Former Countries by Territory Map

Name these former countries and empires based on a map of the territory they held.

We also give you the approximate year represented in the map

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117 A.D.	500 B.C.


1989	1279


1800	850


1914	1870 (in blue)	1989


1500	323 B.C.	1989


1789	1200	814


1700	550 B.C.	1683

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80 Comments

+30

Level 80

Jun 29, 2018

Kudos... this ties together so many other quizzes into 1 place to learn so much...

+23

Level 76

Jun 29, 2018

Awesome quiz.

Level 73

Jun 29, 2018

Tough tough quiz

Level 83

Jun 29, 2018

Agree with the above comments, great job

+19

Level 73

Jun 29, 2018

Every time I see it, I'm reminded of how utterly drunk Prussia looks.

Level 76

Jun 30, 2018

Well, that was easy.

Level 78

Jun 30, 2018

Great one!

Level 46

Jun 30, 2018

Woot! 18/18 first try!

Level 77

Jul 1, 2018

Great quiz. Would love to see a sequel.

Level 81

Jul 1, 2018

Very easy, but nice quiz.

+35

Level 58

Jul 1, 2018

Can Carolingian Empire be accepted?

Level 75

Oct 25, 2018

Agree.

+10

Level 57

Oct 26, 2018

Indeed - the Frankish Empire has no meaning - Carolingian; Merovingian (but wrong date) or Empire of Charlemagne

Level 45

May 14, 2019

I was just about to say this and then I saw this comment, but it's still not fixed so imma just comment it again

Level 71

Jun 12, 2020

Agreed

Level 55

Apr 22, 2021

Agreed.

Level 65

Jan 6, 2025

Yup. That's definitely the Carolingian Empire according to the map and the date.

Level 90

Jul 1, 2018

Great learning quiz for schools.

+27

Level 90

Jul 1, 2018

Nice use of Prussian blue by the way.

Level 69

Aug 11, 2018

Yes I thought that was clever and a nice hint too!

Level 66

Jul 1, 2018

I thought this was a great quiz! 18/18 Second Try, the Venetian Republic was a bit tricky, never heard of it before. But I personally think the best learning comes from trial and error. Just curious, isn't the Carthaginian Empire as big as some of these countries (Out of curiosity, no correction intended)? Also, why do the Babylonian and the Assyrian Empires have a "Neo" with a hyphen before the name?

Level 72

Oct 25, 2018

There was another Babylonian empire before the second one. The first Babylonian empire was conquered by Assyrians.

Level 66

Jul 1, 2018

Googled "Venetian Republic" and I stupidly just realized the nationality tense: "From Venice."

Level 45

Jan 23, 2020

I actually wrote Venice and it worked ^^

I knew it was venice holdings but didn't really know how it was called at the time :s

+22

Level 54

Jul 1, 2018

Fun quiz; a few tweaks might be useful. IMO it should take "Soviet" for USSR; "Charlemagne" and "Carolingian" for Frankish (just as it accepts "Alexander" for Macedonian); and "Mogul" for Mughal. But on the other hand, right now it accepts "caliphate" for "Abassid caliphate," although there were four caliphates over a 1300-year period. (The Abassid was the second and the Ottoman was the fourth.) Since a caliphate is just a territory ruled by a caliph, that's maybe a bit broad -- kinda like saying "empire" or "kingdom" and having it auto-fill the right empire or kingdom :-)

Level 45

Jan 23, 2020

Well I always get confused with muslim caliphates so I just tried arab (hoping arabic empire or caliphate would get me somewhere, though I didn't expect too much) and it got me abbasid caliphate... I think it's a little too easy that way because as you mentioned there are multiple caliphates and I may have been able to remember abbasid, but it's far from certain...

Level 30

Jun 25, 2021

yeah I was quite surprised hey accepted "arabian" lol

Level 79

Jun 11, 2020

I thought that the Abbasid Caliphate was the third, after Rashidun and Umayyad?

Level 75

Jun 23, 2021

I couldn't think what the caliphate was so I didn't get it. Really annoyed that just 'caliphate' would've worked, and it definitely shouldn't. And as for accepting 'Arab' ... smh

Level 83

Jul 6, 2018

Great quiz. Maybe add Portuguese and British empires?

Level 69

Aug 27, 2018

Great quiz!

Level 58

Oct 25, 2018

Damn only missed babiloniya

Level 72

Oct 25, 2018

Moar!

Level 75

Oct 25, 2018

No British? No Klingon?

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Level 87

Oct 25, 2018

Unfortunately, the Klingon Empire will still be in existence hundreds of years from now, so it doesn't really fit in a "Former" quiz ;)

Level 43

Feb 25, 2025

😔

Level 87

Oct 25, 2018

Very enjoyable quiz. Pretty easy if you're like me and waste a lot of time looking at historical maps. I only got stuck for a bit trying to remember the right name for "the one that Charlemagne ruled."

