Who were the most inspirational people in history?
What are some examples of people who set out to do what they wanted and against all odds succeeded?
>>1886461
>Genghis Khan
>Alexander the great
>Mohamed
>Shivaji
>Shaka Zulu
>William the Conqueror
>Hannibal Barcas
>Baibars
>>1886461
Hitler not even /pol/ing.
That guy started as a bum with with nothing in his pockets and became one the most powerfull people of his time.
>>1887896
>Shaka zulu
>Literally less popular than Qin Shi Huang
>Inspirational
Hmm
>>1888357
And then committed suicide when he was about to lose the war
>>1888378
>Started out as a bastard son of the current Zulu chief
>Persecuted by his half brother
>Managed to assasinate half brother and take over kingdom
>Completely revolutionized Zulu warfare thereby setting up the path for the British defeat at Isandlwana
>Not inspirational
>>1887896
>Shaka Zulu
what's so special about him? isn't he only famous because he was conquered by the british?
>>1886461
Zhu Yuanzhang. In his twenties he was a beggar. In his fifties he was Emperor of China.
>>1886461
stop posting this dumb cuck already, justinian autism ruined byzantine empire in the long run and all of those conquest were done by belisarius
>>1889203
shaka died ~50 years too early for that. Dude basically transitioned his people from tribal to early bronze age warfare in a single generation. A very bloody brutal generation.
>>1890014
>transitioned his people from tribal to early bronze age warfare in a single generation
wow amazing!!
>>1889203
he did the sort of thing primitive conquerors do: unite scattered bumfucks into something that would eventually become a kingdom.
of course, then the Brits showed up.
>>1886461
Robert Guiscard, the 6th born son of a minor noble from the Normandy. 1047 he left home with only 5 men on horse and two dozen on foot. 40 years later he was duke of southern Italy and Sicilly, kicked the Arabs out and also Byzantine .
>its the Norman dream, baby!
>>1890249
Two exclamation poins is sarcasm right? Keep getting mixed up with 3 for insanity.
>>1886461
>Fucks over the man who wins back the empire
>Loses the regained land anyway
>Lol plague
>Lol no money spent it all on that land I won't own
>>1888842
Give him points for trying at least
>>1886461
>/his/
>Posting the meme emperor
Fuck outta here