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1. This Roman emperor was one of the worst tyrants of the Roman Empire. He murdered his mother, Agrippina, made outstanding citizens commit suicide, like Seneca and the poet Lucan, he blamed the Christians for the fire in Rome and persecuted and killed thousands of them. It is said that this fire inspired him to sing or play the lyre. Who was this emperor?
2. This ruler of the Mongols was born in 1162. He was responsible for the death of several million people. He unified the Mongol tribes and conquered all territories near him and beyond, killing and burning every place he went to. He massacred 30,000 people in Samarkand, killed 70,000 in Nessa, murdered all inhabitants of Neyshabur and Herat except for 400 people who were taken as slaves. He also killed all Russian knights in Kalka, destroyed the kingdom of Bulgars and Kazahkstan and brought death and destruction in his path through Eurasia. Who was this Mongol ruler?
3. He was the Spaniard who conquered the Aztecs and their beautiful city of Tenochtitlan, only with 500 men and 16 horses. The Aztecs believed that their god, Quetzalcoatl, who was exiled by the Olmecs, the Aztecs' predecessors, would return. The Indians thought he was the god and he exploited this myth arriving in Tenochtitlan with little resistance. What was this conquistador's name?
4. The Grand Inquisitor of Spain, confessor to Queen Isabella of Castile, Dominican friar, man of God? He was born in Valladolid where he entered the Dominican monastery and later, became prior of the Monastery of Santa Cruz in Segovia, where he met the queen. He wrote the 28 articles used by inquisitors to eliminate Jews, false "conversos" and heretics. He was instrumental in for the expulsion of Jews from Spain and the creator of different methods of torture to extract a confession. Who was he?
5. He was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution. He was born in Arras and educated in Paris. He moved back to Arras to practice law. He was nicknamed "The Incorruptible" and at Louis XVI's trial, he asked for the king's death. He was the revolutionary behind the Terror, the bloodiest chapter of the French Revolution, when thousands were guillotined. Who was this revolutionary?
6. He was the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. He was elected "President for Life" in 1964. He had studied medicine and practiced for several years. His nickname was "Papa Doc". He is best known for his rural militia, called the TonTon Macoutes, a group larger than the regular army, formed from believers in voodoo, who would assassinate anyone suspected of being against Papa Doc. What is the name of this dictator?
7. He was president of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1938 and from 1942 to 1953. After he stepped down from the presidency, he still ruled the country until he was assassinated in 1961. Like most dictators, he organized a special police to torture and murder those who openly disagreed with his government. He accumulated a very large fortune using his power to seize bank accounts and control most industries in the country. He was assassinated in 1961. Who was he?
8. He arrived in Iran in 1979, after an exile in Paris. He was a Shi'ite cleric who became the political and religious leader of the nation when the Shah fled his country. He closed the new parliament, suppressed and killed anyone against his government, forced women to wear the veil and enforced the punishments required by Islamic Law. During his government, students took over the American Embassy and held 52 employees hostage for over a year. Who was he?
9. He became president of Uganda after a military coup and made himself president for life in 1976, five years after the coup d'état. He was known around the world for being pretentious and for promoting himself, saying he was the most important figure in the world. He murdered the husbands of all women he liked, expelled all citizens of Asian origin, allowed the hijacked French plane carrying Israeli passengers to land in Entebbe and allied himself with the President of Libya, another enemy of the West. He liked to claim that he was the King of Scotland. What was this dictator's name?
10. This dictator's main plan was to create in Cambodia a socialist society where money and property were abolished, a society without all the symbols of Western Civilization, like private homes, churches, cars. He made Cambodia one vast concentration camp where intellectuals, doctors, professors were killed. He made it a crime to speak French or to wear glasses, signs of being an intellectual. His army, the Khmer Rouge, was feared by everyone. Who was he?
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