
They also were the first empire to rely on roads and implement methods of long-distance communication which was crucial in their ability to maintain control of their territory and while they had a hard to going further up in Europe that was because that was the extent of which communication could go at that time. The roman empire stood for a much longer period of time and someone above argued that it was because those around them were uncultured and didn’t have the tech that the Romans had, but the Romans started with what everyone else around them had as well because for one, they heavily “borrowed” from the Greeks, so it’s not like they were the only ones with the knowledge they just used it better and improved on it. their army was made 1000 years after the fall of the Roman empire is it any surprise their military would be stronger? Technology moves on (but don’t forget that the base of most of the tech used was from the Romans)īut in terms of their Status as an Empire and their mark on civilization Rome by far eclipses the Mongol empire. The debate is to some extent silly, in terms of pure military might if you squared up the entire Roman Empire at its peak to the Mongol empire, sure the Mongol empire would probably win because 1. The British Empire At Its Territorial Peak Covered Nearly The Same Area As The Moonįind this map interesting the please share with a friend:.

A View Of Roman Carthage, Built on the Site of the Previously Destroyed Punic Capital.Countries Which Have At Some Point Claimed To Be Rome’s Successor.Roman Empire GDP Per Capita Map Shows That Romans Were Poorer Than Any Country in 2015.An Incredibly Detailed Map of the Roman Empire At Its Height in 211AD.Here are some other maps of the two empires: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 of 6 (Everyman’s Library).Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.The Mongol Conquests: A Captivating Guide to the Invasions and Conquests Initiated by Genghis Khan That Created the Vast Mongol Empire.Roman Empire: 5.0 million km2 (1.93 million mi2), 3.71% of world land area in 117.Mongol Empire: 24 million km2 (9.27 million mi2), 17.81% of world land area in 1270 or 1309.The Mongols had the world’s largest contiguous land based Empire in history (and the second largest overall after the British), but just how much bigger was it than Rome?

The map above shows how big the Roman and Mongol Empires were at their respective peaks.
