The claim by certain rulers to Universal empire has a long History stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires.
This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order..
The claim by certain rulers to Universal empire has a long History stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires