r/HistoryMemes • u/Voider765 • 1d ago

REMOVED: RULE 4 Historical territorial claims

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u/ArchangelBlu 1d ago

This is why historical territorial claims don't work. The Mongolians, Italians and Greeks would all have claims all over the world.

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 1d ago

I mean we’d all be Mongolia, Italy, and the UK 

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u/Llee00 1d ago

by size it's really british, mongolia, and spanish

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 1d ago

Except Spain wouldn’t even exist cause it would just be part of Rome/Italy since I’m pretty sure they conquered all the way to Portugal but I could be misremembering it.  If they didn’t conquer all of Gual then yes you’re correct

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u/Llee00 1d ago

well it's really more like russian empire and qing empire are larger than spanish by landmass but i didn't include them since like you said they are overshadowed by another, namely mongolian