He established the new, Flavian dynasty. Born to a Roman knight and ... he joked, mocking the Roman tendency to turn dead emperors into gods, "I think I'm becoming a god." Vespasian had brought ...

He was prepared to use any tool at his disposal to strengthen his claim to the imperial ... his dynasty, they had the leadership to get there. At his death, Augustus, the ‘son of a god ...

We will observe two public holidays in April – the Ching Ming Festival and Easter ... back more than 2,500 years to the Zhou dynasty. At the time, emperors would offer sacrifices to their ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing.