= Great Britain and the British Empire! = # British Empire - 36.67 million km2 (1922)[23] # Mongol Empire - 36.0 million km2 (1270 or 1309)[14][3] # Russian Empire - 22.8 million km2 (1895)[14][3] # Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - 22.3 million km2 (1945)[14] # Spanish Empire - 19.425 million km2 (ca. 1740-1790)[25] # Russian Federation - 17.1 million km2 (1991)[14] # Qing Empire, China - 14.7 million km2 (1790)[14][3] # Second French Colonial Empire - 12.3 million km2 (1938)[25] # Umayyad Caliphate - 11.1 million km2 (720 or 750)[14][3] # Yuan Empire, China - 11.0 million km2 (1310)[14
The largest empires in history include the British Empire and the Achaemenid Empire. The British Empire is considered the largest empire by amount of land, covering 12.82 million square miles. The Achaemenid Empire is considered the largest by population, during the time of the empire it held 44.48% of the entire population of the world, around 50 million people.
Back around 1600-1900, Britain was the biggest empire as they had control of countries such as India, Canada and Australia. You get the picture.
Although you can compare the Roman Empire to the British Empire.
The British Empire was the largest Empire in history it conquered a quarter of the world including Canada, New Zealand, Australia, India, quarter of the USA , Half of Africa, some of Antarctica, and other bits of the world. also a quarter of the worlds population where apart of the British Empire. the ruler of British Empire is the United Kingdom or Britain.
The question is basically meaningless and unanswerable unless you define more precisely what you mean by "greatest." Some candidates, though, would be the Roman, British, and Alexandrian empires.
The top 15 largest empires by land are:
The British Empire was the largest empire in history. The largest adjoining empire in history was The Mongolian Empire. The Mongolian Empire was made up of tribes from Turkey and Mongol.
When World War I broke out in 1914, the Russian Empire had the world's largest standing army, with approximately 1400000 soldiers on active duty
Persian, which at the time was ruled by Afghanistan and the king was Nadir Shah.
Tribes that originated in South Siberia and Mongolia, the Mongols created the largest empire in ancient history. Under Genghis Khan they conquered China in 1206
It's a toss up between the Mongols and Rome. The Mongols had the largest conquered terroritory in history, and Rome had the longest time running empire.
Ottoman Empire
Superion Empire Superion? The largest empire in the western world since the Roman empire was the British empire.
The British Empire was the largest empire in history.
The Aztecs had the world's largest empire in the 1400's.
The Achaemenid Empire.
i think the roman empire was the strongest empire but the largest to me was the british empire
It was king Ahasuerus, In the bible in the book of Esther, he had a kingdom from India to Ethiopia.
One of the worldβs largest most successful empire.
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Cyrus the Great.
The Republic of Turkey
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in 650 B.C.