The Roman Empire vs. The Mongol Empire At Their Peaks

[left-of-center2012]

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[packman]

1. Thanks for the site - A lot of interesting stuff there

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Interesting, but Rome never really met the Mongols. Their peak was a little over...

100 AD while the Mongols came by around 1100.

[left-of-center2012]

3. No one said they met

The map shows their size at their peaks

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Yes, and their peaks were a thousand years apart. Way less than another thousand years later...

the British Empire could have swallowed them both.

[left-of-center2012]

5. Whatever

None of that has anything to do with the map depicted.

[WheelWalker]

6. Time is relative...