All empires
Every empire, dynasty and state in the atlas — 163 in all, grouped by region. Tap any to read its history.
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West Asia (23)
- Elamite Kingdom
- Akkadian Empire
- Old Babylonian Empire
Hittite Empire- Mitanni
- Phoenician City-States
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Kingdom of Urartu- Median Empire
- Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) Empire
Achaemenid Empire
Seleucid Empire
Parthian Empire
Sassanid Empire- Rashidun Caliphate
Umayyad Caliphate
Abbasid Caliphate
Seljuk Empire
Mamluk Sultanate
Ilkhanate
Ottoman Empire
Safavid Empire
Qajar Iran
◀ 2700 BCEshared time axis1925 CE ▶
East Asia (19)
Xia Dynasty- Shang Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty- Qin Dynasty
Han Dynasty
Jin Dynasty
Sui Dynasty
Tang Dynasty
Liao Dynasty (Khitan Empire)
Song Dynasty- Jurchen Jin Dynasty
- Yuan Dynasty
Ming Dynasty
Tokugawa Shogunate
Qing Dynasty
Empire of Japan
Korean Empire
Republic of China- Manchukuo
◀ 2070 BCEshared time axis1949 CE ▶
South Asia (16)
Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization- Nanda Empire
Maurya Empire- Satavahana Dynasty
- Shunga Empire
- Indo-Greek Kingdom
Kushan Empire
Gupta Empire- Pala Empire
Chola Empire
Delhi Sultanate
Vijayanagara Empire
Mughal Empire
Maratha Empire
Durrani Empire
Sikh Empire
◀ 2600 BCEshared time axis1857 CE ▶
Southeast Asia (16)
- Pyu City-States
Kingdom of Funan
Champa
Dvaravati
Srivijaya
Khmer Empire
Pagan Kingdom (Bagan)
Sukhothai Kingdom- Majapahit
Kingdom of Ayutthaya- Lan Xang
Malacca Sultanate- Lê Dynasty (Đại Việt)
Aceh Sultanate- Toungoo Empire
- Mataram Sultanate
◀ 200 BCEshared time axis1903 CE ▶
Central Asia (18)
- Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (Oxus Civilization)
Scythians
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
Xiongnu Confederation- Hephthalite Empire
- Göktürk Khaganate
Tibetan Empire- Khazar Khaganate
- Uyghur Khaganate
Samanid Empire
Ghaznavid Empire
Mongol Empire
Chagatai Khanate
Golden Horde
Timurid Empire- Kazakh Khanate
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Dzungar Khanate
◀ 2250 BCEshared time axis1847 CE ▶
Africa (26)
Egyptian Old Kingdom
New Kingdom of Egypt
Kingdom of Kush
Carthaginian Empire
Ptolemaic Kingdom
Kingdom of Numidia
Kingdom of Aksum
Ghana Empire
Kanem-Bornu Empire
Fatimid Caliphate- Kilwa Sultanate
Almoravid Empire
Almohad Caliphate
Benin Empire
Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe
Mali Empire- Solomonic dynasty
Oyo Empire- Kingdom of Kongo
Songhai Empire
Ashanti Empire
Merina Kingdom (Madagascar)
Sokoto Caliphate
Egypt (Muhammad Ali Dynasty)
Zulu Kingdom- Mahdist State (Sudan)
◀ 2686 BCEshared time axis1974 CE ▶
Europe (27)
- Roman Kingdom
Roman Republic
Odrysian Kingdom
Macedonian Empire (Alexander)
Antigonid Macedonia
Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire
Caliphate of Córdoba
Carolingian Empire
Kievan Rus'
Holy Roman Empire
Portuguese Empire
Spanish Empire
French Colonial Empire (First)
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Dutch Empire
British Empire
Russian Empire
First French Empire (Napoleon)
Austrian Empire / Austria-Hungary
French Colonial Empire (Second)
German Empire
Italian Colonial Empire
Belgian Colonial Empire
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Nazi Germany (Third Reich)
◀ 753 BCEshared time axis1999 CE ▶
Americas (14)
- Zapotec State of Monte Albán
- Kan Kingdom (El Mirador)
Teotihuacan- Moche Culture
- Classic Maya Civilization
- Tiwanaku
- Wari Empire
Kingdom of Chimor (Chimú)
Toltec State (Tula)
Aztec Empire
Inca Empire
Comanche Empire (Comancheria)
Empire of Brazil
Second Mexican Empire
◀ 500 BCEshared time axis1889 CE ▶
Oceania (4)
◀ 900 CEshared time axis1893 CE ▶