Greatest Empires in World History Tier List 

I dont get it

@@kakyoin4960 have you ever been to a school?

@@PowerCrafter123 yes wdym

@@kakyoin4960 Are you aware that sth called "World War II" happened?

@@PowerCrafter123 yes i am aware

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Yeah but still disliked it because Netherlands got higher.

@@Frahamen well they did kinda got Indonesia, they also once had some territory in America, they had South Africa, and just random trading posts everywhere.

I honestly think belgium should be higher than the us like you had the congo, and they some islands

@@einkoftespie8646 yeah, and the US started as a bigger country compared to Belgium

Yea- It is so... TRUE

Dude, he is american!

The ottoman empire was fighting weaker states, particularly the rump byzantine state, the mongols werent there during the ottomans and if we are talking about mongol descendants, timur wrecked bayezid the thunderbolt, as for umayyads, they ruled for a short time relative to the rest and were fighting exhausted empires, the persians particularly exhausted so much that they lost the whole empire.

@@Cecilia-ky3uw bro go learn history how many times all europe unite and crusade to Ottomans and they occupied nearly all arabian country in 1 year so sufm and go learn something before comment

in the case of the ottomans i guess he put them in that place because their decline was quite embarrassing and they probably could have avoided it if they had gone with the times.

Well it looks like someone really wanted to get their head cut off today xD

@@exodud5016 *VIV LA REVOLUTION* !!!!!!

@@exodud5016 yeah Tier list videos = comments on fire basically

@Magxcal_Visby Bano r/ihadastrokhvhhvf

@Magxcal_Visby Bano off to the guillotine!

How can't he see that Finland belonged to Russian empire and not ussr

And alaska

He’s damn right, the USSR was a Russian Empire clone after Stalin came to power

@@TheWolfboy180 cringe

@@azathot_369 Am I wrong tho

Classic Japan weather

DUDE.... I was just starting to understand just really who the "divine wind" was as Jin hac described it in "Ghost of Tsushima" but bro 🤣🤣

Also puts the British in S tier lol

@@sarthakraj3981 You should change your first name to ‘British’...

and the ottomans

@@togerboy5396 you should change your nationality to indian lol 😂😂😂

@@ObeseGorilla229 no, its just an irrelevant empire, sorry, but thats the true

._.

@@rdm3373 Tell that to the Eileat of Egypt under Mohamed Ali Pasha, the New Pharaonic kingdom, Ayyubids, Mamluks and and all Egyptian kingdoms and dynasties and they would want to know your location

So you can see we did have multiple empires

@@rdm3373 They will annihilate you if you do so :)

@@rdm3373 Uhm, I studied Egyptian history, they were definitely an empire. They spanned from modern day Sudan to even Syria or Iraq, although it’s hard to be certain.

Yap.

Their military was good enough to conquer half of the known world

@@Persiastan That was mostly Cyrus' military genius, and the fact that Egypt was in decline

Darius the Great won 2 war vs Greeks the Greeks got lucky he pass away

thank you

Well it’s less of a empire

The us likes just making it a state instead of a colony

So to get around to decolonization

Us eats empire biscuits not an empire tho

*sad mexican noises... I guess?*

You from Egypt?

Oof

Egypt deserve a b

Yeah,I agree.Pyramids,trading and all of that stuff.

Facts

Not colonies ! Overseas territorys. It was consider Portugal not just a mere colonie.

@@diogosantos2276 that was later.

Yes, swedish Empire is a joke.

”Swedish Empire” thats propaganda

@@axelouellet9635 there was no such thing as a viking empire

Sweden should have been in this list. At their greatest extent they had nearly all the territory around the baltic sea and even colonies in africa and america. I think you can call that an empire.

@@RamTheGre721 I 100% agree

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hello cisplatina do u guys miss us?

We were summoned

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The Qing is maximum A tier but I agree it was definitely underrated during this video. It's artistic culture had a huge impact on modern day art. However, it was an extremely unstable empire following the industrial revolution due to its refusal to modernise and industralize. Many rebellions broke out between the native groups such as the Taiping Rebellion, the Dungan Revolt, the White Lotus rebellion etc. The political climate of the country meant foreign powers could take advantage which had ultimately led to the empire's demise when the Xinhai revolution had struck. They were defeated numerous times and made fools of, having to cede Taiwan in the first sino-japanese war (treaty of Shimonoseki) and having to cede Hong Kong to the British following the first opium war (treaty of Nanking). It had been the richest nation in the world in both the 17th and the 18th century, which is what imo makes it deserving of a higher spot. However, its military prowess was insufficient for the period's omnipresent militaristic policies.

Laughs in Mongolian

Wonder how the Zulus are doing

I mean he´s not wrong

@Aman Lool if you believe that, then don’t google British military expansion

@@T0T4LG4MER5 I mean, that was kind of what happened in India...

