Greatest Empires in World History Tier List

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[@PowerCrafter123]

Me, a german, seeing the top tier being called *SS* tier: *sweats profusely*

[@kakyoin4960]

I dont get it

[@PowerCrafter123]

@@kakyoin4960 have you ever been to a school?

[@kakyoin4960]

@@PowerCrafter123 yes wdym

[@PowerCrafter123]

@@kakyoin4960 Are you aware that sth called "World War II" happened?

[@kakyoin4960]

@@PowerCrafter123 yes i am aware

[@runecamps1031]

Me, a Belgian: I'm not mad the Belgian 'empire' is last, I'm happy we're recognised as an 'empire'

[@republicapopulardachina8056]

happy recognition noises

[@Frahamen]

Yeah but still disliked it because Netherlands got higher.

[@thatonefriendiii2827]

@@Frahamen well they did kinda got Indonesia, they also once had some territory in America, they had South Africa, and just random trading posts everywhere.

[@einkoftespie8646]

I honestly think belgium should be higher than the us like you had the congo, and they some islands

[@thatonefriendiii2827]

@@einkoftespie8646 yeah, and the US started as a bigger country compared to Belgium

[@the_six_paths3346]

How can the ummayad and ottoman be so low literally it took 150 years for ummayad to reach india and frances borders fought off the persians and byzantines. Ottomans started at a tribe then grew managed to last from middle ages to modern era and stopped mongols byzantines etc for me thats pretty impressive considering how many people were also against them

[@fatimahaque9226]

Yea- It is so... TRUE

[@sinnyawesome7037]

Dude, he is american!

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

The ottoman empire was fighting weaker states, particularly the rump byzantine state, the mongols werent there during the ottomans and if we are talking about mongol descendants, timur wrecked bayezid the thunderbolt, as for umayyads, they ruled for a short time relative to the rest and were fighting exhausted empires, the persians particularly exhausted so much that they lost the whole empire.

[@furkankahraman4426]

@@Cecilia-ky3uw bro go learn history how many times all europe unite and crusade to Ottomans and they occupied nearly all arabian country in 1 year so sufm and go learn something before comment

[@Mustis91]

in the case of the ottomans i guess he put them in that place because their decline was quite embarrassing and they probably could have avoided it if they had gone with the times.

[@worldsucks1908]

"I don't even know if America had a empire"- puts it on A tier "Egypt,one of the oldest empires . It needs to be pretty high"- puts it on D tier

[@articalp]

2:20 Drew:Explaining how he can’t put Belgium Empire that high because of if’s atrocities. Puts the Japanese Empire in S Tier

[@sarthakraj3981]

Also puts the British in S tier lol

[@togerboy5396]

@@sarthakraj3981 You should change your first name to ‘British’...

[@andreakopyan9714]

and the ottomans

[@chandramanisharma5268]

@@togerboy5396 you should change your nationality to indian lol 😂😂😂

[@aeiou6766]

@@ObeseGorilla229 no, its just an irrelevant empire, sorry, but thats the true

[@juninmatadordeporco]

"Russian Empire / Soviet Empire, i guess they're kinda the same" *What the blyat*

[@niume7468]

How can't he see that Finland belonged to Russian empire and not ussr

[@chuahseongteik4488]

And alaska

[@TheWolfboy180]

He’s damn right, the USSR was a Russian Empire clone after Stalin came to power

[@azathot_369]

@@TheWolfboy180 cringe

[@TheWolfboy180]

@@azathot_369 Am I wrong tho

[@GabrielPT752]

Fun fact: Portugal was the first european country/empire to have contact with japan

[@JontyLevine]

3:26 The best part is the Mongols actually did figure out the whole boat thing, went to Japan, ready for war, and *d i e d i n a t o r n a d o.* But they tried again, and had a nice time fighting with the Japanese, but then *d i e d i n a t o r n a d o.*

[@ABCD-nq3uf]

Classic Japan weather

[@feelingnether158]

Oh god the comment section is going to be the French Revolution...

[@exodud5016]

Well it looks like someone really wanted to get their head cut off today xD

[@ornellafrancis2466]

@@exodud5016 *VIV LA REVOLUTION* !!!!!!

[@feelingnether158]

@@exodud5016 yeah Tier list videos = comments on fire basically

[@ornellafrancis2466]

@Magxcal_Visby Bano r/ihadastrokhvhhvf

[@vrba243]

@Magxcal_Visby Bano off to the guillotine!

[@patrickmccarter6076]

Drew: "Egypt is one of the oldest empires, I have to put them up high." Also Drew: *Puts Egypt in C tier*

[@mayleavesoon]

._.

[@yousefshahin2654]

@@rdm3373 Tell that to the Eileat of Egypt under Mohamed Ali Pasha, the New Pharaonic kingdom, Ayyubids, Mamluks and and all Egyptian kingdoms and dynasties and they would want to know your location

[@yousefshahin2654]

So you can see we did have multiple empires

[@yousefshahin2654]

@@rdm3373 They will annihilate you if you do so :)

[@oracle372]

@@rdm3373 Uhm, I studied Egyptian history, they were definitely an empire. They spanned from modern day Sudan to even Syria or Iraq, although it’s hard to be certain.

[@JohnoftheWesternlands]

I am Greek but I think the Achemenid empire should go a lot higher. They hadn't the best military but they were very rich also they had very good organization

[@efthkon9142]

Yap.

