Can you name the Ten Men Who Conquered the Most Square Miles? by ShepherdBook

Area Defeated	Person	Square Miles
China, southern Siberia, Mongolia, central Asia		4,860,000
Asia Minor, Egypt, Near East		2,180,000
Near East		2,145,000
Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Palestine, Indus Valley		2,090,000
Eastern Europe, western Russia		1,450,000
Continental Europe		1,370,000
Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Spain		720,000
India		680,000
Ecuador, Bolivia		480,000
Central, southern Mexico, Central America		315,000

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Ten Men Who Conquered the Most Land Quiz

by ShepherdBook

Created Oct 25, 2009 in History
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	Kaleb:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 17:06 GMT		3 points
	It might make the quiz too easy, but maybe a time frame for the conquerors?

	kretzloff:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 17:35 GMT		3 points
	Great quiz...some known, some more challenging was really good

	spqr:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 17:53 GMT		5 points
	Ghazni

	ShepherdBook:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 20:59 GMT		2 points
	Thanks for the comments. Kaleb - I originally designed the quiz with year(s) included, but, yes, I thought that made it too easy. Sporcle only allows me to include three columns, so I had to remove one...

	lmgsma:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 21:18 GMT		2 points
	It's Hernan Cortes, not Hernando.

	newenglander:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 22:35 GMT		2 points
	it can be either. hernan is more of a nickname

	Wales:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 02:38 GMT		2 points
	Can you accept some of the alternate spellings of Tamerlane? IE Timur the Lame

	JayHankEdLyon:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 15:46 GMT		2 points
	Dude, how did I get Cyrus and not Napoleon?

	Osprey39:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 07:55 GMT		6 points
	It's Mahmud of Ghazni, not Ghanzi. Also, he only conquered small parts of Northwest India. Most of the land he conquered covers modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, the other "stans," and Iran.

	RedLIon:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 19:36 GMT		1 point
	Just FYI : Napoleon also conquered a huge chunk of Italy and present-day Slovenia and Croatia.

	elevatorman:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 00:34 GMT		0 points
	I'm shocked Julius Caesar isn't on this list. I would think with Gaul, Pontus, Italy(conquering it from Pompey/Senate), and Egypt it would put him over Cortes, and Pizarro at least. Also what about Mehmed II he conquered Anatolia, Constantinople, parts of eastern europe to Belgrade, and parts of greece? Anyone agree, or disagree?

	gandalf:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 13:50 GMT		1 point
	I had Caesar number 3 on my list and was surprised as well that he doesn't even make the top ten.

	wolfeman:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 18:22 GMT		0 points
	Wonderful game. Forgot about Ghanzi. Love it.

	Geo_Crazy:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 22:55 GMT		0 points
	Thought that some of those western European leaders from France, UK, Portugal, and Spain would make it with the colonies. And perhaps the US president who oversaw the takeover of New Mexico and California from Mexico.

	aruss:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 02:29 GMT		1 point
	really cool quiz

	bk_babar:	Jan 1st, 2010 at 18:20 GMT		-2 points
	Genghis Khan is incorrect as an answer. It is a title meaning something along the lines of Imperial/Impervious Ruler. Temujin Khan would be a correct answer.

	redpolar:	Jan 13th, 2010 at 03:46 GMT		1 point
	very nice

	abanazerb:	Feb 25th, 2010 at 09:04 GMT		0 points
	Great quiz, but 'Tamburlaine' is how we spelled it at school.

	moominpaul:	Feb 25th, 2010 at 20:00 GMT		5 points
	yes - they personally conquered all this land on their own - not the mighty hordes under their command

	newenglander:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:55 GMT		5 points
	@bk_babar-thank you mr know it all, but 99% of people think of him as genghis khan

	Hermes76:	Feb 27th, 2010 at 22:35 GMT		2 points
	Hitler will be kicking himself he only got 6th

	nearlyextinct:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 23:35 GMT		2 points
	You should accept alternate names.

	calante:	Mar 5th, 2010 at 05:29 GMT		3 points
	Ditto on needing to accept alternate names (especially Timur for Tamerlane, since the former is the more accurate anyway). And please fix the typo in Mahmud Ghazni, too.

	RS89:	Mar 5th, 2010 at 17:49 GMT		1 point
	Surprised Charlemagne isn't on here.

	ShepherdBook:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 14:11 GMT		1 point
	Fixed "Ghazni" and added Timur as an alternate.

	Hooby:	May 9th, 2010 at 18:27 GMT		1 point
	kinda shocking how much land hitler actually captured...and idk if it counts, but maybe put north africa in for hitler too

	FelixtheBear:	May 10th, 2010 at 03:38 GMT		1 point
	You should also accept Chinggis Khan, that's the modern spelling. And Temujin would also be correct. I also have to ask, why is Peru not included for Pizarro?

	trivial:	May 10th, 2010 at 18:45 GMT		5 points
	I sort of expected to see James Polk. How many square miles were annexed during his presidency?

	quizbear:	Oct 12th, 2010 at 13:25 GMT		2 points
	how on Earth did Queen Victoria - the British Empire expanded enormously during her long reign - not make it?

	kennyb:	Oct 12th, 2010 at 16:23 GMT		3 points
	@elevatorman, it was Octavian Augustus Caesar that conquered Egypt, in 30 B.C.E. Remember Antony and Cleopatra?

	Austerlitz:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 03:31 GMT		3 points
	@trivial- That's an interesting question. From what I'm gathering, the Mexican Cession was about 500,000 square miles. If you want to include Texas it would be an even larger figure, but I don't think that the annexation of Texas could be considered "conquering".

	KansasJayhawk:	Oct 17th, 2010 at 01:39 GMT		1 point
	I enjoyed this quiz, and I agree that the Mexican Cession doesn't really qualify as "conquering" per se.

	AdamBishop:	Oct 20th, 2010 at 05:13 GMT		1 point
	It's possible that some of the people mentioned in the comments were just completely missed by the authors of The Book of Lists. That series of books is not known for its accuracy...(It's the Wikipedia of the 1970s!)