Still very big

And also because of Cyrus the great

They lost because someone thought to use long sticks, that’s not top tier

@@jedichosenone4496 And the empire of that someone lasted 10 years in total lol

Just an American did this so shouldn't get it that serious i think

Yeah, probably

FAX.... criminal that he didn't put the greatest empire in history in SS tier. There's just so much in it. From the siege of Constantinople, by a 21 YEAR OLD, to defeating and BECOMING the world super power for nearly if not more than 2 centuries, and so much more...

@@husnuvesaire7972 nah fax 😆

From the Roman Empire with people like Scipio,Julius, and Agustus To Facist Italy with........Benito Mussolini Is the perfect example of fallen from glory and why viva la Vida plays

Italian empire started way before than fascist italy. Almost 60 years before.

@@furlan1743 woops

@@furlan1743 there was never such thing as an italian empire, maybe you were talking about the italian kingdom, that lasted until 1946 after a referendum held after the end of ww2

@@melianshadowcloak88 it cannot be under the Austro-Hungarian Empire

_Laughs in German_

Laughs in full blood Aryan

Laughs in argentine

Laughs in Freidrich von Gonzales Half German half Argentinian

Poland ran out

The Japanese had started building their empire from way before ww2 though, more like half a century. And it's impressive cause they defeated giants like Russia, China, the British, the French etc. Ultimately it was the US that defeated them.

@@adarshmohapatra5058 Japans plan was to first conquer China, then using the captured resources and manpower to expand out, however since they couldn’t get China to surrender their plan was bound to fail but they went on anyways and over extended themselves. Japan only got so far because of 1. Their choice to follow the west and modernize putting them decades ahead of their isolationist neighbors by using the tech that rapidly developed during Europe’s industrial revolution 2. China being at its lowest point in centuries because of the collapse of the Qing. At any other point in history japan would not have been able to accomplish this. On top of that they got cleaned up by the US

Japan's empire had great potential and its too bad it wasn't allowed to continue to conquer. I would have liked to see a China under Japanese rule.

@@silverletter4551 both the modern ccp and the Japanese empire were equally bad. Don’t be confused

Bro calm down this is a joke video XDXD

@KaNaK I assume so.

Yo chill

Well the qing dynasty is in the video

do you want an hour length video.

Yeah I was a little disappointed

yes true

How can u be fan of this horrendous empire when it killed our god

@@mrcool2107 nome me an empire who didn't commit murders/genocides

@@giulioballadore366 He's talking about christian sky daddy Jesus, he probably doesn't care about genocides

@@mrcool2107 I never killed anyone.......

Depends if you define conquering the world as landmass or population. Because you could then argue that modern day china is the biggest empire in history (no one else had over a billion apart from India right?)

I think Darren was talking about percentage of the population. Yea China is over 1 billion but it only accounts for 18% of total population. Persia basically ruled over the entire middle east which at the time was where the majority of the population of the world was located. That's super impressive and should be top 5 especially for how long it held it.

The same duration as the Spanish empire (1492-1975) and it was also larger.

britain lasted roughly 400 years.

@@Crimsrn You're right, it started in 1607 in Jamestown and it actually still has colonies, so it's already 416 years. Spanish from 1492 to 1975, a total of 483 years.

1:03 *snap back to reality*

Buongiorno dottori

@@inferno38-Emenimio

Not an Italian empire never was it was roman look at your history Italy and Rome didn't kiss and make up until until early 1900

British empire never to be matched

Oh no

Oh yes

@@kiboma4209 he means that its like SS get it cuz like the german SS

@@kiboma4209 it is most definitely king. I can already hear his high pitch scream.

SS means SchützStaffel or something like that

no way macedonian empire is better than persian empire or even byzantium since it lasted only for Alexander's lifetime and then it split into smaller greek kingdoms

By "no one" you mean Drew literally asking us to, i assume? xD

Nailed it 👏

Persian=iranian

@@brightburnedits4278 not really also other ethnic groups who live in central asia

@@OfficialDenzy all persian empire are iranians ...reasearch first... Iran also known as land of the Aryans migrated from Europe with our indo European language persian...and consists of Persians,Medians,Parthians they are all Iranian and related to aryan land ...Cyrus the great was the first to unite all Aryan/Iranians together and creat the persian empie ...and most importantly form the first persian empire to the last we always called our country Iranshar /Iranland...only greeks and romans called us persia and that's because they thought because the capitals and center of power was from persia the country was named the same which wasn't completely wrong but it was always the unification of all the people and we always called it Iran from persia to parthaia and media

This is his opinion :/

cry about it

@@pathet11cc goofy ahh empire, just like nazi germans, controlled it for a small amount of time and did nothing

Ottoman empire should be D. Zero development, Beaten by Eyalet of Egypt, sick man of europe. The Ottoman Empire could not boast of any technological achievements like the British Empire, or large territories like the Russian Empire, it did not even have colonies in remote parts of the world like Spain or France. Its influence on world culture and science is minimal and cannot be compared with such giants as the Roman Empire or the British Empire. You were beaten by Balkan peoples and nearly beaten by Greeks during the 2nd Greco-Turkish War.

