The pre-Columbian empire spreading over many parts of western South America. It was controlled by the Incas, and had its capital as Cuzco.

(fashion) A style of women's clothing characterised by a fitted bodice that ended just below the bust

(history) Synonym of Empire of Japan

(historical) A Greek-Macedonian empire created by Seleucus out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great and ruled by the Seleucid dynasty (312–63 BCE).

(historical) An ancient empire of Western Asia founded as a kingdom by Arsaces I with his 3rd-century-BCE conquest of Parthia (only recently a satrapy of the Seleucid Empire) and subsequently greatly expanded by Mithridates I.

(historical) A Songhai state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Any of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms.

plural of gunpowder empire

The official nickname for the state of New York in the United States of America. / Empire State Building

(historical) The empire ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty 550 BCE to 330 BCE