs of fleets are fairly low, so turtlers treat some systems on the edge of their territory as choke point, keeping their fleets in these locations.

* The only purpose of the image is to help describe the game Empires: Dawn of the Modern World and no other purpose

Fallen Empires was the last set produced only in English although the two previous sets, Legends and The Dark had already been produced in Italian.

Purple parchment was, in the Roman and Byzantine Empires, reserved for Imperial manuscripts, and in the West reserved for the grandest commissions, and often only seen on a few pages.

Ships can travel to any star system within their range, unlike games such as Space Empires or Master of Orion III, in which interstellar travel is possible only or mainly via " wormholes " and it is possible to set up easily defended choke points.

In many real-time strategy ( RTS ) games, the player needs particular buildings in order to research specific techs or build specific advanced units ( StarCraft, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Total Annihilation ).

The papacy's complex relationship with secular states such as the Roman and Byzantine Empires are also objections.

The latter two names refer to its position beyond the River Oxus when approached from the south, emphasizing Turkestan's long-standing relationship with Iran, the Persian Empires and the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates.

Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ( Oxford University Press ; 2010 ); 734 pages ; Examines the migrations, trade, and other phenomena that shaped a recognizable entity of Europe in the first millennium.

Charles ' victory is widely believed to have stopped the northward advance of Umayyad forces from the Iberian peninsula, and to have preserved Christianity in Europe during a period when Muslim rule was overrunning the remains of the old Roman and Persian Empires.

* Venn, Couze " Clash of Civilisations ", in Prem Poddar et al., Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures — Continental Europe and its Empires, Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

The history of late-comers to the nation-state model, such as those arising in the Near East and south-eastern Europe out of the dissolution of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, as well as those arising out of the former USSR, is marked by inter-ethnic conflicts.

According to his theories, the mixed populations of Spain, most of France and Italy, most of Southern Germany, most of Switzerland and Austria, and parts of the Britain, derived from the historical development of Roman, Greek, and Ottoman Empires which had opened up Europe to non-Aryan peoples of Africa and the Mediterraneum cultures.

The use of Solanaceae containing tropane alkaloids for anesthesia, often in combination with opium, persisted throughout the Roman and Islamic Empires and continued in Europe until superseded by the use of ether, chloroform, and other modern anesthetics.

The PAL system spread through most of Western Europe and on into the territories of the old British, Portuguese, Belgian, Dutch, Austria, Ottoman and Chinese Empires.

The crowning of Baldwin and the creation of the Latin Empire had the curious effect of creating three so-called Roman Empires in Europe at the same time, the others being the Holy Roman Empire and the remnants of the Byzantine Empire ( the direct successor of the ancient Roman Empire ), none of which actually controlled the city of Rome, which was under the temporal authority of the Pope.

However, by then the last Schism of Reformation had taken place in Europe in those few decades along political lines, and the different views on the Value of human lives of different races were not taken to correction in the lands of Northern Europe, which will join the Colonial race at the end of the century and over the next, as the slow decline of Portuguese and Spaniard Empires waned.

* Greek Europe and Latin Europe: those parts that fell into the eastern ( Byzantine ) and western Roman Empires.

Initially, the movement can be described as part of the more general nation-building process in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries when the multi-national Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires were being replaced by Nation States.

Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe ( Oxford University Press ; 2010 ); 734 pages ; Examines the migrations, trade, and other phenomena that shaped a recognizable entity of Europe in the first millennium.

Age of Empires focused on events in Europe, Africa and Asia, spanning from the Stone Age to the Iron Age ; the expansion game explored the formation and expansion of the Roman Empire.

The subsequent three games of Age of Empires III explored the early modern period, when Europe was colonizing the Americas and several Asian nations were on the decline.

Age of Empires covers the events between the Stone Age and the Classical period, in Europe and Asia.

Azerbaijan is the modern name of a historical and geographic region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, and formerly known as Aran or Ardan by various Persian Empires, or by Albania by Greeks.

Repentant dacoits, armed with a pistol, are a trainable unit available to the player in Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties.

The term on occasion has been applied to maritime empires or thalassocracies, ( e. g. the Athenian and British Empires ) with looser structures and more scattered territories.

It is relatively unsure what sect of Tengriism was practiced by the Nomadic Empires as some would worship a single sky god while others would worship partners with the god such as the additional deities.

His life coincided with the rise of Emperor Constantine I and the reunion and re-division of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, which is associated with the widespread legitimization of Christianity and the later adoption of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman state in 380.

At the same time while Pan-Slavism worked against Austro-Hungary with South Slavs, Poles enjoyed a wide autonomy within the state and assumed a loyalist position as they were able to develop their national culture and preserve Polish language, something under threat in both German and Russian Empires.

He repulsed the British in four expeditions and had relations with the Central Powers of the Ottoman and German Empires.

His latest project his the Bright Empires series which started with The Skin Map in 2010 and which will consist of five books.

* Booknotes interview with Jill Jonnes on Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World, October 26, 2003.

The tricolour, originally associated with the French Revolution and the First French Republic, had been used by the July Monarchy, the Second Republic and both Empires ; the French National Assembly could not possibly agree.

They were rebels, pirates and raiders from the point of view of the Hittite and Egyptian Empires, in reports of official transactions with Lycians in the Late Bronze Age.

In the wake of China's military defeat, with British warships poised to attack the city, representatives from the British and Qing Empires negotiated aboard HMS Cornwallis anchored at Nanking.

Commercially close with the French and British Empires, Uruguay's crisis met with swift reprisals against Rosas and the Argentine Confederacy from the two mighty powers.

The first fruits of this arrangement, which was based on no firmer foundation than the forged " Donation of Constantine ", but destined to give to the papacy a position of independence towards both the Eastern and Western Empires, was the reduction in the autumn, with Norman aid, of Galeria, where the antipope had taken refuge, and the end of the subordination of the papacy to the Roman nobles.

With the permission of the absent chaplain Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the Code Napoléon and other books were burned ' in effigy ': instead of the costly volumes, scraps of parchment with the titles of conservative books ( including August von Kotzebue's History of the German Empires ) were placed on the bonfire.

After the war, with the goal of joining Moss Empires theatres, he spent years on stage with little success and travelled the UK working seven days a week, doing summer seasons, pantomimes and circuses, where he became renowned for his strong-man act.

Commenter Lucian Pye has argued that the modern " nation state " is fundamentally different from a traditional empire, and argues that dynamics of the current People's Republic of China ( PRC ) — a concentration of power at a central point of authority – share an essential similarity with the Ming and Qing Empires.