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Country
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Name
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Author of "The Art of War", great military theorist
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China (Wu)
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Sun Tzu
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Conqueror of the Middle East, creator of Persian superpower
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Persia (Achaemenids)
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Cyrus The Great
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Conqueror of Thrace and Asia Minor, started the wars against Greek poleis
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Persia (Achaemenids)
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Darius The Great
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Defeated Persian forces on the shores of Marathon (490 BC). Stopped their advance in Greece for 10 years.
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Athens
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Militiades
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Subjugated Greeks to Macedonia. Creator of Macedonian military power
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Macedon
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Philip of Macedonia
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Conqueror of Persian Empire and The East. Started a new period in history of humanity
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Macedon
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Alexander the Great
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Commaned Punic armies in Second Punic War, destroyed the Romans in Cannae (216 BC)
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Carthage
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Hannibal
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Unifier of China, creator of Chinese Empire
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China
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Qin Shi Huang
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Defeated Punic armies under Zama in 202 BC , conqueror of Africa
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Roman Republic
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Scipio Africanus
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Conqueror of Greece, turned Corinth into ashes in 146 BC
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Roman Republic
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Flamininus
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Conqueror of the Gaul, victorious in the civil war, established a dictatorship in Rome
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Roman Republic
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Julius Caesar
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Defeated Mithridates, Spanish tribes and Mediterranean pirates. Killed in Egypt after defeat in Pharsalus
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Roman Republic
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Gnaeus Pompeius
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Roman Emperor, conqueror of Dacia and pushed Roman influence into Mesopotamia
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Roman Empire (Principate)
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Trajan
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Often called "The last of the Romans" Destroyed the Huns on the Catalunian plains in 451 and won many wars against Visigoths and the Franks
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Roman Empire (Dominate)
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Aetius
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Leader of Hunnic armies, their cavalry spread fear in Europe in the Early Middle Ages
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The Huns
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Attila
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Gladius Romanus, liberated Italy and Northern Africa from the barbarians in attempt to reestablish Roman Rule
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Eastern Roman Empire
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Belisarius
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Conqueror of Syria, intervened in conflicts in the arabic world after death of Muhammad
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Islamic Caliphate
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Khalid ibn al-walid
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Expanded Frankish Empire to the east, establishing margraviates and consolidating Frankish rule over Western Europe
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Frankish Empire
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Charlemagne
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Eastern Roman Emperor, defeated Bulgars in 1018.
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Eastern Roman Empire
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Basil II
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First norman king of England, seized the throne after military intervention and Battle of Hastings in 1066
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Normans
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William the Conqueror
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Creator of the Mongol Empire. Led hordes across whole Asia
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Mongol Empire
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Genghis Khan
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Defeated Teutons on the lake Peipus, preventing their advance into Russia
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Novgorod Republic
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Alexander Nevsky
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Crushed Teutonic forces on the fields of Grunwald, preventing their further advance into Eastern Europe
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Poland and Lithuania
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Jagiełło
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Sultan, defeated crusaders in the Middle East
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Ayybuid Dynasty
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Saladin
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Mongol-originated conqueror of central Asia and Persia
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Timurid Empire
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Tamerlane
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Young woman, who led French armies during the siege of Orleans
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France
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Joan d'Arc
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Proclaimed Shogun, unified Japan under his rule. Founder of Tokyo
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Japan
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Tokugawa
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