@@user-bf7mo9cy8m wth i have never seen someone put this much effort in an angry reply

@@user-bf7mo9cy8m baahahhahahhahahhaha

@@user-bf7mo9cy8m yeah he is probably some random neckbeard crying with his key board

USRF Союз Социалистических Рисковых Республик Мне просто не нравится внешняя политика Турции в последнее время, много выебываются, сбили российский самолет, убили российского дипломата, с какого-то хуя пошли в сирию и в карабах, и все это на фоне их поднимающегося национализма, пусть не выебываются и знают свое место

@yeetus fetus Are you seriously ranking the shitty crumbling cesspool that was Peru-Bolivia above the Incan Empire? You're out of your mind.

@yeetus fetus You seem to be misunderstanding something and that something should be fixed as soon as possible... You are seriously ranking the Incans, one of the greatest civilisations in history below a country that fell apart immediately? Let me remind you that the Incans were the only successful purely communist state in history. They independently invented many of the things China and India did, and they were the only ancient civilisation who didn't originate from a river.

Well, technically you were included when he mentioned the Spanish Empire.

@@shaaravguha3760 The Inca also only existed for a few hundred years, had terrible domestic animals. They were founded in around the 12th century and became the biggest empire in the world with stone age technology, and only like 300 years~

Because they had no lasting effect culturally on a global scale

No he means that those coastal settlements that were Angola and Mozambique wasn't significantly expanded before after Brazilian independence in 1822.

Welll the Americans destroyed them ez

@@mohammedbasit7560 if you talking about American revolution they got help from France

@@jimilton WW2

Yeah, I was also kind of a weeaboo like Drew when I was younger but I came to realize the Japanese empire isn't underestimated, it's the opposite: Japan as an empire is overestimated objectively speaking. They had a big navy but overall they were lacking behind the West in term of industries and their military budget remained limited most of the time. Their peak gdp (just before WW2) was a bit below France (despite Japan having almost double the population on the mainland), I won't even compare with Britain and Germany. They were effective I won't deny it, and outstanding soldiers (able to obey any order). But in the end, a lot of their initial successes in WW2 had to do with fighting weak opponents. They were isolated as the only great power in the far east, it wasn't competitive like in Europe. I still adore Japan and their empire is super interesting in many aspects, but in terms of power and influence, let's be real, they are overrated. Probably because we all love their culture and products nowadays.

@@tc-up2yw help from the alliese

What does it mean

@Levi Russell oh I have now realized I knew it but at the moment I didn't recall I thought it was something serious 😅 not a joke thanks btw

@Levi Russell no I have the seen movie but I don't understood the joke at instance. I also want to read books but i don't have so much time nowadays

@Levi Russell ya you're write I'm also so interested in books

@@kirtan061 explain

Nah Poland-Lithuania sucks, Lithuania is the good part

TRUE

@@langskeppet9887 no

Me: satisfied Russian drunk noises.

it's fine, we had fun, but to many enemys

Wasn't Portugal the first global empire??? We started the global discoveries

@@luisviana7463 not really. Spain was the first one to have presence on the 5 continents

@@genovesator8454 did Spain have territory in India?

Asia in general

@@luisviana7463 Philippines

Britain's is not actually that small , I mean it's Japan sized

Yeah Mongolia is so much bigger then Britain, and then u take in account that Britain ruled a bigger land area, it shows his biased terribly

@@Le-eu4bf Uh no... Japan is twice as big.

Would it be rude of me to point that the aztecs literally started with no land.... they even built an artifical island in a lake and that was they're initial territory

Also the British Empire was incredibly influential and London was the biggest city in the world for a long period.

Yes, our first colonies where in Africa

Portugal also claimed all of Africa at one time but all the Other nations just ignored their claims

@@Kratos-uy1gd yeah i mean no one gonna let someone have an entire continent

@@lixobounce6588 **cough** Australia, North America almost

Depends on the point of view.

So true

It is, but with the name of the Spanish Empire. The most powerful king in history was the son of Carlos V, Felipe II, who to what you have mentioned also joined the Portuguese Empire, although he was no longer Holy Roman Emperor. He kept, yes, Low Countries, Franche-Comté, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia. He was also king consort of England, although they did not like him very much there.

Yeah and at least they went out in a way no other empire did.

Considering they are the only Chinese empire here I think they should have been a lot higher or replace them with the Tang empire

@Emily White what

where is the discord link?

