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[Anomalocaris]

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.




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.

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



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. 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.

Well, the China has 3.5 times as many people now as all of British Empire, including India, ever did. China now is more populous than the height of british empire by a factor about the same as british empire was over Mongol empire. In fact, at its height, China also had a far larger proportion of the world's population (35% vs 20%) than Britian.

Mongols and the Romans also conquerored a greater fraction of the people that was there to be conquered than ever did the British.