swap_horiz Yaroslav the Wise Alternatives

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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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

King William I (the Conqueror)

King William I (c. 1028–1087), the Conqueror, was the Norman duke who invaded England and defeated King Harold II at the...

Medieval English Norman Conquest

8.7 Great

8

King Hammurabi

Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon's First Dynasty and ruled during the eighteenth century BCE. Through warfare and...

Code Babylonian Amorite Lawgiver

8.5 Great

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

King Cnut (Canute)

King Cnut (c. 995–1035) was a Danish king who conquered England by 1016 and ruled a North Sea empire encompassing Englan...

Danish English Viking 11TH Century

8.2 Great

13

Caliph Harun al-Rashid

Harun al-Rashid was the fifth Abbasid caliph and ruled from 786 to 809, when the caliphate extended across much of the M...

Golden Age 8TH Century Arab Abbasid

8.1 Great

14

King Brian Boru

Brian Boru was an Irish king of the Dál Cais dynasty who became king of Munster and later asserted authority as high kin...

Irish 11TH Century Dal Cais High King

8.1 Great

15

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

16

King Olaf II Haraldsson (Saint Olaf)

Olaf II Haraldsson was king of Norway from 1015 to 1028 and later became the country's patron saint, commonly known as S...

Norwegian 11TH Century Sainted Christianizer

7.7 Good

17

King Sigismund I the Old

Sigismund I the Old was king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania from 1506 until 1548, and a member of the Jagiellonia...

Polish Renaissance Golden Age 16TH Century

7.7 Good

18

King Rurik

Rurik was a Varangian leader whom the Primary Chronicle associates with the establishment of rule at Novgorod in 862. Th...

Founder Rurikid 9TH Century Rus

7.2 Good

19

King Macbeth of Scotland

Macbeth was a medieval ruler of the Scottish kingdom of Alba who became king after Duncan I was killed in battle in 1040...

Medieval Scottish Shakespeare 11TH Century

6.6 Fair

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Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible

Ivan IV, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 and the first ruler of Russia to...

Russian 16TH Century Rurikid Tyrant

5.4 Mediocre