In a city called Karakorrum, which at it's height probably held over 50,000 people. All that is left today though are some stone statues and an outline of where the city once stood.
The Mongols were generally tolerant toward diverse religious beliefs, as long as captured populations obeyed Mongol laws.
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The Attacks of the Huns under Attila and later Mongols.
under the mongols (khubalai khan in the yuan dynasty) it became known as khalanbliq
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Baghdad.
The Mongols maintained control of their empire by the use of force. It also kept its many peoples under their rule to practice their own religions.
Constantinople was the capital of the Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine the Great around 330 AD.
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Istanbul was the capital city of Ottoman Empire. Under the name Constantinople, it was the capital city for Roman and Byzantine Empire, beginning with Constantine the Great.When the empire became the nation of Turkey after World War I, the capital was relocated to Ankara (in Anatolia, or eastern Turkey).
The biggest Empire in the world was the British Empire, it was the biggest Empire the world has ever seen by far! It stretched right around the globe and a saying was born "the sun never sets on the British empire" because a part of the empire was always in daylight. Here is a map of the world, bits marked red was under British rule: http://northbritain.files.wordpress.com/2008/10british-empire-1920.jpg AS a matter of fact the mongolian empire was the biggest ever seen It was ruled by chinggis khan. And it was 4 times the roman empire at its peak. However, when chinggis khan died, the empire shrunk a lot. The empire is the size of Europe and china together!