300 BC Alexander the Great of Macedonia/Greece. Around 30 BC Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire. During the 1300s Luxembourg, now shrunk back to a tiny state, ruled all the way to Prague! After the Luxembourgs died out, their descendants through Elizabeth Luxemburg were the Habsburgs, circa 1410 AD, who rose through the 1400s and 1500s to rule Austria and as far away as Spain and Brazil. They dissolved their empire in 1806 AD and there was a hiatus until around 1860 or 1870 when Prussia formed a "Second" Reich under the Hohenzollerns who thought they were "God's Bailioffs" and tried to conquer the world in World War ONE. Nazis were WWII and Jihad is NOW the danger. . . our CURRENT danger.
2014-08-17 08:26:18 UTC
Bit of a tricky question because when you look at ancient countries like Rome, Macedonia, Greece ect, the whole world to them was most of Europe + a bit of Asia. Most of the wars that have broken out in recent times have all been for smaller territory claims so for a true answer I think you can just look at ancient kingdoms and then big countries before WWI. Not really a definitive answer but if you combine it with others it might help lol.
poornakumar b
2014-08-17 10:52:36 UTC
In their own definition of The World - the Greeks/Macedonians under Alexander the Great; Spanish. Portuguese, Dutch. Danish, English, French & Italian but ended up in establishing their unique global Empires. All of them (except Alexander) fell in a heap by 1945 on.
Later Hitler tried & succeeded in conquering almost the Europe in his aim of World domination..
Later USA & USSR through their Ideologies tried world domination
2014-08-17 11:10:33 UTC
The British Empire
At its height, it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population at the time. The empire covered more than 33,700,000 km2 (13,012,000 sq mi), almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area.
Hi
2014-08-17 07:04:25 UTC
The Romans
France and Napoleon
The Huns
Tim D
2014-08-17 07:21:14 UTC
Britain, for world domination it is not necessary to actually occupy a country, sometimes all that is required is for a few gunboats to turn up at a major port for that nation to change its policy.
jack of all trades
2014-08-17 06:47:58 UTC
The Greek Empire, the Roman Empire and more. The question also arises, what was the known world to them at the time?
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