[@Persiastan]

Their military was good enough to conquer half of the known world

[@jarogniewtheconqueror2804]

@@Persiastan That was mostly Cyrus' military genius, and the fact that Egypt was in decline

[@yaqubleis6311]

Darius the Great won 2 war vs Greeks the Greeks got lucky he pass away

[@shadowgod1797]

thank you

[@bruce_link4374]

5:40 just a little thing, Portugal didn’t get Angola and Mozambique after ww1, they were just regular colonies that portugal got in the age of discovery and there frontiers were established in the scramble for Africa

[@diogosantos2276]

Not colonies ! Overseas territorys. It was consider Portugal not just a mere colonie.

[@Andrew-px9fj]

@@diogosantos2276 that was later.

[@nickrossini3998]

Drew: Egypt deserves to be pretty high Also Drew: C

[@lgardner7176]

You from Egypt?

[@raf6029]

Oof

[@simontremblay4491]

Egypt deserve a b

[@GolemTheUkrainian]

Yeah,I agree.Pyramids,trading and all of that stuff.

[@jackplayzgaming4696]

Facts

[@badassgregory]

"Did the US even have an empire?" Cries in Filipino.

[@someangryinsanebelgian4618]

Well it’s less of a empire

[@someangryinsanebelgian4618]

The us likes just making it a state instead of a colony

[@someangryinsanebelgian4618]

So to get around to decolonization

[@MadScottishGuy]

Us eats empire biscuits not an empire tho

[@lesen8367]

*sad mexican noises... I guess?*

[@TheArabianKnight]

I think there should've been bigger empires, like the Ummayad and Rashidun Caliphate, the Seljuks, the Ayyubids, the USSR, the Western Roman Empire, Al Andalus, Mexican Empire. Also the Abbasid Caliphate should be at least a high A seeing on how long they lasted and how they ruled things also their victory percentage.

[@Tbarpadz]

Hello, i am portuguese, and the two colonies you said that portugal won ww1 were not won, they were the first portuguese colonies in afrika, their names are angola and moçambique

[@Wrolio]

Drew: I mean the Bri'ish Empire was the biggist ever Also drew: but like it's the bri'ish

[@jsdaking7659]

Laughs in Mongolian

[@bluesubaru7338]

Wonder how the Zulus are doing

[@tentriyami6861]

I mean he´s not wrong

[@T0T4LG4MER5]

@Aman Lool if you believe that, then don’t google British military expansion

[@WERTYUIO821]

@@T0T4LG4MER5 I mean, that was kind of what happened in India...

[@tonydai782]

Drew: *Puts Danish Empire and calls it Viking Empire* Swedish Empire: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@nielsjuel7769]

Yes, swedish Empire is a joke.

[@globglogabgalab5876]

”Swedish Empire” thats propaganda

[@melkerjohansson5100]

@@axelouellet9635 there was no such thing as a viking empire

[@RamTheGre721]

Sweden should have been in this list. At their greatest extent they had nearly all the territory around the baltic sea and even colonies in africa and america. I think you can call that an empire.

[@Maltheus_]

@@RamTheGre721 I 100% agree

[@fbi3165]

"If mongolia figured out that boat thing..." *Intense thinking and figures out the worst possibility* *Joseph voice* :OH MY GOOOD

[@swiss_nostalgia7691]

The dutch empire was nerfed hard since they had waaay more territory at their height

[@nikel4575]

When drew says the Portuguese went all in on the Brazilians Sad Uruguay noises I didn’t think this would get so many likes thank you guys

[@yurno1529]

Don't worry cisplatina, we love you

[@augustus218]

_Angry imperial Brazil noises_ *HEY CISPLATINA, YOU'RE COMING BACK TO BRAZIL*

[@leonardorivelorivelo9253]

hello cisplatina do u guys miss us?

[@BananaViral_Pooper_Viral]

We were summoned

[@BananaViral_Pooper_Viral]

Comment: “We like of u, Uruguay!” Nickname: Paulinho Gameplays

[@hughjames3647]

‘SS’ : laughs in Gestapo

[@augustus218]

_Laughs in German_

[@ddlcfan5539]

Laughs in full blood Aryan

[@blahh11]

Laughs in argentine

[@loran4169]

Laughs in Freidrich von Gonzales Half German half Argentinian

[@ktosktos5815]

Poland ran out

[@egg3931]

😂3:17 anyone else notice the picture for the mongol empire is completely wrong and he shows it completely different in the video right after

[@animationcity8178]

In land, Ottomans could be an A or a B tier. In terms of World innovations tho, definitely an S or even SS tier. Just think about it: They were one of the major reasons of the Colonization of America which led to Renaissance which led to the Reforms which led to the rise of the Europeans which led to the Industrial Revolution which led to WW1

[@husnuvesaire7972]

Just an American did this so shouldn't get it that serious i think

[@animationcity8178]

Yeah, probably

[@christianzeugna]

me, an italian: *sees roman empire in ss tier and fascist italy in c tier * also me: that couldn't be more perfect

[@user-tk9fm2sw5g]

From the Roman Empire with people like Scipio,Julius, and Agustus To Facist Italy with........Benito Mussolini Is the perfect example of fallen from glory and why viva la Vida plays

[@furlan1743]

Italian empire started way before than fascist italy. Almost 60 years before.

