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October 3rd, 2011, 07:02 AM
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#11 | | Suspended indefinitely
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Originally Posted by Corto Maltese  To not include the Russian Empire seems a bit strange. | Russian Empire = USSR
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October 3rd, 2011, 07:03 AM
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#12 | | Historian ¤ Member of the Year ¤
Joined: Sep 2011 From: UK Posts: 14,612 | Quote:
Originally Posted by BogdaNz I vote for Third Reich
Some 57 % of world population was by november 1941 under Germany's rule | Since when? Tell us more because this sounds like a fabrication...
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Last edited by Brisieis; October 3rd, 2011 at 07:14 AM.
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October 3rd, 2011, 07:09 AM
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#13 | | Lecturer
Joined: Oct 2011 From: Norway Posts: 423 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Montage Russian Empire = USSR | No
the Russian Empire is Imperial Russia that is not the same as USSR
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October 3rd, 2011, 07:14 AM
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#14 | | Suspended indefinitely
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Originally Posted by Corto Maltese No
the Russian Empire is Imperial Russia that is not the same as USSR | Changing the order of the operands doesn't change the end result.
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October 3rd, 2011, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by bartieboy The British empire,
the largest the world has ever seen and I believe that at its height a third of the world's population was under British rule | More like one fourth (some 485,000,000 of 1,900,000,000 world total for 1922)
... unless you may be pretending to include the whole China   !!!
...still so, clearly one of the largest whole humankind proportions under the direct rule of any single empire all along History;
... together with China itself for the middle 1970s (some 900,000,000 for 4,000,000,000 world total).
Naturally, it was the Raj which made most of the bulk for the British Empire (some 300,000,000 by the 1920s).
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October 3rd, 2011, 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by sylla1 More like one fourth (some 485,000,000 of 1,900,000,000 world total for 1922)
... unless you may be pretending to include the whole China !!!
...still so, clearly one of the largest whole humankind proportions under the direct rule of any single empire all along History;
... together with China itself for the middle 1970s (some 900,000,000 for 4,000,000,000 world total).
Naturally, it was the Raj which made most of the bulk for the British Empire (some 300,000,000 by the 1920s). | That could very well be and I won't ask for sources to believe that ;-)
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October 3rd, 2011, 07:43 AM
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#17 | | Suspended indefinitely
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Originally Posted by bartieboy That could very well be and I won't ask for sources to believe that ;-) | Maybe you should ; to begin with Wikipedia (English version) has some excellent sources on all this stuff.
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October 3rd, 2011, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by sylla1 Maybe you should ; to begin with Wikipedia (English version) has some excellent sources on all this stuff. | I have sources on the subject as well bit I'm currently on my way home in the train
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October 3rd, 2011, 07:50 AM
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#19 | | Historian ¤ Member of the Year ¤
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Originally Posted by bartieboy I have sources on the subject as well bit I'm currently on my way home in the train | What a good way to pass the time on the train.  | | | |
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October 3rd, 2011, 09:09 AM
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#20 | | Bonapartist
Joined: Sep 2010 From: Somewhere in the former First French Empire Posts: 3,071 |
What is your definition of powerful? Length? Authority? Achievements? the odds it had to face? or something else?
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