swap_horiz King Hammurabi Alternatives

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Emperor Charlemagne

Charlemagne became king of the Franks in 768 and king of the Lombards in 774, then held the imperial title from 800 unti...

Medieval Frankish 8TH Century Carolingian

9.20 Excellent

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Emperor Akbar the Great

Akbar, the third Mughal emperor, ruled from 1556 to 1605 and extended imperial authority across much of northern and cen...

Golden Age 16TH Century Mughal Timurid

9.20 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

9.20 Excellent

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Emperor Augustus Caesar

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

Roman First Emperor Founder Julio Claudian

9.20 Excellent

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King Sejong the Great

During his rule of Korea's Joseon dynasty from 1418 to 1450, King Sejong the Great made scholarship an important part of...

Korean Golden Age Joseon 15TH Century

9.20 Excellent

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Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I ruled England and Ireland from 1558 until her death in 1603, closing the Tudor dynasty. Her government estab...

Renaissance English Tudor 16TH Century

9.15 Excellent

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Emperor Taizong of Tang

The second emperor of China's Tang dynasty, Taizong ruled from 626 to 649 after helping his father establish the dynasty...

Military Tang Chinese Golden Age

9.15 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

9.10 Excellent

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Sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent

Suleiman I governed the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566, combining extensive military campaigns with legal and administ...

Ottoman 16TH Century Osman Lawgiver

9.05 Excellent

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King Cyrus II the Great

Cyrus II, known as Cyrus the Great, founded the Achaemenid Empire and ruled Persia from about 559 to 530 BCE. His conque...

Persian Founder Achaemenid 6TH Century Bc

9.05 Excellent

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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

8.90 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

8.90 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

8.90 Great

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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

8.85 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

8.85 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

8.80 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

8.75 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

8.75 Great

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Yaroslav the Wise

Yaroslav the Wise was grand prince of Kiev for most of the period from 1019 to 1054 and one of the principal rulers of K...

Golden Age Rurikid 11TH Century Lawgiver

8.20 Great

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King Nebuchadnezzar II

Nebuchadnezzar II was king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 605 to 562 BC and extended Babylonian power across much of...

Babylonian Chaldean 6TH Century Bc Destroyer

7.75 Good