[@user-tk9fm2sw5g]

@@furlan1743 woops

[@christianzeugna]

@@furlan1743 there was never such thing as an italian empire, maybe you were talking about the italian kingdom, that lasted until 1946 after a referendum held after the end of ww2

[@TechnoGuys99]

@@melianshadowcloak88 it cannot be under the Austro-Hungarian Empire

[@pooryampj7322]

The reason I disagree is that although in size Persian empire is not one of the biggest but population wise they once ruled over 50.7% of the earth population They deserved a top tier

[@hkar4385]

Still very big

[@RoadToSociety]

And also because of Cyrus the great

[@jedichosenone4496]

They lost because someone thought to use long sticks, that’s not top tier

[@aryaa7069]

@@jedichosenone4496 And the empire of that someone lasted 10 years in total lol

[@ALPmations]

I think the Ottoman Empire should be in A tier because the Ottoman Empire was the empire that could control the Great Lands for the longest time (for example, Britain lasted only 200-250 years, the Ottoman Empire lasted 400-500 years).

[@angelcamachodelsolar]

The same duration as the Spanish empire (1492-1975) and it was also larger.

[@Crimsrn]

britain lasted roughly 400 years.

[@angelcamachodelsolar]

@@Crimsrn You're right, it started in 1607 in Jamestown and it actually still has colonies, so it's already 416 years. Spanish from 1492 to 1975, a total of 483 years.

[@jiaqiliu2052]

Me, a Chinese, feel Qing is a little bit underrated, though I don't think it is the best empire in Chinese history. But the Manchus started as a small group of people in Northeast Asia and they managed to take over Ming, a big state/empire, and sustain an imperial rule for almost 300 years. But like I said, I don't think it's the best example of Chinese empires. Qin Empire implemented a centralized bureaucratic system and some great infrastructures (what Chinese love for more than 2000 yrs), and Tang Empire had a really open-minded and cosmopolitan culture at its heyday. I am trying to be neutral, but I guess my nationality might affect my understanding about the Japanese Empire. It was not easy for Japan to expand, but Japan really failed to tamed the land it occupied and collapsed even faster than Qin Empire. I will rank it a tier beneath the British Empire for sure.

[@XenSolation.]

The Qing is maximum A tier but I agree it was definitely underrated during this video. It's artistic culture had a huge impact on modern day art. However, it was an extremely unstable empire following the industrial revolution due to its refusal to modernise and industralize. Many rebellions broke out between the native groups such as the Taiping Rebellion, the Dungan Revolt, the White Lotus rebellion etc. The political climate of the country meant foreign powers could take advantage which had ultimately led to the empire's demise when the Xinhai revolution had struck. They were defeated numerous times and made fools of, having to cede Taiwan in the first sino-japanese war (treaty of Shimonoseki) and having to cede Hong Kong to the British following the first opium war (treaty of Nanking). It had been the richest nation in the world in both the 17th and the 18th century, which is what imo makes it deserving of a higher spot. However, its military prowess was insufficient for the period's omnipresent militaristic policies.

[@LorianR]

As much as I love Japan and his culture, it’s hilarious that you put “Japan’s empire” over the Spanish empire, considering the first one didn’t last more than a few years whereas the Spanish one lasted for centuries, apart from been the first global empire ever in known history.

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

The Japanese had started building their empire from way before ww2 though, more like half a century. And it's impressive cause they defeated giants like Russia, China, the British, the French etc. Ultimately it was the US that defeated them.

[@MrVideomaker11111]

@@adarshmohapatra5058 Japans plan was to first conquer China, then using the captured resources and manpower to expand out, however since they couldn’t get China to surrender their plan was bound to fail but they went on anyways and over extended themselves. Japan only got so far because of 1. Their choice to follow the west and modernize putting them decades ahead of their isolationist neighbors by using the tech that rapidly developed during Europe’s industrial revolution 2. China being at its lowest point in centuries because of the collapse of the Qing. At any other point in history japan would not have been able to accomplish this. On top of that they got cleaned up by the US

[@silverletter4551]

Japan's empire had great potential and its too bad it wasn't allowed to continue to conquer. I would have liked to see a China under Japanese rule.

[@prisonmike1139]

@@silverletter4551 both the modern ccp and the Japanese empire were equally bad. Don’t be confused

[@plusxz821]

Bro calm down this is a joke video XDXD

[@gaborholotajr.4427]

What about the Mauryan Empire, The Qin Empire, The Han Empire, The Cin Empire, The Tan Empire, The Yung Empire, The Zen Empire, The Chou Empire, The Hettite Empire, The Ming Empire, The White Hunnic Empire, The Hunnic Empire, The Ayyubid Chaliphate, The Rasudin Caliphate, The Seljuk Empire, The Frankish Empire, The Median Empire, The Parthian Empire, The Arminian Empire, The Pontic Empire, The Seleucid Empire, The Western Roman Empire, The Swedish Empire, The Kalmar Union, The Empire of Nubia, The Empire of Kush, The Golden Horde, The Il Khanagate, The Timurid Empire, The Kingdom of Greco Baktria, The Republic of Carthage, The Khazar Empire, The Bulgarian Empire(s), The Soviet Union, The PRC, The RC, The Inca Empire, The Kingdom of Ethiopia, The Empire of greater Zimbabwe, The Khmer Empire, The Ptolemaid Empire, The Kingdom of Hungary, The Empire of Austria-Hungary, The Brazilian Empire, The Bolivian Empire, The Empire of Gran Columbia, The Mexican Empire, The Zulu Empire, The Fatamid Chaliphate, The Napoleonic Empire?

[@gaborholotajr.4427]

@KaNaK I assume so.

[@bionicles2005]

Yo chill

[@cosmicghxulgamerxd5401]

Well the qing dynasty is in the video

[@mirekikamila]

do you want an hour length video.

