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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 Charlemagne

Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768, king of the Lombards from 774, and emperor from 800 until his death in 814....

Medieval Frankish 8TH Century Carolingian

9.2 Excellent

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Emperor Taizong of Tang

Emperor Taizong was the second emperor of China's Tang dynasty, reigning from 626 to 649 after helping his father establ...

Military Tang Chinese Golden Age

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 Ashoka the Great

Ashoka was the third ruler of the Maurya Empire, reigning over much of the Indian subcontinent from about 268 to 232 BCE...

Indian Buddhist Reformer 3RD Century Bc

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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King Sejong the Great

King Sejong the Great ruled Korea's Joseon dynasty from 1418 to 1450. He sponsored the creation of Hangul, promulgated i...

Korean Golden Age Joseon 15TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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King Alfred the Great

King Alfred the Great (849–899) was the Anglo-Saxon King of Wessex who halted the Viking conquest of England, promoted l...

English Defender Saxon 9TH Century

9.1 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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Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror

Mehmed II was an Ottoman sultan who reigned from 1444 to 1446 and again from 1451 to 1481. On May 29, 1453, his forces c...

Ottoman 15TH Century Conqueror Osman

8.9 Great

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Emperor Meiji

Emperor Meiji reigned over Japan from 1867 to 1912, during the political transformation known as the Meiji Restoration....

19TH Century Japanese Meiji Restoration Modernization

8.9 Great

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Emperor Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 CE, ruling first alongside Lucius Verus and later alongside his son Co...

Stoic Roman 2ND Century Nerva Antonine

8.9 Great

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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

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Emperor Pachacuti

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui was the ninth Sapa Inca and ruled during the fifteenth century, traditionally from 1438 to 1471....

South American Inca Builder 15TH Century

8.9 Great

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King Frederick II the Great

Frederick II was king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 and a member of the Hohenzollern dynasty. His seizure of Silesia from...

Military 18TH Century Hohenzollern Prussian

8.8 Great

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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

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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

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Sultan Saladin

Saladin, born Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, was a Kurdish military leader who founded the Ayyubid dynasty and ruled Egyp...

12TH Century Kurdish Crusades Ayyubid

8.8 Great

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King Philip II of Macedon

Philip II was king of Macedon from 359 to 336 BCE and the father of Alexander the Great. He transformed Macedonia into a...

Military Macedonian Argead 4TH Century Bc

8.7 Great