Name | Description | Reign | % Correct |
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Napoleon Bonaparte | Serving as First Consul and then Emperor of France, he conquered large swathes of Europe | 1799-1804, 1804-1814, 1815 | 98%
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Abraham Lincoln | President of the U.S. during American Civil War | 1861-1865 | 93%
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Emperor Hirohito | He "led" Japan through the Second World War and the following recovery | 1926-1989 | 93%
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Leonid Brezhnev | His reign over the USSR was second only to Stalin's in duration | 1964-1982 | 91%
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Queen Victoria | Monarch of Britain through the Industrial Revolution | 1837-1901 | 83%
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Louis XIV | "The Sun King" built the Palace of Versailles | 1643-1715 | 78%
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Sitting Bull | The principal leader of the entire Sioux nation, he famously defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn | 1867-1890 | 74%
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Charlemagne | He was the first Holy Roman Emperor | 800-814 | 74%
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Frederick the Great | "Old Fritz" was a leader for the Prussian military and the Enlightenment | 1740-1786 | 72%
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Constantine the Great | Arguably, his most important act as Emperor of Rome was conversion to Christianity | 306-337 | 70%
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Alexander the Great | As King of Macedonia, he captured pieces of Western Asia and Northern Africa | 336-323 BCE | 65%
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Genghis Khan | As Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, he conquered most of Eurasia and killed thousands | 1206-1227 | 61%
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Ivan the Terrible | The first Tsar of all Russia | 1547-1575, 1575-1584 | 52%
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Suleiman the Magnificent | He ruled as sultan over the Ottoman Empire during its peak in economic and military power | 1520-1566 | 41%
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Prajadhipok | Revolution forced Siam's last absolute monarch to abdicate; its rural economy was hit hard by worldwide economic depression | 1925-1935 | 24%
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Ashoka the Great | One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka controlled almost all India and promoted the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia | c.268-232 BCE | 24%
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Ezana of Axum | King of Axum (centered in modern-day Ethiopia), he conquered the Kingdom of Kush and converted the kingdom to Christianity | c. 320-360 | 24%
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Hammurabi | Known for his set of codified laws, which he claimed to receive from Shamash, the Babylonian god of justice | c. 1792-1750 BCE | 15%
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Nebuchadnezzar II | This King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire allegedly had the Hanging Gardens Built and had the title "King of the Universe" | 605-562 BCE | 13%
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K'inich Janaab' Pakal | He was ajaw of the Mayan city-state Palenque, and his tomb, the Temple of Inscriptions, has extensive glyph writing and records | 615-683 | 4%
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