swap_horiz Kublai Khan 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 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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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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King Louis IX (Saint Louis)

King Louis IX of France (1214–1270), canonized as Saint Louis in 1297, led the Seventh and Eighth Crusades and was renow...

French 13TH Century Crusades Capet

8.1 Great

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Sultan Baybars

Baybars was the Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria from 1260 to 1277 and an important architect of the early Mamluk state....

13TH Century Turkic Crusades Mamluk

8.1 Great

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King Edward I

Edward I, born in 1239, ruled England from 1272 until his death in 1307. His conquest of Wales resulted in the defeat of...

Medieval English 13TH Century Plantagenet

7.5 Good

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King Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was prince of Gwynedd and the leading native Welsh ruler of the 13th century. The Treaty of Montgom...

Welsh Independence 13TH Century Gwynedd

7.0 Good

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King John I of England

King John I of England (1166-1216) reigned from 1199 until his death. A son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine and the...

Medieval English 13TH Century Magna Carta

3.6 Poor