Famous Empires by Description

I can never remember the one in India, and I'm ashamed to say I had no idea where Timbuktu is located. Maybe next time. Other than those, the rest were easy for me also.

seriously. I barely even have to use my brain. I mostly used my heart. are even learning these days? I doubt it

As Voltaire said, when its best days had already passed, it was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

'twas British though.

no it was British

Absolutely not. The Scots in particular were enthusiastic colonisers - the empire was very much a British endeavour, not an English one.

Mesopotamia is the geographic area around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. There have been several empires in that area since the Bronze age, including Persian, Babylonian, and Assyrian.

never

Agree with that. Besides Spain, the Britts and portugal, the French and Dutch Empires should be on the list as well. They were larger and of more worldwide influence than the Holy Roman Empire and Austria-Hungary(for example) ever were.

The title of the quiz is not "Every Famous Empire." and some of the more obscure empires you list are not really empires, though a few show up on my longest lasting empires quiz.

Athens and Sparta were city-states and the Mughal and Mali Empires were on here.

Zulu Empire ahaha

Germany called itself "Deutsches Reich" even under the Nazis. "Reich" means any large or powerful dominion, although it is most commonly translated as "empire". But even the English word empire does not necessarily refer to something ruled by a monarch, as we see in the Merriam-Webster definition: "a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority". Which applies to Nazi Germany, especially during WWII.

While they might be better known in the West at least partially because they came into direct conflict with the British, still, what are you talking about? The Mughal Empire lasted over 300 years. They ruled over almost all of India as well as a significant chunk of central Asia. At their capital of Agra they constructed easily the most famous landmark in all of India. Under their rule the population of India tripled, growing faster than during any other period up to that point, and they made many advances in other areas, as well. How is that less significant than what the Maratha Empire accomplished?

I mean, this list is nowhere near exhaustive...

Yea I missed 3 and only got 3 points, but it was fun nonetheless.

Which ones? If you want them to change, tell what's wrong with them. If you can prove it, sure.

They were completely different, and they fought each other all the time before Mali took over. Mali was much more well known so i'd say it should stay the same.

That’s an alternative spelling in English, I would say far less commonly used than Habsburg, which is also the original spelling in German. So no, Hapsburg is not ‘the correct spelling’, but it is an acceptable spelling.

though your implications here I think are an oversimplification, and there were some things novel about European colonialism, there's also a bit of truth in it... which I think is to blame on the fact(s) that the historically ignorant (almost all of us) don't know much beyond whatever happened most recently, and also that racists find it much easier to have a single shade of people to blame something on when looking for villains or scapegoats. These two things go hand in hand, too, since, it's impossible to believe in the concept of race if you are not historically ignorant.