[@brick4522]

Yeah I was a little disappointed

[@mrshinybald2739]

Funny enough the Ottoman empire handed Australia their biggest military defeat at Gallipoli, Like Australia's vietnam

[@AlexandreeSantoss]

What he doesn’t know is that Portugal was the first European country to round the southern tip of Africa. Back then everyone thought there was a monster swallowing the ships. They also invented quite a few other things in other countries, brought spices to India, including Cinnamon and more. Portugal was quite important back then, they did the unthinkable in many ways, they did what others wouldn’t dare doing, and voyaged far and beyond with the ships back then. Also, the Portuguese created loads of better ways to sail the oceans, they were one of the greatest at sea!

[@zacharywindover9840]

*Rome has to go in top tier Me, a fan of Rome: you have chosen wisely.

[@wcthunder6940]

yes true

[@mrcool2107]

How can u be fan of this horrendous empire when it killed our god

[@giulioballadore366]

@@mrcool2107 nome me an empire who didn't commit murders/genocides

[@enotsnavdier6867]

@@giulioballadore366 He's talking about christian sky daddy Jesus, he probably doesn't care about genocides

[@mariodoccia1106]

@@mrcool2107 I never killed anyone.......

[@miladd237]

Achaemanid Empire(Persian Empire) deserved a lot more Reasons: It was the first Empire that was between three continents, Cyrus the Great was the first person writing the Human rights, their empire was larger than Alexander's and lasted a lot longer(about 250 years), They invented the first post system, They ruled not by fear but by respecting other cultures,languages and religions, There are a lot more but one of the most important: During the Persian Empire 44.4 precent of world's population lived under the rule of Persian Empire and this makes them the closest Empire to world domination in history. Thanks for your videos

[@nonsensevideos4375]

Nailed it 👏

[@brightburnedits4278]

Persian=iranian

[@OfficialDenzy]

@@brightburnedits4278 not really also other ethnic groups who live in central asia

[@rpd6874]

@@OfficialDenzy all persian empire are iranians ...reasearch first... Iran also known as land of the Aryans migrated from Europe with our indo European language persian...and consists of Persians,Medians,Parthians they are all Iranian and related to aryan land ...Cyrus the great was the first to unite all Aryan/Iranians together and creat the persian empie ...and most importantly form the first persian empire to the last we always called our country Iranshar /Iranland...only greeks and romans called us persia and that's because they thought because the capitals and center of power was from persia the country was named the same which wasn't completely wrong but it was always the unification of all the people and we always called it Iran from persia to parthaia and media

[@RigorousRhi]

This is his opinion :/

[@leigon.]

i actually like this ranking i do think though that both persian and macedonian empire should have been moved up to B tier or A tier considering how succesful they were

[@giannisv.4472]

no way macedonian empire is better than persian empire or even byzantium since it lasted only for Alexander's lifetime and then it split into smaller greek kingdoms

[@ferhatozturk3571]

in case of the ottomans dont forget they hold back the crusaders, fought against the mongols, ended the dynasties of the eastern roman empire and mamlukes, competed later with the russian empire in the north and with the portuguese empire on sea (especially for trade routes in the meditteranian sea and indian ocean) and still managed to exist for more than 600 years. I think if the ottomans would not exist, world history would look much different nowadays. So tier B is a little bit low but thats just my opinion..

[@darrenhagzid2015]

Fun fact: Achaemenid Persia were the closest empire to conquering the world with over 40% of the world population

[@purpledevilr7463]

Depends if you define conquering the world as landmass or population. Because you could then argue that modern day china is the biggest empire in history (no one else had over a billion apart from India right?)

[@joekong6105]

I think Darren was talking about percentage of the population. Yea China is over 1 billion but it only accounts for 18% of total population. Persia basically ruled over the entire middle east which at the time was where the majority of the population of the world was located. That's super impressive and should be top 5 especially for how long it held it.

[@zaidalsaqqar3997]

"the ottomans are underated" *proceeds to put them in b tier*

[@user-bf7mo9cy8m]

Ottoman empire should be D. Zero development, Beaten by Eyalet of Egypt, sick man of europe. The Ottoman Empire could not boast of any technological achievements like the British Empire, or large territories like the Russian Empire, it did not even have colonies in remote parts of the world like Spain or France. Its influence on world culture and science is minimal and cannot be compared with such giants as the Roman Empire or the British Empire. You were beaten by Balkan peoples and nearly beaten by Greeks during the 2nd Greco-Turkish War.

[@zaidalsaqqar3997]

@@user-bf7mo9cy8m wth i have never seen someone put this much effort in an angry reply

[@samhenderson1684]

@@user-bf7mo9cy8m baahahhahahhahahhaha

[@redstar3228]

@@user-bf7mo9cy8m yeah he is probably some random neckbeard crying with his key board

[@user-bf7mo9cy8m]

USRF Союз Социалистических Рисковых Республик Мне просто не нравится внешняя политика Турции в последнее время, много выебываются, сбили российский самолет, убили российского дипломата, с какого-то хуя пошли в сирию и в карабах, и все это на фоне их поднимающегося национализма, пусть не выебываются и знают свое место

[@_blank-_]

5:39 Pretty sure Angola and Mozambique were Portuguese colonies way before WW1. Drew is probably mixing up with Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania that were German colonies but were then given to France and the UK after the war.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

No he means that those coastal settlements that were Angola and Mozambique wasn't significantly expanded before after Brazilian independence in 1822.

[@abhijeetingle2707]

Also if you would plus the area of the Napoleonic and Royalist French empire with the Second Colonial Empire along with Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa, they would be as big as the British Empire.

