Post Your Top Ten Historical Figures

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>>2432074
1) Augustus Caesar
2) Charlemagne
3) Genghis Khan Temudgin
4) Baibars
5) Hernan Cortez
6) Alexander the Great
7) Napoleon Bonaparte
8) Hammurabi
9) Alcibiades (would've been considered one of the greatest leaders of all time if his own fucking city's politicians weren't such jealous whores)
10) Figan the Unpunished

>>2432074
1. Julius Caesar
2. Julius Caesar
3. Julius Caesar
4. Julius Caesar
5. Julius Caesar
6. Julius Caesar
7. Julius Caesar
8. Julius Caesar
9. Julius Caesar
10. Julius Caesar

>>2432074
how old does it have to be to count as a historical figure?

>>2432134
I don't get it, did you have an epileptic seizure while writing this Caesar?

>>2432140
25 year rule

>>2432161
25 years since their death?

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>>2432074
In no specific order:
Napoleon
Julius Caesar
Bismarck
Maximilian I/Mexico
Theodore Roosevelt
Hannibal
Frederick the Great
Peter the Great
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Charlemagne

>>2432168
sure we'll go with that

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>>2432134
>because he SPITS hot fire

Alright listen here you little shits

FDR
Erwin Rommel
Cinncinatus
George Washington Carver (peanut butter guys come on)
Albert Einstein
Teddy Roosevelt
Andrew Jackson
Caeser
Otto von Bismark
Napoleon

>>2432074
Julius Caesar
Charles XII
Frederick the Great
Napoleon
Rundstedt
Baldwin IV
Theodore Roosevelt
Voltaire
Simo Hayha
Alexander the Great

>>2432148
kys

>>2432170
Why Maximillian?

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>>2432191
His life is one of the most tragic I´ve read about, and always makes me wonder what would have happenned had he consolidated power.
THE REPUBLIC WAS A MISTAKE

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1. Hannibal Barca
2. Hannibal Barca
3. Hannibal Barca
4. Hannibal Barca
5. Hannibal Barca
6 Hannibal Barca
7. Hannibal Barca
8.Hannibal Barca
9. Hannibal Barca
10. Hannibal Barca

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>>2432242
>MUH ELEPHANTS

>>2432074

>tfw there is more than one poster who mentioned Rommel

I can't even. How the fuck does a mediocre general who was most famous for (badly) handling a tertiary theater in WW2 become one of the top ten historical figures of all time? He's not even a top ten general of WW2. He did absolutely jack shit to influence macrohistory.

>>2432252

buttsore britshit detected

>>2432252
Propaganda m8.
Rommel was the perfect figure for the Nazi period
Taste is subjective usually.

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Henry Ford
Edmund Morgan
Sun Tzu
Teddy Roosevelt
Richard the Lionheart
Bobby Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
Oliver Kromwell
Elvis Presley
Ty Cobb

>>2432252
He fought with honor, wasn't anti semetic, everyone liked the fucking guy. He also fought in WWI. He's a tragic figure of history that was born on the wrong side of the battlefield

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These are in no particular order

Benjamin Franklin
Napoleon Bonaparte
Julius Caesar
James Madison
Cardinal Richelieu
Andrew Jackson
Diogenes
Aurelian
Talleyrand
Cortez

>>2432074
okay fuck this is really rough I had to make a lot of tough cuts

no particular order

Nikola Tesla
Thomas Jefferson
Sargon of Akkad
Alexander the Great
Friedrich Nietzsche
Calvin Coolidge
Shaka Zulu
Diogenes
Erwin Rommel
Julius Caesar

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>>2432278
Who did you remove to put Sargon in that list?

>>2432074
Oda Nobunaga
Oliver Cromwell
Hadrian
George Washington
Cao Cao
Gustavus Adolphus
Napoleon Bonaparte
Frederick the Great
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Jean-Paul Sartre

>>2432285
Mozart, Benjamin Franklin

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>>2432278
>Shaka Zulu

>>2432288
Ok, why Shaka ?
Honest inquiry.

>>2432291
shaka was based, a genius among africans, better than they ever could have hoped for

>>2432296
Not even in the top 30 of his own continent.

