1,000,000 – You failed to beat House Boissonade of the Latin Empire. After invading the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade and the conquest of Constantinople in 1204, Emperor Fabian Boissanade quickly set off to make the Latin Empire the one true, and Catholic, Eastern Roman Empire. (However, that would not last for long, because, when the Reformation spread its wings and flew, it took the Latin Empire with it, the state religion would be converted to Reformed and conversions would start soon after). Marrying himself to the king of Jerusalem's daughter, he quickly began plotting ways to kill the other heirs. When the Crusade was called to take Jerusalem back from Muslim hands, he went forward to the crusade with his Catholic brothers and sisters. When the Crusader army won, against all odds, he then waited for the King of Jerusalem to die and, without any other heirs, his wife was made Queen. The ensuing Jihad for Jerusalem had then failed, leaving him and his wife as the rulers of the Holy Land. Ruling together for eight years, before she finally died of natural causes, leaving their firstborn son as King of Jerusalem and still heir of the Latin Empire. When Fabian died, nearly fourteen years later, their eldest son Gilbert then began expanding the Latin Empire at a much faster rate than his parents. The Sultanate of Rum, the Byzantine Empire and all of the minor nations between Constantinople and Jerusalem were brought under the banner of the Latin Empire. In all, the Latin Empire held the kingdoms of Greece, Anatolia, Armenia, Georgia, Syria, and Jerusalem. Later on they would also bring the kingdoms of Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Iraq, and the duchies of Albania and Montenegro under their banner. They also had three 'colonies,' Tunisia/Libya, Guinea and the Philippines. In the year 1760, the Latin Empire became a revolutionary republic, much like France did some forty years later. Finally, in the year 1893, the last living Boissonade, her family already dethroned, was assassinated in Damascus by Communist revolutionaries. Eventually, in the early 1900s, the Latin Empire would lose much of its lands north of Greece and Asia Minor, as well as their colonies after the communists finally took over.
750,000 – You failed to beat House Bhavish, who were originally dukes of Tamilakam. At one point a dynasty that followed Hinduism, in 1066, some events happened that changed India forever. Firstly, the count of Mahoyadapuram was charged as a traitor, and so the duke had him jailed and took the county for himself. Secondly, upon traveling to the county, he discovered the Nestorian church there and converted. Once he converted, the rest of the duchy followed afterwards with many arrests and forced conversions of those who resisted. Of course, wars were declared on the other dukes of Tamilakam, and then eventually on the kingdom of Lanka, afterwards forming the kingdom of Tamilakam, where they were converted as well. Living in peace for the most part with the remainder of India, as well as the ownership of two Silk Road trade ports, the Bhavishids made money hand over fist. Eventually, when the king died, his two oldest sons inherited the thrones of Tamilakam and Lanka. However, the kingdoms were spared by European colonizers to India in later years, simply because they followed a Christian denomination. During the period of European colonization of India though, Tamilakam annexed the kingdom of Lanka, which was essentially a puppet state by 1444, took the island of Socotra from Yemen, because of its Nestorian origins there, and colonized the Andaman Islands, as well as a few other small Indian Ocean islands that were relatively insignificant. The kingdom also took the Northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Also, at this time, Tamilakam invaded and puppeted the kingdom of Andhra, ensuring that they would not be messed about by European powers, but eventually the Andhran monarchy was overthrown in 1845. However their neighbors of Mysore, Golconda, and the Marathan Empire were annexed by Britain. The Bhavish empire also sold Goa to Portugal and Pondicherry to France. Over the course of the next few centuries, Indian sovereignty became a hot issue with Mohandas Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi, taking the forefront. The Tamil kingdom supported their Hindu brothers and sisters, and eventually when India became an independent nation, the Tamil kingdom willingly integrated itself with the new nation, with the exception of Lanka, which was independent for a time, until they petitioned to be annexed by India. Then in 1904, the Johor Sultan asked India to protect his lands in his will, which they did, furthering the Indian sphere of influence.
500,000 – You failed to beat House Mamluk, originally born from two slaves, they managed to rise to fortune and fame when one of this dynasty became a count in the Sultanate of Delhi. Soon, they began plotting for more power. In 1206, they overthrew the Sultan of Delhi and installed their own dynasty as the new kings and queens. In 1250, some of the family had migrated to Egypt, where they found work as soldiers. Soon, in 1257, they made a successful coup d'état, and overthrew the Egyptian royal family. Afterwards, in the year 1311, the Egyptian side of the family had taken more lands, the borders now reaching present-day Syria and Iraq. And, in 1445, the Delhi branch of the dynasty created the empire of Hindustan. Soon though, collapses of both sides of the dynasty began, when Britain invaded the two nations separately. But, the dynasty survived in the Kingdom of Iraq and Syria up until 1911, when revolutionaries had made the final monarch abdicate the throne to allow for a democracy.