[@rob_3764]

Me, an italian: *sees roman empire in ss rank* Also me: *likes and subscribe*

[@inferno38]

1:03 *snap back to reality*

[@ornitorincoman]

Buongiorno dottori

[@dansheffield4021]

@@inferno38-Emenimio

[@jamieforrester2857]

Not an Italian empire never was it was roman look at your history Italy and Rome didn't kiss and make up until until early 1900

[@jamieforrester2857]

British empire never to be matched

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

The NoNo WW2 German Empire is SS tier not because it’s decent but because of obvious reasons

[@barbonabianca]

Oh no

[@dadandadandan]

Oh yes

[@ziad9441]

@@kiboma4209 he means that its like SS get it cuz like the german SS

[@prexp9026]

@@kiboma4209 it is most definitely king. I can already hear his high pitch scream.

[@stevenmiller3934]

SS means SchützStaffel or something like that

[@legobestxx3574]

ik germany did bad things but they still united pretty much all of Europe done twice from what iik deserves ss

[@pacoramon9468]

The Mongols "cotrolled" a lot of land by conquering and was retaken shortly after just like Japan, they didn't influence those territories like Spain and Portugal did.

[@pathet11cc]

cry about it

[@peckishparrot1041]

@@pathet11cc goofy ahh empire, just like nazi germans, controlled it for a small amount of time and did nothing

[@legitplayin6977]

Drew: Puts Polish-Lithuania in B Me: *angry drunk noises*

[@langskeppet9887]

Nah Poland-Lithuania sucks, Lithuania is the good part

[@okolicznoscioweszoty]

TRUE

[@kroolkot_6762]

@@langskeppet9887 no

[@qui-gonjinn3322]

Me: satisfied Russian drunk noises.

[@Senasozys]

it's fine, we had fun, but to many enemys

[@blitzlightning985]

Drew: I take in to account how small the nation started British a small island who conquered 26% of the world abs rules the waves: Am I a joke to you

[@Le-eu4bf]

Britain's is not actually that small , I mean it's Japan sized

[@Waharli]

Yeah Mongolia is so much bigger then Britain, and then u take in account that Britain ruled a bigger land area, it shows his biased terribly

[@thomasgraham8035]

@@Le-eu4bf Uh no... Japan is twice as big.

[@lanzsibelius]

Would it be rude of me to point that the aztecs literally started with no land.... they even built an artifical island in a lake and that was they're initial territory

[@sntm87]

Also the British Empire was incredibly influential and London was the biggest city in the world for a long period.

[@cengiztastemir2552]

Ottomans deserves a A tier bc they survive long and they introduced their things to Europe that they still uses it.

[@You-ul8qw]

Before Philip the Second (Alexander the Greats father) there wasn't really much organization in armies at all.. just a mismatch of all your troops in a blob (a bit exaugurated but still, archers weren't separated from other infantry ect.) And that was only in Macedonia and took ages for everyone to fully modernize and organize their militaries. Due to this I would rate any empires before that much higher I think than what you put.. Babylon I would put in A, Eygpt in S because not only did they have that much land but were also one of if not the first 'country' ever, which is an extremely impressive feat if you consider before that the largest countries were simply a city or 2. Also Japanese empire didn't last very long and didn't have the greatest empire ever either... C maybe B teir. Overall though the teir list is pretty good. Maybe 7/10.

[@Alex-lf5sh]

Drew: *doesn't include the Inca Empire* *Angry Peruvian noises*

[@aguxd3851]

@yeetus fetus Are you seriously ranking the shitty crumbling cesspool that was Peru-Bolivia above the Incan Empire? You're out of your mind.

[@shaaravguha3760]

@yeetus fetus You seem to be misunderstanding something and that something should be fixed as soon as possible... You are seriously ranking the Incans, one of the greatest civilisations in history below a country that fell apart immediately? Let me remind you that the Incans were the only successful purely communist state in history. They independently invented many of the things China and India did, and they were the only ancient civilisation who didn't originate from a river.

[@condedooku9750]

Well, technically you were included when he mentioned the Spanish Empire.

[@enotsnavdier6867]

@@shaaravguha3760 The Inca also only existed for a few hundred years, had terrible domestic animals. They were founded in around the 12th century and became the biggest empire in the world with stone age technology, and only like 300 years~

[@arnewberry559]

Because they had no lasting effect culturally on a global scale

[@genovesator8454]

Spanish Empire on A. The first global empire in History, on A. The empire on which the sun never sets, on A. An empire so big it had a economic crisis due to the excess of gold and silver, on A. Drew really just woke up and chose violence

[@luisviana7463]

Wasn't Portugal the first global empire??? We started the global discoveries

[@genovesator8454]

@@luisviana7463 not really. Spain was the first one to have presence on the 5 continents

[@luisviana7463]

@@genovesator8454 did Spain have territory in India?

[@luisviana7463]

Asia in general

[@genovesator8454]

@@luisviana7463 Philippines

[@Claronomes]

You are right dude, i am Turkish and Ottoman's could have done so much more. They never colonized anywhere, they ruled over north africa for centuries but right now not a single person knows what ottoman empire is in north africa. They never colonized or tried to emphasize their own culture to other nations, they just ruled them.

[@kazakhdude]

“Considering their size of the Netherlands” Belgium, being smaller in size colonizing a lot also:

[@tcp1906]

Actually Portugal had those colonies before wwi

[@republicapopulardachina8056]

tomas turbando

[@spiritanimations9629]

I think they had India and then they gave it as a gift to the british

[@tcp1906]

@@republicapopulardachina8056 que piada horrível

[@tcp1906]

@maher al hussaine you re welcome😅

[@tonit4233]

Mostly the coastline of Mozambique and Angola they pushed in the interior later.

[@joseafonso7531]

No one: The comments section: Drew is wrong in every way imaginable.