>>2432286
Honorable mention: Belisarius

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Ancient world:

Alexander the Great
Cyrus the Great
Ramesses II
Thutmose III
Hadrian
Scipio Africanus
Julius Caesar
Jesus of Nazareth
Euclid
Plato

Modern world:

Napoleon
Issac Newton
Frederick the Great
Leonardo da Vinci
William Shakespeare
Ludwig van Beethoven
Muhammad
Nikola Tesla
Adam Smith
Goethe

No particular order:

William of Orange

Henry the Navigator

William Bligh

Gotthard Heinrici

Patton

Augustus

Geoege V

Louis XIV

Enrico Dandolo

Oliver Cromwell

>>2432324
thats fucking cheating

>>2432295
shaka was a boss, in like 10-15 years he created a fighting force that almost beat with spears the British army. read up on him what he did. was pretty amazing

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>>2432333

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>>2432333

>>2432074
this is a fucking meme tier list

in order of appearance:

Hammurabi
Cyrus II
Thutmose III
Confucius
Pericles
Julius Caesar
Jesus Christ
Trajan
Constantine
Adam Smith

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>>2432337
>>2432349

>>2432074
Boudica
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Luxemburg
Andrea Dworkin
Grace Kelly
Hypatia
Emma Goldman
Mother Theresa
Emmeline Pankhurst
Hillary Clinton

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>>2432374
>No Hatshepslut
mfw

>>2432336
>Implying that the Anglo Zulu war happened 10-15 years after Shaka created the army
>Implying the British used their full force

Anyways my top ten are: (in no particular order)
Otto von Bismarck
Julius Caesar
Gustavus Adolphus
Napoleon Bonaparte
Horatio Nelson
Oliver Cromwell
Frederick the Great
John D. Rockefeller
Genghis Khan
desu Cao Cao was pretty lit too, Cao Cao

>>2432074
>Cao Cao
>No Qin Shi Huangdi

>>2432134

>not

>I IVLIVS CAESAR
>II IVLIVS CAESAR
>III IVLIVS CAESAR
>IV IVLIVS CAESAR
>V IVLIVS CAESAR
>VI IVLIVS CAESAR
>VII IVLIVS CAESAR
>VIII IVLIVS CAESAR
>IX IVLIVS CAESAR
>X IVLIVS CAESAR

>>2432394
yes but they still followed his bull tactic. He knew the type of people he was working with. It's simple, easy to explain to others, easy to coordinate, and can be pretty effective. They were able to continue using it after his death.

>>2432416
That's not what you said though, you said he built a fighting force that almost beat the British Army with spears. That is also not entirely true, as the Zulu had looted British rifles as well as older rifles.

>>2432074
Machiavelli
Ibn Khaldun
Maimonides
El Cid
LBJ's penis
Lazaro Cardenas
George Orwell
Diogenes of Sinope
Friedrich der Grosse
Miguel de Cervantes
Henry George

>>2432176
Andrew Jackson's a meme president. He caused one of the worst panics in American history.

>>2432330
Louis XIV is a good monarch, but I think he's often rated higher than he should be. It was his military failures and his love of women that really started to put heavy strain on the French treasury, leaving his successors to cope with the issue.

>>2432361
Adam Smith seems like an odd choice, given that list. Any particular reason, considering there are a lot more economists throughout history with significantly more comprehensive ideas?

>>2432816
no that wasnt me. I'm the guy who put him on my list, and then another Shaka fan jumped in.

Though I'm not sure I see the contradiction. They still used his strategy. And he really created a whole warrior culture, sometimes Spartanesque. If he had not existed, the no african tribe would have posed such a threat to the British. Before Zulu there were just tactless spearchuckers. Passionless battles, almost peaceful, a small number of deaths. No leadership. Shaka shooka things up, CQC. I might be incoherently rambling but that's what happens when you talk about Shaka because he's cool and cool things make you incoherently ramble

>>2432840
I'm on my phone so I'm not going to type a long reply -- I will if I see this thread later -- but Andrew Jackson wasn't a "meme president." He was a great and very consequential president. Ironically, most of the things that people shit on him for are, the themselves, memes.

>>2432890
Oh, my bad.

It was an excellent strategy, but saying that the Zulu posed a threat to the British is like saying the Republic of Texas posed a threat to the United States.

Julius Caesar
Majorian
Hannibal
Pedro II
Joan of Arc
Napoleon
Oda Nobunaga
Genghis Khan
Elizabeth I
Alexander the Great

>Napoleon
>Julius Caesar
>Churchill
>Alexander the Great
>Tesla
>Einstein
>Hitler
>Nelson
>Hannibal
>Talleyrand

>>2432840
MUH BANKS

Yeah, Andrew Jackson was a good meme, but he also fought a battle using wet cotton as a wall and hiring pirates so it balances out

>>2432074
Chlodwig rex
The Black Prince
Erwin Rommel
Yi Sun-Sin
Kemal Pasha
Karl the Great
Gorbatschow (he may have saved the world)
Herakleios
Dictator Fabius Maximus
Genghis Khan