These campaigns expanded Han sovereignty into the Tarim Basin of Central Asia and helped establish the vast trade network known as the Silk Road, which reached as far as the Mediterranean world.

Peeps are used primarily to fill Easter baskets, though recent advertising campaigns market the candy as " Peeps-Always in Season ", as Peeps has since expanded to include Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day.

He expanded the kingdom of Venad, through a series of military campaigns, from Kanyakumari in the south to the borders of Kochi in the north during his 29 year rule.

His later campaigns greatly expanded the territory controlled by the Qing dynasty.

In the 1990s the ISO expanded and participated in a series of movements and campaigns, including the movement against the first Gulf War and other US military interventions, against racism, and for abortion rights.

The use of the term has expanded beyond campaigns to reform current trading practices, and major institutions such as the World Trade Organization which embody them.

In order to survive, W. Grant & Sons expanded their production of the drink, and introduced advertising campaigns, a visitors ' centre and from 1957 packaged their whisky in distinctive triangular bottles.

In the late 13th century Edward I expanded the familia regis to become a small standing army, forming the core of much larger armies up to 28, 700 strong, largely comprising foot soldiers, for campaigns in Scotland and France.

Thrones and Patriots expanded on a variety of features in the original game, such as new monuments ( called " Wonders "), nations, governments, and campaigns.

The raiding tactics were expanded into more complex operations by the Alexander the Great who used naval vessels for both troop transporting and logistics in his campaigns.

Launched in Cleveland in 2001, America Saves campaigns have expanded to over 52 communities, enrolled almost 216, 313 savers, and involved over 2, 000 organizations in supporting local, regional and state wide campaigns.

He has also expanded into graphic design, creating the logos and graphic designs for companies and political campaigns.

As Rome's frontiers expanded, in the 2nd century BC, the campaigns became lengthier.

Cutting the Fuse adds substantially to Pape's earlier work on terrorism, evaluating more than 2100 suicide attacks ( 6 times the number evaluated in Dying to Win ), developing a new social logic of transnational suicide terrorists, identifying the key factors that explain the ebb and flow within suicide terrorist campaigns, conducting detailed case studies of the 8 largest campaigns ( Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Chechnya, and Sri Lanka ), and offering expanded policy recommendations-particularly the political and economic empowerment of local groups as a key transition step toward off-shore balancing strategies.

As the Romans expanded their power in the region through a series of campaigns known as the Pannonian War or as the Pannonian wars ( Bellum Pannonicum, 12-9 BC ), fought against group of peoples known as the Pannonians, they enlarged the province of Illyricum.

She was the first Roman woman of the Roman Empire to have traveled with her husband to Roman military campaigns ; to support and live with the Roman Legions.

Agricola arrived c. 77 as governor of Roman Britain, immediately launching campaigns into Caledonia ( modern day Scotland ).

During his campaigns, El Cid often ordered that books by classic Roman and Greek authors on military themes be read aloud to him and his troops, for both entertainment and inspiration before battle.

The first extensive Roman campaigns in Britain were by the armies of Julius Caesar in 55 and in 54 BC, but the first significant campaign of conquest did not begin until AD 43, in the reign of the Emperor Claudius.

These campaigns re-established Roman control over the western Mediterranean, increasing the Empire's annual revenue by over a million solidi.

This was where two earlier Roman campaigns had concentrated and where the main Persian forces were soon directed.

In 138 BC, the Roman general Decimus Junius Brutus sought to dispose of the myth, as it impeded his military campaigns in the area.

As enlarged in the 6th century, each biography consists of: the birth name of the pope and that of his father, place of birth, profession before elevation, length of pontificate, historical notes of varying thoroughness, major theological pronouncements and decrees, administrative milestones ( including building campaigns, especially of Roman churches ), ordinations, date of death, place of burial, and the duration of the ensuing sede vacante.

Between 28-24 BC Augustus ' military campaigns pacified all Hispania under Roman rule, with the foundation of Roman cities like Asturica Augusta ( Astorga ) and Bracara Augusta ( Braga ) to the north, and to the south Emerita Augusta ( Mérida ) ( settled with the emeriti of the Legio V Alaudae and Legio X Gemina legions ).

After several unsuccessful campaigns against the pagan Semigallian duke Viestards and his Samogitian kinsfolk, the Roman Curia decided in 1251 to abolish the Bishopric of Semigallia, and divided its territories between the Bishopric of Rīga and the Order of Livonia.

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, on the other hand, can be best thought of as the philosophical reflections of an emperor divided between his philosophical aspirations and the duty he felt to defend the Roman Empire from its external enemies through his various military campaigns.