[@TheInfamousHoreldo]

By "no one" you mean Drew literally asking us to, i assume? xD

[@paulpapagianopoulos5889]

Personally i think that macedonia should be a or s teir bc they started out as only a small portion of central nothern greece and made it all the way to india before alexander the great died a teir wiuld prob be best since it was kinda short lived

[@TheAmbientSoundGuy]

Was hoping to see Parmar Empire the one that Rival the OG Roman Empire, (The Empire only spanned over the Indian Subcontinent but the tributaries were as far as Mongolian and Saudi Arabia) OR Maybe the Samrat Ahsokha's Attempt at Reuniting the Aryavarta

[@arisenriccardo4899]

I like that nobody actually contest the ss tier of the Roman Empire -ROMA CAPUT MUNDI-

[@wilfredorosarioisidro8871]

save the great rome the most powerful nation in history

[@sickreds2227]

All the world knows Rome at 1 postion, the problem Is find the real n. 2

[@mrcool2107]

Sad to see that what italy is today

[@fabrizio.guidi64]

​@@mrcool2107Italy has two problems: corruption and depopulation for the rest it is the best nation in the world from many points of view

[@minimaxi6173]

More I think about it, it feels like Poland is a Mexico of Europe

[@arianam9977]

Depends on the point of view.

[@thiswillbenamedsomethingbetter]

8:17 should of given them A for effort for conquering all of Europe and being able to do some things with a large amount of population in 4 years

[@davidmarinheiro1056]

Portugal got an ultimato from the brits on the 19 centurie they wanted to conect angola and moçambique(the two colonies in africa) but the british wanted to build a train from Cairo(egypt If I am not wrong) to cairo(South Africa). And then had a revolution.

[@q11q40]

Japanese empire more powerful than the British? Jeez anime land really has done well for itself

[@mohammedbasit7560]

Welll the Americans destroyed them ez

[@jimilton]

@@mohammedbasit7560 if you talking about American revolution they got help from France

[@tc-up2yw]

@@jimilton WW2

[@xenotypos]

Yeah, I was also kind of a weeaboo like Drew when I was younger but I came to realize the Japanese empire isn't underestimated, it's the opposite: Japan as an empire is overestimated objectively speaking. They had a big navy but overall they were lacking behind the West in term of industries and their military budget remained limited most of the time. Their peak gdp (just before WW2) was a bit below France (despite Japan having almost double the population on the mainland), I won't even compare with Britain and Germany. They were effective I won't deny it, and outstanding soldiers (able to obey any order). But in the end, a lot of their initial successes in WW2 had to do with fighting weak opponents. They were isolated as the only great power in the far east, it wasn't competitive like in Europe. I still adore Japan and their empire is super interesting in many aspects, but in terms of power and influence, let's be real, they are overrated. Probably because we all love their culture and products nowadays.

[@jimilton]

@@tc-up2yw help from the alliese

[@nachok2884]

"The mughals, Harry Potter people" Drew Durnil 2021

[@kirtan061]

What does it mean

[@kirtan061]

@Levi Russell oh I have now realized I knew it but at the moment I didn't recall I thought it was something serious 😅 not a joke thanks btw

[@kirtan061]

@Levi Russell no I have the seen movie but I don't understood the joke at instance. I also want to read books but i don't have so much time nowadays

[@kirtan061]

@Levi Russell ya you're write I'm also so interested in books

[@muhammadaqilmanbajixmipa1679]

@@kirtan061 explain

[@tysharron4]

The most underrated and not on this list would be the habsburg empire while not uited it was all under one family and Charles the V had direct or indirect rule in large parts of south and north America, HRE, Spain, low countries, Philippians and even bites out of Africa.

[@bernardopascual5458]

It is, but with the name of the Spanish Empire. The most powerful king in history was the son of Carlos V, Felipe II, who to what you have mentioned also joined the Portuguese Empire, although he was no longer Holy Roman Emperor. He kept, yes, Low Countries, Franche-Comté, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia. He was also king consort of England, although they did not like him very much there.

[@hallj1171]

liked how drew called an 19 century danish empire for an norwegian viking empire

[@c0ntentOG]

Drew: I take in to account how small the nation started Portugal: Well, that was a lie

[@Andrew-px9fj]

So true

[@foxxo_exe966]

4:13 Actually, the portuguese were the first europeans in japan in 1543 and they did lots of trade with them, mostly guns. The portugues were the founders of Nagasaki and controled it for 6 years, 1580-1586.

[@srcaju5916]

and them the Americans dint like Nagasaki

[@Andres-sb6yd]

Actually, if we talk about 1580-1586 then it was not really Portugal, because in 1580 it was already part of the Iberian Union or Hispanic Monarchy under the House of Austria

[@dariooliveirapereira5395]

@@Andres-sb6yd During the Iberian Union, Portugal was still a nation on its own. Limited autonomy, but still a distinct nation

[@machikokyokyosan8104]

Iberian Union Aka Spanish Empire lasted for 333 years with 40 mKM^2 > the so called "British Empire" that lasted 120 years with 33mKm^2 (thanks to the Antarctic lands, how many people live there? is that a good market?)

[@DD-nb9rn]

Drew: greatest empires Also Drew: ranks this tiny empire from Africa but not literally bigger Empires in like South America and Asia

[@micayahritchie7158]

Drew raring the Qing low because they fell apart. Every other empire on this list: * slowly looks away *

[@drquantum583]

Yeah and at least they went out in a way no other empire did.

