Also on display are ceramics, metalwork, manuscripts and jade carvings from the three “gunpowder empires”: the Safavid Empire in Iran (1501-1736), the Mughal Empire in India (1526-1857) and ...

After centuries of military, cultural and geopolitical conquests, is the sun finally about to set on the “Gunpowder Empire?” Or is there still one magic spell left under the mullahs’ turban?

During the sixteenth century, Songhai controlled a major portion of the interior parts of West Africa. Dominating the desert trade routes, the sprawling empire was prosperous and had a flourishing ...

On paper, it looked like a mismatch. Iran is not only one of the oldest and most established places in the Persian Gulf but also at least 75 times the size of Israel, with a population nine to ten ...

MØNA2507 – Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals Course description Course content Learning outcome Admission to the course Teaching Examination ...

At the beginning of this column, we saw how Gulf ports, especially Hormuz, had conducted their own business in the 1300s; by the 1600s, they had become chess pieces wielded by gunpowder empires.

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Brennan definitely had a point. Thanks to the CIA’s historic penchant for hiring and promoting people like John Brennan, ...