The largest empires in history
I continue to enjoy my evening class in International Relations led by our lecturer Dr Dale Mineshima-Lowe. Last week, we looked at India and Pakistan and this week we discussed Russia.
We were told that the old Russian empire was the third largest in history. But: which was the first and which was the second? You can probably guess the first: the British Empire. But the second? It was the Mongol Empire of the late 13th century.
You can see a full list of historic empires ranked by geographical size here.