The mausoleum of Galla Placidia, sister of Flavius Honorius, the very man who made Ravenna the capital of the Western Empire.

NEWYORKER: See the Other Side

When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the Fifth Century the effect on material culture and technology in Europe was devastating.

FORBES: What Are Examples of Things in the "Common Knowledge" about History That Historians Almost Universally Consider Incorrect?

Spain was for three centuries the centre of the western Islamic empire.

BBC: Muslim women seek positive image

They highlight the curriculum's omission of the contributions of troops from the British Empire on the Western Front and other campaigns of World Wars I and II, as well as a wider lack of acknowledgement of "the importance of Islamic civilisation to humanity's progress and history", for example to the Renaissance in Europe.

BBC: Draft history curriculum 'list-like and too narrow'

In the 9th century, the western part of Charlemagne's empire was called France and its inhabitants French.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The Mongols, while indeed being the fierce horsemen of legend, did, having established their empire which stretched from Northern China to Western Europe, then rule it as a free trade area.

FORBES: In Which We Gently Correct James Taylor

After the war, the British and French refused to give up their colonies without a fight, and the Soviet Union fueled a Cold War by attempting to restore, and build upon, the older czarist empire in eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.

NPR: 'Folly of Empire' Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism

Natalie Konstantinovna Mark was born in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a part of the tsarist empire that was close to the tastes of Western Europe.

ECONOMIST: Natalie Wraga

When in 1856 the sultan yielded to Western pressure and granted Christians some equality, there was a backlash from the Islamic establishment across the empire.

ECONOMIST: The Crimean war