Uutuculum qusliuis.
1. other than the europeans what other countries are building empires? and where?

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire

because the earth is a round globe. but that is just what they tell us it is flat and those dudes actually where lying they sailed east.