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This video shows the biggest and greatest empires in history.
An empire (Latin: imperium, meaning supreme authority) is a monarchical state headed by an emperor. Centralized multinational states, or colonies, are also called empires. There is currently only one state headed by an emperor - Japan (but Japan itself is not an empire).
The list of empires in the video is as follows:
British Empire
The Mongol Empire
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Spanish Empire
Qing Empire
The second French colonial empire
Umayyad Caliphate (second stage of development of the Arab Caliphate)
The Abbasid Caliphate (the last stage of the development of the Arab Caliphate)
Portuguese colonial empire
American colonial empire
Brazilian Empire
Empire of Japan (Greater East Asia Prosperity)
The Golden Horde
Turkish Khanate
Achaemenid Empire
Tang dynasty
Empire of Macedonia
Ottoman Empire
Roman Empire
The Timurid Empire
The Great Mongol Empire
Seljuks
Italian colonial empire
Kingdom of Kushan
The state of Khorezmshahs
Byzantine Empire
The Shaybanis
The Kazakh Khanate
Kyrgyz Khanate
The Samanids
The first French Empire
Inca Empire
New Assyrian Kingdom
Third Reich
Goguryeo
Ancient kingdom
(Ancient Egypt)
Carthage
The old kingdom of Babylon