Who was the greatest conqueror in history?

Discuss.

Napoleon was an overall great man. CruxisXIII

Napoleon was a short man, sir!

[QUOTE="CruxisXIII"]Napoleon was an overall great man. Sexy_Pirate

Napoleon was a short man, sir!

Genghis Khan, and it's not even debatable. He conquered the entire known world.famicommander

Genghis Khan, the dude almost ruled the wr0ldSimpJee

Basically all of the conquerers TC listed ruled most of the known world at one point or another.

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[QUOTE="CruxisXIII"]Napoleon was an overall great man. CruxisXIII

Napoleon was a short man, sir!

Explain this! This is a photo of Napoleon and a British man. Not only is he significantly smaller than the recoat, but he is attempting to eat a globe. Short and foolish.

Didn't Napoleon get his ass handed to him by Russia during the winter time or something?Vilot_Hero

[QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"]Didn't Napoleon get his ass handed to him by Russia during the winter time or something?CruxisXIII

[QUOTE="CruxisXIII"][QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"]Didn't Napoleon get his ass handed to him by Russia during the winter time or something?Vilot_Hero

[QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"][QUOTE="CruxisXIII"][QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"]Didn't Napoleon get his ass handed to him by Russia during the winter time or something?CruxisXIII

Proof?

Who didn't get wasted by the Russians? Everyone who has attacked Russia has been owned.CruxisXIII

[QUOTE="CruxisXIII"][QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"]Didn't Napoleon get his ass handed to him by Russia during the winter time or something?Vilot_Hero

I dunno. I havent researched Genghis kan....

BUT Alexander the Great ruled the KNOWN world. at that time a few city-states was really powerful. After he destroyed Darius, he merged the two great powers of the world, then expanded his power to India. He was great in his time. GK was great in his time. You need a real history buff to decipher who ruled a bigger empire relative to the world at the time. Also you need to take in to fact that Alexander did most of the battling with his troops. Not sure if GK did.

Cool, I was checking to see if you guys knew your history well, and so far 55% of you have passed.

Genghis Khan is obviously the correct answer.

George BushLokantis

If I went out of your choices I would have to say that "The Bush family" has made a good start.Dylan_11

Genghis khan

he ruled all of asia and half of europe

almost half of the world

Alexander the Great.

According to the History magazine, Alexander the great has achived more in the world history than any other man.

What people dont take into consideration here, is the timeframe they used, who fought the hardest battles ?, that would be Alexander the great, defeating armies 6 times his own force, on their choice of battleground, even on a wide open plane, giving no terrain advantages to him. It only took him 4-5 years to conquer the Persian empire, before his 25th birthday he had done this. So being so young puts him in a special category, he was 20 years old when he started the campaign, it makes you wonder how a 20 year old boy/man can do all this, when other great commanders are allways older and should have recieved more experience than him.

Im sure Genghis used way more time, he also had generals doing a lot of the conquering for him, if i remember right he had 3 or more armies under difrent generals heading in each their direction to conquer. he was more than twice the age of Alexander when he died, and the mongol empire grew a lot more after his death.

Alexander lead his own armie at all times, and fought in every single battle, starting out with only 35.000 men when he crossed into Persia.

Alexander is the father of strategy, Napoleon said: you can not understand military strategy without studying Alexander.

Genghis Khan was the most brutal all conquering bad-ass evil dude in history.

Also, I learned everything I know about Genghis Kahn from Age of Empires II

[QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"][QUOTE="CruxisXIII"][QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"]Didn't Napoleon get his ass handed to him by Russia during the winter time or something?CruxisXIII

Germany and Austria-Hungary defeated Russia in World War I on the Eastern Front.

But from all these commanders, Alexander is the only one that hasent been defeated in battle.

Hannibal, Napoleon, Caesar, Genghis Khan, Pyrrhus.... all have been defeated in battle.

Genghis Khan and his generals has conquered the biggest empire out of them, but he is not the greatest general, he did have the most effective weapon for it's time tho, wich made it possible to conquer so much, the tactics used were pretty simple, a bit covardly but very effective.

Well I think that Alexander was the greatest conqueror, he has been the only one who conquered many places, and was one of the few that didn't loose wars. For example I heard, when the news was talking about northern afganastain and pakastan, "this place hasen't been governed since alexander the great" and I have heared many other things like this, it is just after his death the largest empire the world had ever seen was split between lots of generals.Jacobistheman

I agree, for his short life and short amount of time it took him to conquer so much, puts him at the top in my opinion. And all these other big generals have learnt from him, he lived before their time, Genghis Khan lived around 1500 years after Alexanders time, and had Alexander lived to be the same age as Genghis Khan, 64-65 years old, meaning he would have lived 32-33 years more, then he could have conquered a lot more.

After conquering Persia, he got enormous amounth of wealth and manpower, and after conquering parts of india he got war-elphants. Imagine how big a empire he could have exstended if he had lived on for 33 more years, his son would also have comed to age without being killed, so the empire could have stayed as one under his son's rule, after Alexanders death.

[QUOTE="CruxisXIII"][QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"]Didn't Napoleon get his ass handed to him by Russia during the winter time or something?Vilot_Hero

The power of a military, or unit, or detatchment etc. is not measured by size. Just look at the SAS track record. In the 90's Isreal avoided conflict with Iraq because they were told SAS would be deployed in the area to deal with the problems.

[QUOTE="CruxisXIII"][QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"][QUOTE="CruxisXIII"][QUOTE="Vilot_Hero"]Didn't Napoleon get his ass handed to him by Russia during the winter time or something?jetpower3

Germany and Austria-Hungary defeated Russia in World War I on the Eastern Front.

personally i would have voted william wallace due to the fact that he fought for freedom and pride of the scottish people, but from the list would choose Genghis KhanDion2k7

I thought he was a fictional character, though...

Well either way, whatever they fought for, however noble the cause, it was lost in real life.

personally i would have voted william wallace due to the fact that he fought for freedom and pride of the scottish people, but from the list would choose Genghis KhanDion2k7