swap_horiz Emperor Babur Alternatives

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Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I was queen of England and Ireland from 1558 until her death in 1603, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. H...

Renaissance English Tudor 16TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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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 Augustus Caesar

Augustus, born Gaius Octavius and later known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor, ruling from 27 BCE until 14 CE....

Roman First Emperor Founder Julio Claudian

9.2 Excellent

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Sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent

Suleiman I ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566, leading campaigns in Hungary, the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and...

Ottoman 16TH Century Osman Lawgiver

9.1 Excellent

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King Cyrus II the Great

Cyrus II, commonly called Cyrus the Great, founded the Achaemenid Empire and ruled Persia from about 559 to 530 BCE. Thr...

Persian Founder Achaemenid 6TH Century Bc

9.1 Excellent

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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

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Emperor Chandragupta Maurya

Chandragupta Maurya founded the Maurya Empire in the late fourth century BCE after overthrowing the Nanda dynasty and ga...

Indian Founder 4TH Century Bc Unifier

8.6 Great

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King Stephen I of Hungary

Stephen I was the first king of Hungary, ruling from about 1000 or 1001 until 1038 after consolidating authority among t...

Hungarian Founder Arpad 11TH Century

8.4 Great

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Shah Abbas I the Great

Abbas I ruled Safavid Iran from 1588 to 1629 and strengthened the monarchy through military, administrative, and economi...

Golden Age Persian 16TH Century Safavid

8.4 Great

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Sundiata Keita

Sundiata Keita was a 13th-century ruler remembered as the founder of the Mali Empire in West Africa. Oral traditions des...

African Founder 13TH Century Lion King

8.3 Great

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Prince Vladimir I the Great

Vladimir I was grand prince of Kiev from about 980 to 1015 and a ruler of the Rurik dynasty. After adopting Byzantine Ch...

Founder 10TH Century Rurikid Kievan Rus

8.3 Great

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King Gustav Vasa

Gustav Vasa was king of Sweden from 1523 to 1560 and the founder of the hereditary Vasa dynasty. He led the rebellion th...

Swedish Reformation 16TH Century Vasa

8.3 Great

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King Henry IV of France

King Henry IV of France (1553–1610) was the first Bourbon king, whose 1598 Edict of Nantes granted religious toleration...

French Bourbon United States 16TH Century

8.1 Great

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Emperor Charles V

Charles V (1500-1558) was a Habsburg monarch who ruled Spain as Charles I from 1516 and served as Holy Roman Emperor fro...

Spain 16TH Century Habsburg Holy Roman

8.1 Great

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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

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Moshoeshoe I

Moshoeshoe I was the founder of the Basotho kingdom and the central figure in the formation of modern Lesotho during the...

19TH Century African Founder Lesotho

8.0 Great

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King Mieszko I of Poland

Mieszko I was the first historically documented ruler of the polity that developed into Poland, governing from about 960...

Polish Founder 10TH Century Piast

7.9 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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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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Emperor Aurangzeb

Aurangzeb was the sixth Mughal emperor of India, ruling from 1658 until his death in 1707. During his reign, the Mughal...

Expansion Religious 17TH Century Mughal

6.0 Fair