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1. The Sumerians are one of the earliest recorded civilizations, and they were also one of the first to be conquered. Name the king of Akkad who conquered them around 2300 BC and ended up unifying the entire Fertile Crescent under his leadership.
2. This pharoah of Egypt reigned for over 50 years, from 1479 to 1425 BC. He won the Battle of Megiddo, the first recorded battle in history, and is reported never to have lost a battle. After conquering cities in Syria, the Fertile Crescent, Palestine, and even Nubia, he expanded the Egyptian Empire to its greatest extent.
3. In the 500s BC, this man was responsible for the creation of the Persian Empire, which reached from the Asia Minor in the West to the Indus River in the East. Nicknamed "the Great" and buried in a tomb that stands to this day, who was this ancient Persian king?
4. This king of Macedonia and Greece conquered the mighty Persian Empire and even ventured deep into India before his troops rebelled and forced him to turn back. Dying of disease at age 32 in Babylon having come close to conquering the world, who was this famous general responsible for spreading Greek culture?
5. This man unified China, the "Middle Kingdom" or "Center of the World", in 221 BC. Styling himself the First Emperor, he began building the Great Wall to protect China from barbarians, burned thousands of Confucian books, and was buried in an underground mausoleum guarded by thousands of terracotta warriors.
6. Born in modern Spain, this Roman Emperor, the second of the Five Good Emperors, conquered the province of Dacia (and its valuable gold mines) and built a famous column in Rome to celebrate his triumph. He then waged war on the Parthian Empire to the East, takinng its capital and large parts of Mesopotamia. At the time of his death in 117 AD, he ruled over practically every land from Britain to Iran.
7. Probably the most famous conqueror of all time, he and his horsemen swept through all of Asia, and created the Mongol Empire, extending from the Sea of Japan to the Caspian Sea at the time of his death. His successors went on to expand the Empire into the largest contiguous empire in history, even threatening Europe.
8. This Islamic warlord of a Central Asian nomadic tribe forged a large empire in Central Asia in the late 1300s, while plundering cities from Delhi to Moscow to enhance his capital, Samarkand. He is famed for being lame in one leg, and for creating pyramids of human skulls from the people he conquered to encourage future towns to surrender.
9. Ascending to the throne in 1516, this Spanish king ended up ruling an enormous empire. He was the grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain and the grandson of Emperor Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, and the son of Phillip the Fair of Burgundy. He also presided over the Spanish conquests of the Aztecs and Incans in the New World, which added territory greater than all of his European holdings combined.
10. Finally, at the end of the 18th century and in the early 19th century, one man managed to take over France and lead its armies to spread the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity - and to expand France, of course. Who was this famous emperor who nearly managed to conquer all of Europe before being beaten by a coalition of his enemies at Waterloo?
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