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The home and colonial areas of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed.
Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist) Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino ...
Empire Start year End year Duration (years) Achaemenid Empire: 550 BC: 330 BC: 220 Afsharid Iran: 1736: 1796: 60 Akkadian Empire: 2334 BC: 2154 BC: 180 Akwamu
Meet history’s wealthiest empires. ... the largest empire ever — and 412 million subjects or 23% of the world’s population. From spices in India to fur in Canada, the entire thing was ...
Category:History maps by country; ... List of largest empires; List of largest empires and polities on Indian subcontinent; A. Abbasid Caliphate; Achaemenid Empire;
The largest and most influential Hurrian nation was the kingdom of Mitanni. The population of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia to a large part consisted of Hurrians, and there is significant Hurrian influence in Hittite mythology. By the Early Iron Age, the Hurrians had been assimilated with other peoples, except perhaps in the kingdom of Urartu ...
Also the maps below, with an exception of a deleted outdated map in the “world history maps,” range from 2.5 to 5.5 in million km2 (relatively about the same sizes, and ranges from 135-215 or 175 BC, when it was at its greatest extent), which I have painstakingly managed to calculate, some have modern day borders drawn on them, so to ...
Name Capital(s) State type Existed Location Abbasid Caliphate: Baghdad: Empire: 750 – 1256 AD: Africa: North; Asia: West Fatimid Caliphate: Mahdia, Al-Mansuriya, Cairo