Maximum extent of the Umayyad Caliphate, the largest empire in

>to that point.
BTFO by Gengis.

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>>138147551

>>138147846
Umayyad surpassed them by far in percent of world population, mongol empire was mostly empty and it was never a contiguous polity beyond the death of genghis, so doesn't even count desu

>>138148110
>1000 years later

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lol u mayyad bro

>>138147551
Go back there then faggit

>>138148159
Mongol empire was still larger

>>138147551
You used to be part of the largest empire in the world (Brits). The Soviet Union was larger than that.

>>138147551
and it lasted a second

>>138148159
We're going by population now?
Ok, modern China.

>>138147551
at least it was better than muslims lands today

>>138148751
That's not true, fat ugly cunt.

>>138147551
An empire of sand

Arabs didn't conquer Anatolia. It was contested at best. The most the Arabs could muster was a few attempts at Constantinople that failed spectacularly. Their gains ended at the Aleppo area and consisted of yearly raids into Anatolia every spring. The Theme armies were literally devised solely to counter the raids.

Provence? Are you fucking serious? Septimania was not that large.

>>138148220
>up to that point the Spanish empire was the largest in the world

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>>138147551
Yeah I heard about them. They're the inspiration for ISIS.

They were hated by their subjects and a civil war overthrew them because they taxed everyone to the point of poverty.

Along with the other horrific points of political Islam, slavery of christians, etc.

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British empire was the largest that ever was or will ever be