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The Great Empires Of Asia: How Asia's Mighty Empires Challenged The World James Dasher Though Coates's research concentrates onAsian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave? This major book brings together a team of distinguished historians and 200 illustrations to survey seven great Asian empires that rose and fell between 800 CE and the mid 20th century. Each was unique, yet