| Some of the matters involved in States wishing to retain controls go beyond the simple issues of ministerial empires. |
| Along it, empires, kingdoms, and colonial realms have been plunged into war and bloodshed. |
| The modern consensus view is to judge the legacies of empire, especially of the modern European empires, very harshly. |
| It focuses brilliantly on political intrigue and high stakes and assassins and crumbling empires. |
| It is written in the wedge-shaped cuneiform script invented here and used throughout the Persian, Assyrian and Babylonian empires. |
| Bosnia took on a special significance as the boundary region between the two empires. |
