Description
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Empire
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Had Istanbul as its capital
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Byzantine Empire | Latin Empire | Ottoman Empire
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Covered an area larger than 5 million square miles
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British Empire | Mongol Empire | Qing dynasty | Russian Empire | Spanish Empire
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Formed between 1870 and 1890
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German Empire | Italian Empire | Wassoulou Empire
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Controlled at least part of modern Peru
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Chimor | Inca Empire | Spanish Empire | Wari Empire
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Formed before 1000 BC
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Akkadian Empire | Assyria | Babylonia | Elamite Empire | Hittite Empire | Kerma Kingdom | Kingdom of Kush | Mitanni | Neo-Sumerian Empire | New Kingdom of Egypt | Shang dynasty | Zhou dynasty
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Was ruled by a caliph and/or a sultan
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Abbasid Caliphate | Ajuran Sultanate | Almohad Caliphate | Ayyubid dynasty | Bahmani Empire | Bengal Sultanate | Caliphate of Córdoba | Delhi Sultanate | Fatimid Caliphate | Ghaznavid dynasty | Kanem-Bornu Empire | Malwa Sultanate | Mamluk Sultanate | Ottoman Empire | Rashidun Caliphate | Seljuk Empire | Sokoto Caliphate | Sultanate of Rum | Timurid Empire | Umayyad Caliphate
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Had three or more capitals (or ruling cities) at the same time
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Achaemenid Empire | Aztec Empire | Chera dynasty | Chola dynasty | Francia | Kushan Empire | Parthian Empire
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Controlled at least part of modern Mongolia before the Mongol Empire (excluding Chinese dynasties)
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Liao dynasty | Rouran Khaganate | Turkic Khaganates | Uyghur Khaganate | Xianbei state | Xiongnu Empire
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Colonial empire that covered less than one million square miles
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Belgian Colonial Empire | Dutch Empire | Swedish Empire
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Was one of the four khanates that formed from the division of the Mongol Empire
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Chagatai Khanate | Golden Horde | Ilkhanate | Yuan dynasty
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Had rulers who were Greek or of Greek descent and existed before the Roman Empire
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Athenian Empire | Macedonian Empire | Pontic Empire | Ptolemaic Empire | Seleucid Empire
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Had its capital (or one of its capitals) in what is now Indonesia
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Johor Sultanate | Majapahit | Medang Kingdom | Singhasari | Srivijaya
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Existed for over 1000 years
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Assyria | Byzantine Empire | Chera dynasty | Chola dynasty | Elamite Empire | Kingdom of Kush | Pandya Empire | Republic of Venice
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Existed after 1800 and was based in the Americas
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Comancheria | Empire of Brazil | Empires of Haiti
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Was an African empire centred on the Sahel
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Ghana Empire | Hausaland | Kanem-Bornu Empire | Mali Empire | Sokoto Caliphate | Songhai Empire | Sosso Empire
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