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Isabella I was Queen of Castile and León. She and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon brought…
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Gilgamesh is the main character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an Akkadian poem that is considered…
Nefertiti was the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Nefertiti and her…
Darius I was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Also called Darius the Great, he…
King Arthur was a legendary British leader of the late fifth and early sixth centuries, who,…
Henry the Navigator was an infante of the Kingdom of Portugal and an important figure in the…
Asia + Oceania
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Fu Xi or Fu Hsi of the San Huang Dynasty, was the first of the mythical Three Sovereigns of…
Cheng Yang of the Shang, Chinese Emperor, said to have reigned BC 1766. The Shang Dynasty or…
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama or simply the Buddha, after the title of…
Genghis Khan was the founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the…
Hirohito, the Showa Emperor, reigned over Japan from 1926 to 1989. He was known in the West by…