"Look at the British Colonial empire — the most magnificent empire that the world ever saw. The old Spanish boast that the sun never set in their dominions, has been more truly realised amongst ourselves." - Sir Henry Ward, 1839

"The sun never sets on the British Empire."

At one point, this shit was true. Britain had colonies everywhere and was RICH AS HELL. They started from a small, isolated island and grabbed half the world. What does that tell you?

In order to achieve his empire, Alexander conquered Persia, which at the time had been the biggest and most powerful empire in the history of the world. Alexander conquered most of the known world, inspired thousands to follow him, and conquered his country's nemesis, the Greeks.

The Roman Empire if for no other reason than it was the first empire built not through conquest but through goodwill and a devotion to doing the right thing no matter the cost. See Empires of Trust by Thomas F. Madden for more information on this somewhat radical historical theory and for a generally great read.

long before the ages before signs of humans appeared there was one strong empire that even its hearing its name everyone used to get pissed off

IT WAS NONE OTHER CHUTIYA EMPIRE

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It depends how you define a great empire... the largest? most powerful? then that would be mongol or british.. the most technologically, economically, socially advanced? indian or chinese and maybe even arabian empires, those who grew causing the least amount of suffering on the way?

I think you mean purely in terms of military dominance and that would be mongol empire.