"GREEK FIRE" The original Greek fire was an invention used as a weapon of the Eastern Roman Emperors. It is also said to have been invented by a Syrian engineer, one Callinicus, a refugee from Maalbek, in the seventh century. The Byzantines of Constantinople originally used ...

Justinian's Reign Emperor Justinian ruled from 527-565. He was born in an Illyrian village to a peasant family and joined the army at an early age. He quickly rose in rank, as his uncle Justin was the emperor at that time. He married an actress named Theodora and shortly before his uncle die...

There are always many factors that allow an empire to be great as there many factors for why one would be less sufficient. In this essay I will discuss two empires in all, the Roman and the Mauryan Empires. We will then discuss the social, political, and economic aspects that led these empires ...