Epic World History

Great Zimbabwe ruin As with much of southern Africa, the earliest inhabitants of what is now the country of Zimbabwe were the nomadic S...

Abahai (also named Hung Taiji) was the eighth son of Nurhaci , a Jurchen tribal chieftain who founded the Manchu state in what is today nor...

Shah Abbas the Great reigned from 1588 to 1629 during the zenith of Safavid glory and power. He effectively unified all of historic Persi...

Royal absolutism is a controversial concept among historians. There has been considerable debate about both the proper definition of the ...

Portuguese port in Africa The Portuguese were the first to make significant inroads into Africa during the age of discovery, yet they we...

Akan States of West Africa The Akan people of West Africa are descandants of the residents of the early Akan states and continue to li...

Jalal ud-din Akbar was born in 1542 to Humayun , in India, while the latter was a fugitive ruler. Akbar succeeded to a very shaky throne ...