French leader also hailed Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a "war hero", who was ironically being given moral and strategic lessons by ...

For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis of their ability or honesty, but simply because they were born in the right family. What’s more, the empire started through ...

The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ... and power,” French romantic writer Chateaubriand noted in 1803 on a visit to the emperor ...

a Roman emperor known for murdering his mother and wife and scapegoating Christians for a fire that devastated the empire, calling his administration “Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor ...

It was also very successful. As emperor, Trajan expanded the Roman Empire to become larger than ever before. He conquered Dacia (now part of Romania), which provided land for Roman settlers and ...