Statistics for Significant Empires

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Maximal Extent	Time Period	Major City or Cities	Answer	% Correct
Almost all of Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa	286-1453	Rome	Roman Empire	96%
Canada, Falkland Islands, Egypt to South Africa along the Great Rift, India, Australia, New Zealand, Guyana, Iraq, Yemen, Oman etc.	1622-1945	London	British Empire	87%
Eastern Mediterranean and Northern coast of Africa	1299-1923	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)	Ottoman Empire	86%
From Belarus to Alaska including most of Eastern Europe and almost all of northern Asia	1721-1917	St. Petersburg and Moscow	Russian Empire	86%
Parts of Southern Mexico and Guatemala	1428-1521	Tenochtitlan	Aztec Empire	82%
Iran and the surrounding area	1736-1796	Mashhad	Afsharid Persian Empire	79%
From the Danube River to Korea including much of Asia and Eastern Europe	1206-1386	Karakorum, Avarga and Dadu	Mongol Empire	73%
Mesopotamia and the surrounding area.	626 BC-539 BC	Babylon	Neo-Babylonian Empire	73%
Western South America	1438-1533	Cusco	Incan Empire	66%
Germany, Northern Italy and surrounding area	962-1806	Aachen	Holy Roman Empire	63%
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Near East	934 BC-609 BC	Assur-934 BC, Nineveh - 612 BC	Neo-Assyrian Empire	57%
China and Mongolia	1644-1912	Beijing	Qing Dynasty	57%
India and Pakistan	1526-1857	Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Lahore, and Shahjahanabad	Mughal Empire	46%
Mesopotamia	2334 BC-2154 BC	Akkad	Akkadian Empire	35%
Middle East, Northern Africa and Spain.	661-750	Damascus	Umayyad Caliphate	32%
Based around the Niger River in West Africa	1340-1591	Gao	Songhai Empire	20%