The Dacians were eventually defeated by Emperor Trajan in two campaigns stretching from 101 AD to 106 AD, and the core of their kingdom was turned into the province of Roman Dacia.

* The Roman campaigns in Mauretania begin.

* Regular Roman Army campaigns end in Mauritania.

Roman silver Denarius with the head of captive Gaul 48 BC, following the campaigns of Julius Caesar.

Records indicate that the Heruli served in the armies of the Roman emperors for a number of years, in particular in the campaigns of Belisarius, when much of the old Roman territory, including Italy, Syria, and North Africa was recaptured.

Militarily, at the time, Poland was unquestionably a considerable power as Bolesław I was able to fight successful campaigns against both Holy Roman Empire and the Kievan Rus.

His forced conversions or evictions carried out in the midst of the Thirty Years ' War, which with the later general success of the Protestants therefore had greatly negative consequences for Habsburg control of the Holy Roman Empire itself, while these campaigns within the Habsburg hereditary lands were largely successful in religiously purifying his demesnes, leaving the Austrian Emperors thereafter with much greater control within their hereditary power base — although Hungary was never successfully re-Catholicized — but one much reduced in population and economic might while less vigorous and weakened as a nation-state.

Despite numerous successful campaigns and raids by the Roman army over the Rhine in the years after the battle, the Romans were to make no more concerted attempts to conquer and permanently hold Germania beyond the river.

Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

Domitian toured the European provinces extensively, and spent at least three years of his reign in Germania and Illyricum, conducting military campaigns on the frontiers of the Empire.

The Marathas continued their military campaigns against Mughals, Nizam, Nawab of Bengal and Durrani Empire to further extend their boundaries.

With the expansion of the Mongol Empire, the Mongols settled over almost all Eurasia and carried on military campaigns from the Adriatic Sea to Java and from Japan to Palestine.

On land, the Empire was preoccupied by military campaigns in Austria and Persia, two widely separated theatres of war.

The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada, the British Empire and the United States to the islands of Great Britain and ( during World War II ) to the Soviet Union and the Allied Countries in the Mediterranean.

It has been used in many nonviolent resistance movements in India ( Gandhi's campaigns for independence from the British Empire ), in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and in East Germany to oust their communist governments, in South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement, in the Singing Revolution to bring independence to the Baltic countries from the Soviet Union, recently with the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia and the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, among other various movements worldwide.

His campaigns under Otto I and Otto II incorporated all three of the southern Lombard principalities-Benevento, Capua, and Salerno-into the Holy Roman Empire.

The son of Igor of Kiev and Olga, Sviatoslav is famous for his incessant campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two great powers of Eastern Europe — Khazaria and the First Bulgarian Empire ; he also conquered numerous East Slavic tribes, defeated the Alans and the Volga Bulgars, and at times was allied with the Pechenegs and Magyars.

It was used, just before the start of the Empire, by Julius Caesar during his conquest of Gaul and on both of his campaigns in subduing Britain.

On the other side, the isolationistic policies of Marcian left the Western Roman Empire without help against barbarian attacks, which materialized in the Italian campaigns of Attila and in the Vandal sack of Rome ( 455 ).

Following the campaigns of the Byzantine general Staurakios in 782-783, the Byzantine Empire recovered Thessaly ( then known as Hellas ), taking many Slavs as prisoners.

The Zouaves of the Imperial Guard served through the remainder of the Crimean War and subsequently in all the campaigns of the Second Empire.

* Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165 – 189 AD brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East

In the course of his twenty-five year reign, John made alliances with the Holy Roman Empire in the west, decisively defeated the Pechenegs, Hungarians and Serbs in the Balkans, and personally led numerous campaigns against the Turks in Asia Minor.

According to this view, John's campaigns benefited the Byzantine Empire because they protected the empire's heartland, which lacked reliable borders, while gradually extending its territory in Asia Minor.

Before that, in 780 and again in 782, he had already nominally led campaigns against the Caliphate's traditional enemy, the Byzantine Empire.

His reforms and military campaigns marked a renaissance of the Sassanian Empire, which spread philosophic beliefs as well as trade goods from the far east to the far west.

Henry campaigned against the Nicean Empire, expanding a small holding in Asia Minor ( at Pegai ) with campaigns in 1207 ( at Nicomedia ) and in 1211 – 1212 ( with the Battle of the Rhyndacus ), where he captured important Nicean possessions at Nymphaion.

Successive campaigns to recover the island failed until 961, when Nikephoros Phokas reconquered Crete for the Byzantine Empire and made it into a theme.