What did the largest empires in history all have in common that

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Anonymous 2017-06-12 12:05:17 Post No. [Report]

What did the largest empires in history all have in common that allowed them to be as large as they were?

> British
> Mongol
> Russian
> Qing
> Spanish

Anonymous 2017-06-12 12:08:04 Post No.2940911
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Anonymous 2017-06-12 12:08:04 Post No.2940911 [Report]

>the British were good at war
>Mongols were brutal as fuck
>Russians were? If you mean soviets they got lucky from WW2 like America
>Qing, a literal who
>Spanish. disease

Anonymous 2017-06-12 12:28:20 Post No.2940950
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>>2940911
>>the British were good at war

Anonymous 2017-06-12 12:31:16 Post No.2940956
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>>2940902
skeletons

Anonymous 2017-06-12 12:34:30 Post No.2940966
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>>2940911
>Russians were? If you mean soviets they got lucky from WW2 like America

I think he literally means the Russian Empire, which was huge as fuck and colonized massive swathes of Eurasia between the reign of Peter I and its ultimate dissolution.

Anonymous 2017-06-12 05:42:02 Post No.2941893
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Anonymous 2017-06-12 05:42:02 Post No.2941893 [Report]

>>2940911
>Qing, a literal who

Anon, I...

Anonymous 2017-06-12 05:46:03 Post No.2941907
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>>2940950
retard

Anonymous 2017-06-12 05:51:23 Post No.2941921
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>>2940902
They we're all paranoid

Anonymous 2017-06-12 05:55:12 Post No.2941930
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Anonymous 2017-06-12 05:55:12 Post No.2941930 [Report]

Largely decentralized

Anonymous 2017-06-12 06:14:40 Post No.2941998
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Anonymous 2017-06-12 06:14:40 Post No.2941998 [Report]

>>2940902
Vast empty land up for grabs.

Anonymous 2017-06-12 07:30:33 Post No.2942183
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Anonymous 2017-06-12 07:30:33 Post No.2942183 [Report]

>>2941998
>india was empty.

Anonymous 2017-06-12 07:38:36 Post No.2942201
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Anonymous 2017-06-12 07:38:36 Post No.2942201 [Report]

>>2942183
Maybe he meant in terms of plumbing

Anonymous 2017-06-12 07:49:44 Post No.2942217
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>>2942201
oh, ok then.

Anonymous 2017-06-12 08:24:50 Post No.2942292
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>>2941907
t.Nigel Nigelson

Anonymous 2017-06-12 08:31:20 Post No.2942308
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Anonymous 2017-06-12 08:31:20 Post No.2942308 [Report]

>>2942183
>siberia and the steppes
>australia
>canada
>jungles of south america
A shitload of these places were sparsely populated and offered little resistance

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