[@stevenbaksh5545]

Considering they are the only Chinese empire here I think they should have been a lot higher or replace them with the Tang empire

[@thecrookedguy2076]

Drew: i take in to account how small the nation started The ottomans: literally a Turkic tribe in Anatolia that were given land by the seljuks and they were dealing with mongols and byzantinzes at the same time

[@JoemamaGaming-md6je]

Most empire started from small country and when Ottoman started, Mongol was broken to smaller empire and real Mongol was in China far from Ottoman and byzantine already weakened by Arab and Crussader so Ottoman could take them out easily.

[@animationcity8178]

@@JoemamaGaming-md6je not Byzantines, they started from Rome and half of the Mediterranean

[@JoemamaGaming-md6je]

@@animationcity8178 Yeah I know but this guy right here didn't know that many empire was started from small country

[@animationcity8178]

@@JoemamaGaming-md6je Yeah you are right there

[@furkankorkmaz99]

@@JoemamaGaming-md6je but many started with easy mode ottomasn started on hardcore mode

[@denisc.p.2589]

But Mongols had boats, they had a huge navy and attacked Japanese with a first very small strike just to know if they were prepared, they killed more Japanese than monghol died, but unfortunately a tornado went and almost died. On the second attack, the Mongols were heavily armed with an army way bigger and would have won 100 % but tornado came again and said no, just this changed history so much1

[@Prororo]

If the typhoon didn’t come then history would be changed forever

[@radinnikeghbali2639]

Parthia quite literally started from a Seleucid satrapy and ended up as a massive empire witch was respected and not feared plus they quite literally stopped Rome from conquering the world

[@yungstallion2201]

Empire of Wales is obviously the biggest and best🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪

[@A2pattingPod042]

Wales sucks

[@nomadictanker8100]

@@A2pattingPod042 ummm... ok?

[@feelingnether158]

@@A2pattingPod042 WOW ! WOW ! How dare you !

[@NigelFarageForPM]

HA....sorry, just couldnt prevent myself from laughing

[@A2pattingPod042]

@@feelingnether158 allow me to explain my self i simply dont like wales for the fact that there not many Jobs there as in England. However wale is the worse Place in britannia as they done nothing but Build Castle.

[@FordyTheConeSmoker]

You left out the Emu Empire that controls most of Australia. Can only give you a 7/10 for this list for missing such an important empire in the world history

[@ascendedbro1828]

Emu empire is definitely SS tier. Imagine if they figured out a "boat" thing!

[@RishaanC]

How could drew forget this. they deserve ss teir

[@smartboi2607]

Haha

[@ggezwinmustbelike8544]

Empires was the best but some of em are so good that they have to be gone :( as a turkey im sad that ottoman is gone

[@user-qv4ol4ui6e]

Greek Empire is A tier is crazy. S tier at least, the people living in the Middle East were happy, learned Greek and even worshiped the gods. They even still have ruins and temples all the way to India and the Indus Valley

[@legendarygamer468]

You can already tell I love The Germam Empire

[@RichardNumbers]

Ja kasier, ja

[@PotatoBoy44]

German Empire

[@CoolEdo]

Hail Kaiser Dir!

[@manifesttruth7645]

The Holy Roman Empire was grossly underrated. It started in the year 800 with Emperor Charlemagne and fell in 1806 with Emperor Francis II. Hardly anyone knows that much about the Holy Roman Empire; but if you are an Empire that not that many people know much about but last for over 1000 years, then you are underrated to say the least. I think any empire lasting over 1000 years deserves to at least be above C tear.

[@majorvincsenzo731]

I believe the HRE can't be considered as an empire in the traditional sense, it was just a loose coalition of smaller states and duchies.

[@jaimete0589]

All time with the same territory

[@jerudo66]

Ironically, Charlemagne (technically a king of France) founded the Holy Roman Empire and Napoleon (Emperor of France) caused it's fall.

[@smoothjazz2143]

no centralized government = trash tier

[@welersoncarvalhodeavila4499]

Is it really a empire? is it tho?

[@tracyhanchett]

that viking map i used for a school project

[@virendrasourashtriya1236]

You forgot the Mauryan Empire, which told a lot more than the Mughal Empire

[@enderdrow8844]

Drew: yeah the Dutch were the only ones to trade with Japan for a long time. Portugal: Am I a joke to you?

[@Ditubah]

*Nagasaki*

[@lesen8367]

@@Ditubah what did nagasaki do?

[@goncalomedeiros1589]

@@lesen8367 It was the main hub of commerce between Japan and Europe, the portuguese were the first europeans to come into contact with Japan and were responsible for making Nagasaki what it is, having built churches and introduced a ton of stuff to the japanese, it used to be a small town with little importance. There are diaries of the first portuguese sailors that describe in detail the differences they found between culture, food, technology etc, it's an amazing read but unfortunately most of them have no translation.

[@DaRealKakarroto]

Then these catholic priests converted too much, the japanese had enough and yeeted everyone not japanese out of the country save the dutch (who were protestant and didn't care to convert), which were the only ones allowed to trade (in a small port on the island Dejima) (at least concerning western countries) until the US came with gunboats.(1639 - 1854)

[@WickedMapping]

@@goncalomedeiros1589 Manhattan Project: *Allow me to introduce myself*

[@WeltyHS]

5:38 Actually, Portugal already had colonies in Africa, dating back to 1415. They only started expanding their African territories after losing Brazil.