Level 59

Sep 3, 2020

Not a waste of time.

Level 69

Oct 25, 2018

Great quiz! Make a second part

Level 67

Oct 25, 2018

Maybe accept the misspelled "Venician"? :-)

Level 67

Jun 26, 2021

And the misspelled Ottomon 😬

Level 81

Sep 4, 2021

Said with a Jamaican accent?

Level 60

Oct 26, 2018

I thank Paradox games for a few of my 5 points.

Level 47

Mar 4, 2019

Yeah Carolingian or Charlemagne is better than Frankish...

Level 89

Jul 2, 2019

Couldn't it be argued that the Frankish empire was also the HRE, as Charlemagne was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor?

Level 59

Aug 6, 2019

No, because it is wrong.

Level 84

Jun 23, 2021

Charlemagne wasn't crowned Holy Roman Emperor?

I kid, but the point stands there are better empires to use for the quiz to avoid conflation

Level 45

Jan 23, 2020

Well I suppose that from a muslim perspective France, the HRE and such were all called Frank kingdoms... But still the HRE is more like a state that emerged from the Frankish Empire rather than the frankish empire itself.

Level 32

May 12, 2020

Accept Venetia and Macedon, please?

Level 66

Oct 18, 2020

only writing caliphate gives you Abbasid, it's too easy since i got it by guessing ummayad caliphate. but ignoring that it's a fun quiz

Level 43

Dec 13, 2020

The map of Spanish empire isn't right, many territories where already indenpendent

Level 69

Jun 26, 2021

I was about to say this - or the date is wrong. At least the Netherlands had been independent for centuries by 1800! It is possible that the map shows every territory they ever had, and the date is simply when the empire reached its greatest extent, but that wasn't clear to me.

Level ∞

Jun 26, 2021

Fixed, thanks!

Level 60

Dec 20, 2020

First try, got everything except the Franks.

Level 81

Dec 28, 2020

Could you accept 'Mogul' for 'Mughal'?

Level 72

Jun 23, 2021

Thank you for this interesting quiz - it was fun, while both forcing me to remember my teenage history lessons and highlighted some gaps in my knowledge.

Level 67

Jun 23, 2021

very interesting, thank you.

Level 39

Jun 23, 2021

Could you accept Jugoslavia?

Level 71

Jun 23, 2021

Great quiz!!

Level 84

Jun 23, 2021

Looks like I'm the only one who thinks another minute should be added. :-(

Level 86

Jan 29, 2022

I needed more time too.

Level 53

Jun 23, 2021

Why was Carolingian empire not accepted?

Level 70

Jun 24, 2021

Great quiz, and thanks for accepting "caliphate" for abbasid otherwise I wouldn't have completed the quiz.

Level 65

Jun 26, 2021

Ugh. Typed Yugoslava instead of Yugoslavia

Level 81

Jun 27, 2021

Yugoslava is the hot mineral sludge that leaks from the front end of Serbian-produced 1980s compact cars after the timing belt fails and the engine overheats and explodes.

Level 83

Jul 13, 2021

Very good.

Level 46

Jun 30, 2021

Please accept URSS for soviet union

Level 64

Jul 24, 2021

Could accept "Habsburg empire", "Habsburg realms" or just "Habsburg" for Austria-Hungary, because it's referred to by that name quite often here in Europe, but a very good quiz!

Level 62

Jan 29, 2022

I made a version with a world map instead of a territory map.

Level 55

Apr 3, 2022

I always forget about the mughal empire

Level 33

Apr 8, 2022

F I mistook the Mughal empire with the Maurya empire...

Level 58

Aug 7, 2022

Mughals were technically Mongols because the word Mughal itself is an alternate spellings of the Mongols. When we trace the ancestry before babur, it traces to Timur, then the khans of Mongolia. But nevertheless the Mughals can be counted as another Dynasty as they were confined to India.. kind of like Indian mongol Empire

Level 50

Oct 25, 2023

Nice quizz, but I was suprised that the British Empire was absent. Remember than , in the BE, "the Sun never sets..."

Level 66

Oct 25, 2023

Never realized Roman and Holy Roman were different. Interesting

Level 63

Oct 25, 2023

I tried like 10 former Indian states I know but not the Mughal one

Level 47

Oct 25, 2023

I feel like Prussia in this quiz has more of modern-day Poland than of modern-day Germany.

Level 69

Oct 25, 2023

Please accept "Carolingian" for the Franks.

Level 65

Oct 26, 2023

Yeah...sourcing the image from that Wikipedia page but not accepting is it weird

Level 21

Oct 26, 2023

Amazing quiz!

Level 43

Oct 14, 2024

this was my last quiz for level 29. I got 1 point. So i am or was in the future PERFECTLY level 29. This quiz was awesome btw.

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