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As much as it pains me to say it, I'm going with the Spartans. *Sniff*

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As much as it pains me to say it, I'm going with the Spartans. *Sniff*

THIS-IS.... *hardly, is able to hold meme*

Okay, I must'a say... The Mongols.

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The Mongols.

Wait I change my choice to mongols as well. (Can I still do that?)
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Wait I change my choice to mongols as well. (Can I still do that?)

Hehe, I guess it'sa okay for me. The Mongol Empire was the largest empire of antiquity.

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Hehe, I guess it'sa okay for me. The Mongol Empire was the largest empire of antiquity.

(That question was for ajc but thanks anyway.) Yeah they ruled half the world at their peek.
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The Mongols!

Hey Julius I think your signature is saluting that choice! (I know I am xD)
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Have to go with the Macedonians. Alexander the Great conquered the entire known world.

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Have to go with the Macedonians. Alexander the Great conquered the entire known world.

A lot of empires have conquered their "entire known world".

Also pre-gunpowder is a misleading term. The Chinese have had gunpowder since the 1000s or 1100s, putting them far ahead in the curve.

Anyway, if we're going off just PURE military power, then I'm tilting towards Mongols. They had amazingly efficient raiding styles, conquered pretty much the entire Asian continent, and prior to their attack, Baghdad was one of the culture centers of the world, and one of the largest cities around. After the Mongols, they lost one of the largest libraries of the time (information we will never get back), and the city was pretty much hammered into a low period that it STILL HAS NOT RECOVERED FROM. The Mongols effectively nuked Baghdad for the next 1000+ years.

Again though this is just military might and nothing else.

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A lot of empires have conquered their "entire known world".

Also pre-gunpowder is a misleading term. The Chinese have had gunpowder since the 1000s or 1100s, putting them far ahead in the curve.

Anyway, if we're going off just PURE military power, then I'm tilting towards Mongols. They had amazingly efficient raiding styles, conquered pretty much the entire Asian continent, and prior to their attack, Baghdad was one of the culture centers of the world, and one of the largest cities around. After the Mongols, they lost one of the largest libraries of the time (information we will never get back), and the city was pretty much hammered into a low period that it STILL HAS NOT RECOVERED FROM. The Mongols effectively nuked Baghdad for the next 1000+ years.

Again though this is just military might and nothing else.

VERY good.  Sadly, the Mongols were better conquerors and soldiers than they were leaders, that's partly why their empire fell. 

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VERY good.  Sadly, the Mongols were better conquerors and soldiers than they were leaders, that's partly why their empire fell.

If only Genghis Kahn didn't die, then their empire would have survived a lot longer.
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If only Genghis Kahn didn't die, then their empire would have survived a lot longer.

Pretty much every empire has this happen to it, a good leader comes along, dies, then all his minions fight for it.

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If this hasn't been said already, the Samurai!

Um... which Samurai? Japanese military history is very much divided into several eras and leaders of the eras with their own factions. Saying "samurai" is like saying "knights" or "immortals" or "cataphracts".

Also the samurai were actually pretty shitty on the glocal scale of things.

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After looking it up it turns out the Mongols were the 2nd biggest country ever after the British Empire, so techincally you could call it the biggest country ever to be forged without guns.

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After looking it up it turns out the Mongols were the 2nd biggest country ever after the British Empire, so techincally you could call it the biggest country ever to be forged without guns.

Are you sure about that? I mean the Mongols had basically all of Asia under their grasp back then.
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After looking it up it turns out the Mongols were the 2nd biggest country ever after the British Empire, so techincally you could call it the biggest country ever to be forged without guns.

But the Mongols, exactly, didn't use gunpowder. The British, on the oth'r hand, often archieved victor' over the'r enemi's due to the fact that they were the only on's with guns on the battlef'eld.

And many land wasn't even conquered by them. They were given as 'peace conditions' from other european nations.

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