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Rome's founder, or Rome's founding myth?
From modest beginnings to one of the largest empires.
300 Spartans hold the pass.
King at 20, with an empire from Greece to Persia.
Before Gaugamela, he went to sleep.
Alexander's general founds a dynasty in Egypt.
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He led war elephants across the Alps.
Outnumbered two to one, Hannibal annihilated Rome's army.
He led one of antiquity's most famous slave revolts.
Caesar, Antony, and a fight for Egypt's independence.
Crossing this river meant war with Rome.
Unrivaled power, then the Ides of March.
The secret marriage rites behind February 14.
A desert queen who defied the legions of Rome.
Kidnapped young, he returned to the land that held him.
The “Scourge of God” who terrified an empire.
Rome didn't fall in a day. It unraveled.
Constantinople burned. She refused to run.
At Yarmouk, he retreated to win.
The “Father of Europe,” made emperor in 800.
She steered the Rus from trade route toward statehood.
He united the German duchies and reached into Italy.
Hastings, 1066, and a new Anglo-Norman order.
From exiled captain to lord of Valencia.
He turned a frontier county into a kingdom.
A teenage king with leprosy holds off Saladin.
He took back Jerusalem with steel and restraint.
One fatal river crossing ended his crusade.
Acre, Arsuf, Jaffa, then a ransom for his freedom.
Born Temujin on the steppe, he built a vast empire.
The spies arrived six months before the army.
He steered Scotland to a lasting independence.
A line held at 16. A king captured at 26.
A year after minding sheep, she rode into Orléans.
An ancient city falls; an old empire is reshaped.
A 21-year-old sultan breaks the legendary walls.
The real prince behind the legend of Dracula.
From traumatized orphan to the most feared tsar.
He abandoned Moscow, then waited.
He set the monasteries of Mount Hiei on fire.
The plan had failed before the storms hit.
The tsar cut off the boyars' beards himself.
He carved a capital out of swamps.
The tsar had his own son tried for treason.
He built the Terror. Then it destroyed him.
Same man, same methods: Austerlitz, then Russia.
One thousand soldiers. No artillery. He came back.
One wrong turn, straight into Princip's path.
Every building was a separate war.
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