@Emily White your comment doesnt make any sense

Wait, someone give the link to the server :v

save the great rome the most powerful nation in history

All the world knows Rome at 1 postion, the problem Is find the real n. 2

Sad to see that what italy is today

​@@mrcool2107Italy has two problems: corruption and depopulation for the rest it is the best nation in the world from many points of view

Most empire started from small country and when Ottoman started, Mongol was broken to smaller empire and real Mongol was in China far from Ottoman and byzantine already weakened by Arab and Crussader so Ottoman could take them out easily.

@@JoemamaGaming-md6je not Byzantines, they started from Rome and half of the Mediterranean

@@animationcity8178 Yeah I know but this guy right here didn't know that many empire was started from small country

@@JoemamaGaming-md6je Yeah you are right there

@@JoemamaGaming-md6je but many started with easy mode ottomasn started on hardcore mode

No

Damn that's some jerk

Emu empire is definitely SS tier. Imagine if they figured out a "boat" thing!

How could drew forget this. they deserve ss teir

Haha

*Nagasaki*

@@Ditubah what did nagasaki do?

@@lesen8367 It was the main hub of commerce between Japan and Europe, the portuguese were the first europeans to come into contact with Japan and were responsible for making Nagasaki what it is, having built churches and introduced a ton of stuff to the japanese, it used to be a small town with little importance. There are diaries of the first portuguese sailors that describe in detail the differences they found between culture, food, technology etc, it's an amazing read but unfortunately most of them have no translation.

Then these catholic priests converted too much, the japanese had enough and yeeted everyone not japanese out of the country save the dutch (who were protestant and didn't care to convert), which were the only ones allowed to trade (in a small port on the island Dejima) (at least concerning western countries) until the US came with gunboats.(1639 - 1854)

@@goncalomedeiros1589 Manhattan Project: *Allow me to introduce myself*

Wales sucks

@@A2pattingPod042 ummm... ok?

@@A2pattingPod042 WOW ! WOW ! How dare you !

@@feelingnether158 allow me to explain my self i simply dont like wales for the fact that there not many Jobs there as in England. However wale is the worse Place in britannia as they done nothing but Build Castle.

I dunno, Luxemburg World Union is pretty stronk

Ottoman empire collapsing amature My happiness Is crumbling more

it was the sick man of europe

Cookie monster of Europe

@@lgardner7176 why

They taught the Romans how to travel by ships.

@@kingbjorn1832 And use naval power EFFECTIVELY

The Carthage was mentioned at the start of the video.

@@PO.RO.MD.ORT15 Yeah...but I meant mainly as its own entity. That one is in connection with Rome..

tomas turbando

I think they had India and then they gave it as a gift to the british

@@republicapopulardachina8056 que piada horrível

@maher al hussaine you re welcome😅

Mostly the coastline of Mozambique and Angola they pushed in the interior later.

and them the Americans dint like Nagasaki

Actually, if we talk about 1580-1586 then it was not really Portugal, because in 1580 it was already part of the Iberian Union or Hispanic Monarchy under the House of Austria

@@Andres-sb6yd During the Iberian Union, Portugal was still a nation on its own. Limited autonomy, but still a distinct nation

best empire

@@oscargurdian9389 sarcsticly: IMAGINE OF THE US HAD A BIGGER EMPIRE THAN PRESENT DAY BRITAN HA HA THAT WOULD BE HILLARIOUS

Star Wars Empire of Lord Sidious

@@drip7110 imagine if it wasn’t actually an empire because it doesn’t have a monarch.

@@hillbilly3772 A nation doesn't need to be headed by a monarch to be an empire. Look at Republican Rome. Or the US.

You were very talented to draw the most beautiful, colourful, amazing and great country to ever exist.

@@nyankahana6447 I am glad to have contributed to society

It does actually

*drew* heh

If the typhoon didn’t come then history would be changed forever

Alexander's empire: the fastest

@@marcello7781 *Laughs in Napoléon*

@Aman Lool *laughs in winning almost every battle in 1v7*

@Aman Lool ah you lost the argument about Napoleon saw you use the WW2 card. How uneducated. Typical French hater

@Aman Lool l o l. Pls tell me where you come from so I can laugh

Ja kasier, ja

German Empire

Hail Kaiser Dir!

I believe the HRE can't be considered as an empire in the traditional sense, it was just a loose coalition of smaller states and duchies.

All time with the same territory

Ironically, Charlemagne (technically a king of France) founded the Holy Roman Empire and Napoleon (Emperor of France) caused it's fall.

no centralized government = trash tier

Is it really a empire? is it tho?

The one I see in D is the Belgian "empire"

The barbarians tackled Rome and tried to explain why invading the world is bad, but he killed himself before they could explain why invading the world is bad.

@@luftwaffebomber1340 nice 👌🏻

@@luftwaffebomber1340 bill wurtz