The Mauryan Empire where the tradition was started by Chandrupta Maurya who used stones to mark the territory and make announcements.
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The Byzantine Empire did not recover from the fall of Constantinople to the Turks because the Turks were a strong local power which captured all of the remaining byzantine territory. Whereas the 4th Crusaders were few in number after they divided up the empire and they only captured part of the Byzantine Empire, the remainder of the Empire split into independent Byzantine powers, one of which the Empire of Nicaea eventually recaptured Constantinople and restored the Byzantine Empire.
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A cat does this to mark their territory or (if to a person) they are responding; telling you that your theirs.
It ended when Athens lost the Peloponnesian War and was stripped of its empire, and the empire's money which bankrolled the prosperity.
See the link for a picture of a stone bust of Marcus Anotnius (Mark antony)