History Quiz: Empires

Its official name today is Puducherry.

He was the son of the famous Sargon the Great. Ikunum and Babopolassar were Assyrian and Babylonian kings respectively.

By 720, the caliphate covered 4.3 million square miles. The Rashidun Caliphate covered 2.5 million square miles by 655 while the Ottoman Empire covered 2 million square miles by 1683.

The empire took Egypt away from the Nubians in 525 BC. King of Persia Cambyses II was crowned as Pharaoh of Egypt, founding the Twenty-seventh Dynasty. The empire controlled the nation until the Egyptians drove the Persians out in 404 BC. The empire under Artaxerxes III later took over Egypt a second time, in 343 BC, founding the Thirty-first Dynasty. The Persians lost control of Egypt in 332 BC when Alexander the Great conquered the nation. Another Persian empire, the Sasanian Empire, would later conquer Egypt, taking it from the Byzantines.

It grew to around 1.8 million square miles by the year 800. The Byzantine Empire covered around 1.1 million square miles in 555 while the Khmer Empire covered around 0.4 million square miles in 1290.

The Mughal–Maratha Wars began when the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb invaded the Maratha enclave of Bijapur. After Aurangzeb's death further into the Wars, the Marathas defeated the Mughals in Delhi and Bhopal, eventually gaining a decisive victory over the Mughals and as such ending the Wars.

He was the Sapa Inca from 1527 to 1532.

The nobility of the nation before the war had a lot of power at their disposal. This power, combined with the fact that the nation was surrounded by powerful neighbours, stopped the government from reforming the nation. In 1792, with the nation's neighbours engaged in various wars, a new constitution was read and adopted. The magnates of the country opposed the constitution, so they formed the Targowica Confederation, after which they asked Catherine the Great for help. She agreed to, for Russia had had a lot of influence in the Commonwealth, and as such this was the start the Polish-Russian War. The Russians, along with the Confederation, won the war.

The Empire of Brazil ended in 1889, while the German Empire ended in 1918. The Empire of Japan ended in 1947.

The empire's second capital, Kangaba, is now classed as a town.

By 669, the Tang dynasty had reached 4.15 million square miles. The Ming dynasty covered 2.5 million square miles by 1450 while the Song dynasty covered 1.2 million square miles by 980.

The Swedish Empire controlled an area that surrounded the Baltic, including modern Finland, Estonia, Latvia and parts of Russia, Norway and Germany. The Belgian colonial empire controlled the modern countries of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, while also controlling three minor possessions: the region of Santo Tomás in modern Guatemala, a section of Tianjin and Comacina, a small island of Lake Como.

Named Seleucia, it stood on the west bank of the Tigris opposite Ctesiphon, and was located within what is now the Baghdad Governorate.

Existing before the Mongol Empire, the khagans of the Khazar Khaganate were Turkic.

It may have been the first capital of the empire.