Biggest Empires

no, not yet, durign M�ngke Qa'ans rule it was basically as large as it was after the fragmentation, or in other words: it was still the largest.

btw: post-gunpowder empires are ruled out.

"When the Mongolian Empire was at its largest it had already fallen apart in different states, therefore it's not one empire. The biggest Empire ever was the British Empire (in 1923). The British empire occupied 25% of world territory."

He said before the invention of the handgun, which does not include British.

"no, not yet, durign M�ngke Qa'ans rule it was basically as large as it was after the fragmentation, or in other words: it was still the largest."

With the exception it did not have Song China which had near 700,000 sq miles of territory.

In size order in approximation(including all effective subjects of the empire):

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

"On the other hand, if you add the amount of sea controlled by the Brits they kick more ass than the Mongols "

The sea isn't controlled by the British in the sense of a possession, or else the United States own most of the world and would kick both the British and the Mongol ass.

Also its quite pointless to judge by sheer size alone, we should judge the percentage of the territory dominated by the conquer in comparison to the rest of the POLITICALLY dominated world. Thus, Australia, Antarctica, Much of South America, western United States, Most of Canada, parts of Africa, parts of southern india, east indies, and large parts of present day east Russia are still either uninhabited or hunter gather society inhabited by savages or semi nomadic savages that does not have a state or political boundary in the 13th century, (these territory makes up over a quarter of the globe's surface) we should exclude these in calculating the total share of the world's territory. In this case, the mongols had over a quarter of the world's land. More than the British.