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Umayyad

Caliphate

• Famous Ruler:
  Abd al-Malik


• 62 million people


• 15,000,000 square
  kilometres


• Political Peak: 690

Russian EmpiRE

• Famous Ruler:
  Peter the Great


• 176 million people


• 22,800,000 square
  kilometres


• Political Peak: 1866

AchAemenid

empire (First

persiAn empire)

• Famous Ruler:
  Xerxes I


• 50 million people


• 8,500,000 square
  kilometres


• Political Peak:
  480BCE

Mongol EMpirE

• Famous Ruler:
  Genghis Khan


• 110 million people


• 33,000,000 square
  kilometres


• Political Peak: 1279

Ancient
egyptiAn empire

• Famous Ruler:
  Cleopatra


• 1–2 million people


• 1,000,000 square
  kilometres


• Political Peak:
  1250BCE

3100BCE–30BCE 550BCE–330CE 661–750 1206–1368 1721–

For more details on the respective territories controlled by

each empire, visit http://www.asiangeo.com/heritage/empires