Quotes About Empire

It was not the military prowess of the Germani that kept them outside the Empire, but their poverty.11

and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.

This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.

Now King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the land, even to its farthest shores.

Now it pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.