[@nunoreis001]

Yes, our first colonies where in Africa

[@Kratos-uy1gd]

Portugal also claimed all of Africa at one time but all the Other nations just ignored their claims

[@lixobounce6588]

@@Kratos-uy1gd yeah i mean no one gonna let someone have an entire continent

[@Sceptonic]

@@lixobounce6588 **cough** Australia, North America almost

[@buttayobread505]

The Portuguese didn’t “get” Angola, Mozambique, etc after WWI, they had been colonizing all of those countries since the early 1500’s.. Also, imo, Ottoman + Spanish empires should be in row S, Portuguese + Dutch in row A, and France in row B.

[@user-kw9uy6et7i]

1:39 russian empire and solviet union aren't the same cuz russian empire have poland and finland but soviet don't have finland but they had poland by germany

[@lukesucksatlife8973]

Everyone: Discord! Drew : Makes Discord Everyone: No discord

[@danylo6665]

@Emily White what

[@freestadiumtix]

where is the discord link?

[@danylo6665]

@Emily White your comment doesnt make any sense

[@shahranhussain6037]

Wait, someone give the link to the server :v

[@takenoLs]

Drew ‘the crumbing man of Europe’ Durnil

[@lgardner7176]

Ottoman empire collapsing amature My happiness Is crumbling more

[@parayaguerra]

it was the sick man of europe

[@eldahalas7015]

Cookie monster of Europe

[@eminmerttezcan6120]

@@lgardner7176 why

[@mayorhumdinger7229]

The Russian empire also lost to Finland because of the snow. Also in my opinion, I think the Mongol empire was best because if the British went against the mongol empire,British colonies were spread apart but not for the mongol empire so they would be able to attack before more troops arrive

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

What nonsense are you writing? The Russian empire never lost against Finland. Incidentally, the Soviet Union also won the war against Finland and conquered large territories.

[@wildeyshere_paulkersey853]

The most braindead comment i've seen in a while...

[@dasan3312]

Drew, I'm a nerd in Russian History and I can definitely tell you that the Soviets, even if the west says so, never deemed themselves as an empire. They hated the term of imperialism (even though ironically they practiced it in eastern europe). The Russian Empire was the one that really declared themselves imperialist, which is why they fell to the soviets. Oh and I believe Russia should be on SS tier because of how small they started and how rapidly they expanded. They were just the city of moscow when they started, and in just 300 years got to the size we know today.

[@casualfolk7066]

It doesn’t exactly count if they’re just occupying empty wasteland

[@diederikceuppens6763]

@@casualfolk7066 yeah and they defended that wasteland against napoleon in 1812

[@dasan3312]

@@casualfolk7066 one, its not empty, and two the only wasteland there is is in the arctic. Siberia is extremely useful, which is one reason why Russia became a superpower 4 times in a row in its history and is now one of the 5 great powers of the world. Siberia has useful minerals, oil, and good arable land especially in the southern parts for mass collective farming. Saying all of Russia is a wasteland is like saying 905 of america's territory is useless.

[@mixlllllll]

​​@@dasan3312"is now one of the 5 great powers of the world" Only on paper lol

[@potato8606]

Me when i see drew put poland-lithuania in B tier: **angry hussar noises**

[@Mario-hi5sq]

Think positive. In A tier PLC would be between Germany and Russia...

[@olitor2004]

@@Mario-hi5sq :o

[@olitor2004]

I Think its fair, i A tier it would be with USA and French and its greatest time, im not sure if we were that Good, but still

[@chuahseongteik4488]

Yea poland deserve to get their credit after getting remove from the map

[@Sam_Sabaka1]

Same

[@EE-dj7et]

I think you needed a different tier list for ancient empires considering they had much more limited options than modern empires like they couldnt colonize etc.

[@yamatohime2035]

I probably would place China into special "China" tier above SS tier. After all, out of all Empires, that one still alive and kicking despite seeing times before Macedonian Empire.

[@Doughboi_Snowboi]

The only things i would change is HRE in SS just the fact they were able to control the border gore is impressive. German empire SS maybe personal bias

[@bluesubaru7338]

Polish-Lithuania looks like a country I drew when I was 12

[@nyankahana6447]

You were very talented to draw the most beautiful, colourful, amazing and great country to ever exist.

[@bluesubaru7338]

@@nyankahana6447 I am glad to have contributed to society

[@ANONYM00SE]

It does actually

[@ANONYM00SE]

*drew* heh

[@cyruskabir16]

9:04 Which one is Greek, which one is Persian. Alexander: Dude?! Cyrus: Yeah, Whatever..

[@philbertisbest]

I went to the coliseum and the guide told me that the naval battles inside the coliseum was likely a myth

[@shrek5541]

The dutch also had zew zealand tasmania and australia and some of india but that wasn't portrayed on that map sadly

[@jasonmaragkakis1181]

Drew: this empire has got to go pretty high Also drew:''puts them on D"

[@TheNewFanny]

The one I see in D is the Belgian "empire"

[@nathanielsealy2243]

My day be so fine, then boom: British Empire in S tier instead of SS tier

[@yeetjones927]

Yeah and he puts the american empire in A tier even though its just modern day america with a fwlew more islands

[@Smileyreal]

Yeah, they belonged in D tier, bri'ish "people" don't belong in S tier.

[@marxistvalor]

Building an Empire by mostly slaughtering Natives can't be that hard.

[@williamcarruthers8334]

Salty American

[@killerdemonsniped7409]

Honestly I thought the British were good at A

[@yj9032]

3:39 several countries stop the Mongolia like India, Indonesia, Egypt etc. They successfully pushed back Mongols.

[@AphaGoodies]

I’m British yes but honestly SS for Britain because it was really fast increase of land and a massive empire and it was from a small island also it didn’t have a big army it saved most places in ww2 well most of the work in the ww1 and 2 it also defeated most of the recent wars like 1550+