| So Hegel carefully distinguishes between the underlying principles of the Persian and the Roman empires. |
| The Eclogues came to signify Arcady as a place where poetry and love meet with or avoid the worlds of politics, cities, and empires. |
| Amid the ruin of the City of Dreams, Mehmed imbibed a valuable lesson about the twilight of nations, empires and kingdoms. |
| It focuses brilliantly on political intrigue and high stakes and assassins and crumbling empires. |
| Great empires, kingdoms and principalities have come and gone, but the Papacy endures. |
| Along it, empires, kingdoms, and colonial realms have been plunged into war and bloodshed. |
