Oh FFS, it says in the very first part of the article he was a madman. Are we supposed to listen to every single person in every mental ward across the country who claims to be JFK, Abe Lincoln or Napoleon?seems like someone missed the humor part of this story, point is that he was beloved, people found amusement in his claims and they protected him like he should have been a royalty.
Originally posted by liam k
there has only been one great empire, and it was called the british empire. quarter of the globe counts for something!
Originally posted by Draco69
Do you mean the Roman empire? They conquered quite a bit of the world.
Not to mention Alexander's Macedonian empire that was much larger than that of Rome or the British empire.
Originally posted by Draco69
Do you mean the Roman empire? They conquered quite a bit of the world.
no...no he doesn't...in land terms the British empire is the largest in history
http://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/map_of_the_british_empire_in_the_1920s.png
British ^
http://www.thejournal.org/studylibrary/maps/roman-empire.gif
Roman ^
Not to mention Alexander's Macedonian empire that was much larger than that of Rome or the British empire.
i dont believe the macedonian empire was as big as either...it only "sounded" big because it is referenced in terms of the known world at the time....which was not all that much
if you want figures the British was 36 million square kilometres...the Roman was 5.7 million...the Macedon empire was 5.4 million
the only one that comes close to the British was the Mongol empire under Gengis Kahn at 33 million
but it's unfair to compare empires from different times...if you do then the Macedon empire comes 18...if you compare it to other ancient empires then it comes 4th after the persian (under Darius), the Han (China) and the Roman (under Emporar Trajan)
