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Bringing to life ten great empires, each episode visiting the ten most significant sites that defined their achievements and legacy; “Empire Builders” visits 100 historic sites, discovering how they were built, for what purpose, and what they reveal about the empire’s rise and fall.
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British-American artist, Thomas Cole, was largely inspired by great British artists, Turner and Constable. And like many artists in the
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At its most powerful, the British Empire was the largest empire that the world had ever seen. Its influence stretched all over the globe; shaping it in all manner of ways that still has reverberating effects in modern times.
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The Roman Empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, political and military force in the world of its time and became one of the largest empires in world history.
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55 BC marked a dramatic change in the history of the island of Britain. The island was inhabited at the time by a collection of Celtic tribes, loosely connected culturally and ethnically but strongly independent of each other, perhaps joining together infrequently into small alliances but never as one nation.
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