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1. He was born in Palestine in 73 B.C. but became a Roman citizen after his father helped the Romans in a civil war. The Bible tells us that he ordered the massacre of all male babies in Bethlehem because it was predicted that one of them would be the "King of the Jews".
2. This Roman Emperor started his reign as a popular Emperor but soonafter, he showed his cruelty by killing his own legion gathering the soldiers without their weapons and having them murdered. He killed friends and helpers in the presence of their parents or children, invented "treason trials" so he could confiscate the possessions of the people on trial, had an incestuous relationship with his sister and killed his brother. He allegedly made his horse Roman consul.
3. This ambitious and cruel king of the Huns, known as the "scourge of God" inherited a huge empire with his brother, but wanted more and fought for control of the Balkans, Constantinople, Persia and also Western Europe, invading Gaul and Italy. He murdered his brother and in the course of his trail through Europe, ransacked towns, violated women, made slaves of those he did not kill and returned home with his booty. He is said to have died while sleeping, drowning in his own blood.
4. This Count of Wallachia was responsible for the death of over 50,000 people. He was raised in Turkey as the prisoner of the Turkish sultan who had taken him and his brother hostage to guarantee that the boys' father would not attack the Turks. Eventually, upon his father's death, he was allowed to return and rule over his territory in Wallachia where he took revenge of his father's enemies by impaling them, his favorite method of killing.
5. This Russian Tsar came to the throne when he was 17 years old. When his father died he was only three years old and was neglected by relatives and saw murder and treason among the people surrounding him. He became very disturbed, enjoying rape and murder. After he married Anastasia, a Romanov princess, he changed and became a good ruler. Unfortunately, after his wife died in childbirth, he went back to his old ways.
6. This king was handsome, educated, fond of hunting and gifted in many ways but eventually, he became a tyrant who killed even his own friends, among them his childhood friend, Sir Thomas More. He married six times and had two of his wives decapitated. He broke away from Roman Catholicism and made himself Head of the Church of England. He left a son who died at a young age and two daughters, who both became queens.
7. This ruler was born Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashhvili. He joined the Bolshevik faction in 1903 and even robbed banks to obtain money for the party. He was exiled to Siberia in 1913 right after he changed his name. He came back to Russia in 1917 and played a key role as a member of the Communist Party. In 1924, he became the ruler of Russia.
8. Hitler was responsible for the murder of six million Jews and millions of others, making him one of the very worst tyrants in history. He wanted to purge the world of Jews and to create a race that would control the world, the Aryan race. In 1924 he had been imprisoned for treason with a sentence of five years although he only served nine months. During his time in Landsberg Prison, he wrote a book explaining his ideas on racial purity and other philosophical themes. What was the book's name?
9. Saddam Hussein controlled Iraq since 1968, becoming president in 1979 until 2003. He murdered hundreds of rivals in his ascent to the presidency and later, through very strong repression, was able to eliminate all his enemies. He invaded Iran, gassed the Kurds, invaded Kuwait, drained the homeland of Marsh Arabs and killed and tortured thousand of people. In what place was he born?
10. Who is the Latin America dictator came to power in 1959? He is responsible for the death of thousands of people and for the massive exodus of his citizens into neighboring countries. He has turned his homeland, which was quite advanced in comparison to other countries in Latin America, into a poor country where there is a lack of everything and where tourists are kept from talking to the natives and don't see the misery these are suffering.
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