For example, when the Achaemenid Empire was at its height, there were only 112.4 million people alive. The British ruled over a comparatively meager quarter of the world's population in 1901 ...

At the height of its power in 1921 the British Empire was known as the 'empire on which the sun never set' and was home to some 413 million people. However, Mrs Braverman said she was 'proud of ...

The British Empire at its height ruled over a quarter of the world's population. Besides economic exploitation, the colonisation involved human rights abuses and massacres that would be ...

At the height of the British Empire ... Subscribe today »] More than half a century after the British Empire entered its endgame, historians are nowhere near a full assessment of the carnage ...

The same poll also found 43 per cent believed the British Empire was a good thing, 19 per cent said it was bad and 25 per cent said it was "neither". At its height in 1922, the British empire ...

After losing the 13 colonies Britain did not want its empire to shrink again, and decided to make it even bigger. Ruling India was economically very beneficial for Britain, because the British ...

It's the elephant in the room that few people want to acknowledge happened. "The British Empire reached its height in about 1920. It was the largest empire the world has seen and encompassed some ...