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It wasn't larger, by land mass or by population.
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Yes it was. Take out league of nation mendates (which were suppose to be in trust only and be independent soon) and Britain at its very peak in size (when its actual supremacy was already gone with its profligacy in WWI) covered at most 25% of the world's land mass and ~20% of the world's population. At its peak, Mongol empire was 30% of the world's population and 25% of the world's population.

One in four human beings on the planet heiled Caesar. The largest fraction ever to sing god save the queen (ha) was?

I would love to see you show me where you found the information that 1 in 4 people on the planet hieled ceaser. The british empire had a much higher population than the Roman empire. And had more land mass, regardless of this statistic which may be true but I find hard to believe.

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At its peak, during the reign of Antonine emperors around 150 AD, Roman Empire had about 58 millionpeople. At the time, the whole world had about 190 million people (Atlas of World Population History, Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones, 1978, New York, ISBN 0-7139-1031-3.)

A full 30% of the world's population heiled Caesar, rather more than 1 in 4.

Sails, ploughs, paper, vs jet engine, penicillin and the world wide web.

Precisely, the very fundaments of human civilization upon which such fripperies as jet engine, penicillin and world wide web can be built.

You don't get points in civilization for being around a long time, you get points for the things I previously mentioned, countries taken over, wars won, technology, empire size and so on.

Live fast, think well of yourself, die young, forgotten by posterity.

Even so Britain still had more people in its empire than both the mongals and the roman empire by far, which is what actually counts. And it doesn't matter what inventions are built from other inventions either in this frame of reference. From what I've researched it was about the same size in land mass as the mongal empire but took over more continents. Wikipedia actually says britains land mass was larger but only by a fraction.