Biggest Empires

"unless the encyclopedia book which was right in front of my face at the time is lieing the you would be right. it didnt say what the square miles were in his empire but it did say it was 8,000 miles east to west and 2,000 miles north to south. to find square mileage you would multiply 8,000 by 2,000 and you get 16 million sq miles."

Thats a poor way of calculating, The japanese empire was 5000 miles east to west, and 7000 miles north to south, do you just multiply them?

How about these guys?

"How about these guys?"

They are already on my list, # 5

1) Mongol empire:  9.3 million sq mile

2) Tang empire: 4.8 million sq mile

3) Tujue empire: 4 million sq mile

4) Umayyad Caliph: 3.5 million sq mile

5) Xiongnu empire: 2.4 million sq mile

6) Roman empire: 2.4 million sq mile

7) Achmenid empire: 2.3 million sq mile

8) Macedonian Empire: 2.2 million sq mile

9) Xianbei empire: 1.9 million sq mile

10) Seljuk Empire: 1.8 million sq mile

The power of the Abbasids was almost as shortlived as that of the Macedonians. Succesive waves of slave revolts, Buyjids, Ghazinivds and Turks all conspired to make the Abbasid Caliphs fill a role rather like that of the modern pappacy. They were a religious authority but the political power had passed from their hands. Even before that most of the lands under the Caliph had a defacto independence. Emirs who had been appointed by the Caliph, their succesion became dynastics and so they ruled themselves, like the Samanid Empire for instance.

The Kushan empire in central Asia was large both in size and in influence.  During their time they were at the center of exchange of culture between the East and West. They were largly responsibe for Buddisms spread to China from India for example. At diffent times in history they fought against the Parthians, Sassanids, Xiong-nu, Bactrians, Indians, Hans, Sacas, Romans and the White Huns (Hephalites).