itt: we discuss the greatest empire in history

nice retard map

>>1473001
Terrible border aesthetics for a map wank fantasy.

>>1473001
Iceland was part of the ottoman empire?!

>>1473045
Oops I mean a caliphate

>>1473001
This map has more liberal painting of unexplored or unadministrated areas than the usual British Empire maps.

>>1473047
They raided there, capturing locals to save as slaves.

>>1473001
why does the Ottoman have an adidas tracksuit?

>>1473050
If we painted a map with all the areas a country has exerted any kind of power the political maps of the UK and the US would cover basically the whole world.

>>1473001

Whole lot of empty desert you have there.

>>1473061
The British Empire maps already do that, and nobody bats an eye.

>>1473077
Your talking about India right?
Well yeah Britian never "Fully" controlled India , Only about half while the other half was to their Indian Allies

>>1473097
That, and Canada as well, and parts of Africa.
basically all of the non-urbanized, or at least somewhat densely settled areas.

>>1473105
>>1473097
I'd be very interested in seeing a map of "real control" for various empires and states.
I remember seeing one for modern Africa but I can't find it anymore.

>>1473125
Basically take a regular map of the British Empire, and consider that they only control a small area around their port cities.
You'd be more or less correct.
Do this in Africa (but account for the railway and the Nile cities), Australia, Canada, India, China.

There is also the debate about the trade companies, since technically that wasn't the English State having control over the land, it was a private company, basically a business with a private army or hiring the state army as mercenaries occupying land.
Those are technicalities and looking at history from a modern view point though, so I won't bitch and moan too much. I just don't like bug blogs in jungles, deserts and tundra, as if anyone even knew what was there to begin with.