| The Eclogues came to signify Arcady as a place where poetry and love meet with or avoid the worlds of politics, cities, and empires. |
| Great empires, kingdoms and principalities have come and gone, but the Papacy endures. |
| It is written in the wedge-shaped cuneiform script invented here and used throughout the Persian, Assyrian and Babylonian empires. |
| The modern consensus view is to judge the legacies of empire, especially of the modern European empires, very harshly. |
| It has been the land of mighty empires, a powerful trading nation rich in culture and civilisation. |
| One reason the old empires did crumble was the changing balance of forces in world imperialism. |
