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The German Empire deemed them “predestined for the use of military needs,” and undertook the task of domesticating them.

Meanwhile, European empires began profiting off coffee-growing, establishing enslaved or exploited workforces in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

His Pulitzer Prize-winning "Empire Falls," while set in a main mill town, also draws on his roots.

The Roman Empire fell in 476 CE.

Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire introduced the stimulating substance to Europe.

In the east, the Roman Empire survived for a thousand years, becoming what you now call the Byzantine Empire.

it's not that the West Roman Empire collapsed, it is that the center of the Roman Empire shifted.

We are at the Empire Diner on 10th Avenue.

It fought wars with the Russian Empire that essentially determined its northern border.

-I would say Empire State BUILDING.

You know, the Roman Empire, maybe ancient Greece, maybe the societies before that, and now societies after that, the society we live in are very different.

541 is when it starts to break out in the empire, in Constantinople and other cities, and it spreads.

Iran fought a series of wars with the Ottoman Empire that determined its western border.

It's like, you know, some sort of, yeah, armpit of the Roman Empire or something, you know?

as the, as the East Roman Empire has.

So by the 10th century in the Macedonian era, the empire is back.

From the fifteenth century onward, European empires embarked on a so-called “civilizing” mission to convert the world to Christianity, bringing with it ideas about sexuality and gender with them.

In front of him, the vast Aztec empire.

So some historians claim that it killed half the population and ruined the empire.

GEOFF BENNETT: Richard Russo has written ten novels, won the Pulitzer Prize for "Empire Falls," and collaborated on screen adaptations and TV series based on his work.

Here's how a father and son duo turned their family meat business into a protein snack empire.

I always feel like I'm standing next to someone and I'm about to, like, take 'em up the Empire State Building.