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Largest empire in the world in 1200? That seems... implausible.
by PieterH 10y ago
Largest empire in the world in 1200? That seems... implausible.
- jboydyhacker 10y agoEurope was in a fairly decentralized state but still there were many chinese kingdoms quite a bit bigger. They must mean larger within some other context...perhaps temple area covered? Angor Watt is sprawling and flat. I could def see the surface areas of these complexes being the "mostest"
- technosmurf 10y agoThe agricultural systems around the big temple complexes suggest that over a million people lived in the area. http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2007/08/metropolis-angkor-worlds-first-mega.html http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2007/08/metropolis-angkor-world...
- tim333 10y agoLooking at Wikipedia it seems wrong. It had the Khmer Empire at 4m population 1.2m sq km, and the Song Dynasty in China at 118m population, 2+m sq km at roughly the same period. It does say however that Angkor was the largest pre-industrial city in the world, with an urban sprawl of at least 1,000 square kilometres.