400,000 – You failed to beat House of Surrey. Beginning as a dynasty of count status after Duke William the Conqueror's war for England, the leader of the dynasty was Count Robert of, well, Surrey. Acting quickly, he consolidated his power base and waited for the correct time to strike. After the duke of Kent became incapable of ruling, he petitioned the now-King William for a claim on the title of duke. King William granted his wish and he quickly ousted the old duke. Now Duke Robert of Kent, he again waited for the opportunity to strike. When King William also became incapable of ruling after a battle, he didn't petition to become the heir as he knew William already had a son, instead declaring war on the Duke of East Anglia for his claim on the duchy. After winning the war and after William's passing, he then began to think about his strategy. Creating a faction to depose William's heir, who was still only a child, and install himself as King. With the help of the duchies of Mercia and Hwicce, they declared war, at the same time another pretender rose up in arms, the duke of Lancaster, who was in fact a Godwinson. Quickly defeating the enemy armies, he was then crowned King.
300,000 – You beat House Askari. Founded by a count in Mesopotamia, Zakaria Askari was soon able to create the duchy of Tigris, and later, form the kingdom of Mesopotamia in 921. After his younger son inherited the throne from his elder brother, he began his rise to a golden era for Persia. After taking the kingdoms of Persia and Khiva, he created the Empire of Persia, retaining the old empire's lands in 965. Soon after, going to the lands of the pagan Zunist religion, Enayat then converted to the religion from Islam, where he then forced his subjects to convert or die. Many did, but some plotted against the emperor and killed him, installing a new Muslim government and forcing his grandchildren into hiding, when his son was also killed, guarding his father's life. Many people were then forced to reconvert to Islam, and many didn't. Instead, reinstalling the firstborn grandchild of Enayat. Named Enayat III, the young man died shortly after of cancer, causing the realm to shake in the ensuing wars for power. After the final two pretenders died in battles where they led their armies, the dynasty faded into obscurity.
250,000 – You beat House Sinha, the rulers of Bengal. In 898, Chandra Sinha became king of the Bengal kingdom. A devout Jainist, he began only righteous wars after claiming the territories he went to war for. After his death in 902, his secondborn son, who was designated as his heir, became the next king. Marrying a wife of the Brahmin caste, he built her a temple, much like the Taj Mahal, for only himself and her to pray in. When she died suddenly, she was entombed in the temple, and when he died, he too was entombed into the temple. After his youngest son inherited the kingdom, he became emperor of the Bengali Empire in 953. When he died of cancer just after impregnating his wife, who was princess of the kingdom of Gujarat, when his only son was born to her, he inherited the entire empire, which was mostly ruled by herself as the regent. Making herself his heir, she had him killed and remarried her cousin in order to have her own dynasty rule in Bengal. Then, House Sinha faded into obscurity.
200,000 – You beat House Zacpal. Founded by Jonáš Zacpal in 1157, a count in Bohemia, he very quickly began plotting ways to rebel against his lords. In the year 1165, the Holy Roman Empire had three massive civil wars, all of which were started by claimants to the throne. It was at this time that he pounced on his chance. He fought an independence war against the king of Bohemia, who was busy already fighting in other wars to do anything. After taking the kingdom of Bohemia, he then struck again, this time, after Hungary. Taking the duchy of Slovakia, he soon after created the kingdom of Czechoslovakia. After the civil wars were finished and the battles were won, the emperor then declared war for the Bohemian lands. The empire won and Jonáš' son was then reduced in title to only duke, where the family stayed ruling Slovakia, but also now under the Hungarian kings.
150,000 – You beat House Shirvastav, who were minor counts in India. Beginning as a dynasty in 1258, the man who had founded the dynasty quickly realized why it was so terrible ruling in India during the Middle Ages, especially as only a count. While he didn't do much, his children did. While still fractured counts, they did own many different lands. Some were able to consolidate power to duchies, while others could not and some died without heirs. When the final Shirvastav finally died without an heir, who keep in mind, was only two years old, succumbed to disease in 1447, the dynasty then faded into obscurity.