States are born and disappear; great powers swell, shrink, and vanish. In 1910, roughly 80 percent of the planet belonged to ...
The kings of the two largest cities, Calakmul and Tikal, clashed in a series of wars. These two superstates drew much of the rest of the Maya world into their long-running dispute. The ...
The totalitarian dystopia of George Orwell's 1984 is set in a world of perpetual conflict amongst three superstates, Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia. Newspeak and lies are used to rewrite history and ...