swap_horiz Emperor Aurangzeb Alternatives

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Emperor Akbar the Great

Akbar was the third Mughal emperor, ruling from 1556 to 1605 and extending Mughal authority across much of northern and...

Golden Age 16TH Century Mughal Timurid

9.2 Excellent

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Emperor Trajan

Trajan was Roman emperor from 98 to 117 CE and the second ruler conventionally included among the Nerva-Antonine emperor...

Expansion Roman 2ND Century Nerva Antonine

8.9 Great

3

Emperor Kangxi

The Kangxi Emperor ruled Qing China from 1661 to 1722, giving him the longest recorded reign of any Chinese emperor. Dur...

Expansion Chinese 17TH Century Long Reign

8.8 Great

4

King Darius I the Great

Darius I ruled the Achaemenid Persian Empire from 522 to 486 BCE. He consolidated and expanded the empire, organized its...

Expansion Persian Achaemenid 6TH Century Bc

8.8 Great

5

Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab

Umar ibn al-Khattab was the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, ruling from 634 until his death in 644. During his...

Expansion Arab Caliph 7TH Century

8.7 Great

6

Tsar Peter I the Great

Peter I ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725, first as tsar and later under the title emperor, and pursued extensive military,...

Russian 17TH Century Founder Modernizer

8.6 Great

7

King Gustav II Adolf

Gustav II Adolf was king of Sweden from 1611 until his death in 1632 and a leading Protestant commander in the Thirty Ye...

Swedish 17TH Century Thirty Years War Vasa

8.4 Great

8

King Louis XIV

King Louis XIV of France (1638–1715), the 'Sun King,' ruled from 1643 in the longest reign of any major European monarch...

French Bourbon 17TH Century United States

8.3 Great

9

Emperor Yongle

The Yongle Emperor was the third emperor of China's Ming dynasty, reigning from 1402 to 1424 after taking the throne fro...

Expansion Chinese 14TH Century Forbidden City

8.3 Great

10

Sultan Selim I

Selim I was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 until his death in 1520. He defeated the Safavid army at Chaldiran in...

Expansion Grim Ottoman 16TH Century

8.1 Great

11

King Bolesław I the Brave

Bolesław I the Brave was duke of Poland from 992 and the first Polish ruler to be crowned king, receiving the crown in 1...

Polish Expansion Piast 11TH Century

7.9 Good

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Emperor Babur

Babur (1483-1530) was a Timurid prince from Central Asia and the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent...

Founder 16TH Century Mughal Central Asian

7.8 Good

13

King Jan III Sobieski

Jan III Sobieski was king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania from 1674 until 1696. An experienced military commander,...

Polish 17TH Century Vienna Sobieski

7.8 Good

14

Emperor Huayna Capac

Huayna Capac was an Inca ruler who governed during the early 16th century and continued the imperial expansion begun by...

Expansion South American Inca 16TH Century

7.5 Good

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King William III (of Orange)

King William III of Orange (1650–1702) was the Dutch stadtholder who deposed James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688...

British Dutch 17TH Century Orange Nassau

7.4 Good

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Timur (Tamerlane)

Timur, also known in European sources as Tamerlane, was a Central Asian conqueror who lived from 1336 to 1405 and founde...

Central Asian 14TH Century Timurid Conqueror

7.3 Good

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King Tigranes II the Great

Tigranes II, commonly called Tigranes the Great, ruled Armenia from 95 to 55 BC as a monarch of the Artaxiad dynasty. Th...

Expansion Armenian Artaxiad 1ST Century Bc

7.3 Good

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Emperor Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan was the fifth Mughal emperor, ruling from 1628 until 1658 during a period noted for imperial architecture and...

17TH Century Builder Mughal Taj Mahal

7.1 Good

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King James I of England

James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) became James I of England and Ireland in 1603, bringing the crowns under one monarch wh...

English 17TH Century Union Stuart

7.0 Good

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Emperor Leopold I

Leopold I was Holy Roman emperor from 1658 to 1705 and ruler of the Habsburg hereditary lands. His reign included prolon...

Baroque 17TH Century Habsburg Holy Roman

7.0 Good