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Viking Age trade routes stretched from modern Iceland, Britain, and Ireland in the West all the way to the Byzantine and Arab Empires in the East.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2024

Empires rise and empires fall and this could end.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2022

"The Commonwealth bears no resemblance to the Empires of the past," the Queen explained in her Christmas message in 1953.

From BBC • May 29, 2022

Not for nothing is Darren Lemming, the fictional center fielder of a team called the Empires, also at the center of “Take Me Out,” Richard Greenberg’s gay fantasia on the national pastime.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2022

The Aztec and Inca Empires were formed by 15th-century conquests, before Europeans arrived, but we know much about their formation from Indian oral histories transcribed by early Spanish settlers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond