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Monks opened his tomb and swore a dragon came out of it.Charles MartelCut the royal kitchen to two peacocks and a deer.AshokaHis bones came home to Sparta forty years afterwards.LeonidasSpent his boyhood as an Ottoman hostage for his father.Vlad the ImpalerA Roman historian called him a bandit of low birth.Arsaces IAt fifteen he inherited, then killed off every rival king.Clovis IHis heir was knouted twice and died in the fortress.Peter the GreatShe waited on sixty-five inoculated children at dinner.Maria TheresaHe chaired the council on orthodoxy while unbaptised.Constantine the GreatFriends took the razors away when he broke his engagement.Abraham LincolnHe consolidated the party with study groups and confessions.Mao ZedongHis dining table sank through the floor so he ate alone.Ludwig II of BavariaTwo monks brought silkworm eggs home inside bamboo canes.Justinian ISigned the warrant for her cousin. Then punished the messenger.Elizabeth IThe crowd at his lying in state crushed people to death.Joseph StalinHid her husband's heretics inside her husband's own palace.TheodoraMonks opened his tomb and swore a dragon came out of it.Charles MartelCut the royal kitchen to two peacocks and a deer.AshokaHis bones came home to Sparta forty years afterwards.LeonidasSpent his boyhood as an Ottoman hostage for his father.Vlad the ImpalerA Roman historian called him a bandit of low birth.Arsaces IAt fifteen he inherited, then killed off every rival king.Clovis IHis heir was knouted twice and died in the fortress.Peter the GreatShe waited on sixty-five inoculated children at dinner.Maria TheresaHe chaired the council on orthodoxy while unbaptised.Constantine the GreatFriends took the razors away when he broke his engagement.Abraham LincolnHe consolidated the party with study groups and confessions.Mao ZedongHis dining table sank through the floor so he ate alone.Ludwig II of BavariaTwo monks brought silkworm eggs home inside bamboo canes.Justinian ISigned the warrant for her cousin. Then punished the messenger.Elizabeth IThe crowd at his lying in state crushed people to death.Joseph StalinHid her husband's heretics inside her husband's own palace.Theodora

Wrote against torture, then made serfdom stronger.Catherine the GreatHis will asked that his house be torn down. It still stands.Lee Kuan YewTreasury books show Columbus was paid only after he sailed.Isabella I of CastileOf some fifty inscriptions he left, only one mentions a war.Nebuchadnezzar IILater king lists skip him. They called him the criminal.AkhenatenOffered the crown, he thought for eleven weeks and refused.Oliver CromwellFixed the width between cart axles for a whole empire.Qin Shi HuangA princess sent her ring. He asked Rome for half the West.AttilaHis own guard killed him, then made his uncle emperor.CaligulaA first buyer sent him back over a white spot in one eye.BaibarsHe took the throne at twelve, his mother ruling for him.Kinich Janaab PakalA sanctuary cut so the sun lights it twice each year.Ramses IIHis organs were buried in Hungary, his body in Istanbul.Suleiman the MagnificentA Greek historian wrote he closed every temple in Egypt.KhufuOne verse hands the killing of Goliath to another man.DavidHe was careful never to be seen in his wheelchair in public.Franklin RooseveltWrote against torture, then made serfdom stronger.Catherine the GreatHis will asked that his house be torn down. It still stands.Lee Kuan YewTreasury books show Columbus was paid only after he sailed.Isabella I of CastileOf some fifty inscriptions he left, only one mentions a war.Nebuchadnezzar IILater king lists skip him. They called him the criminal.AkhenatenOffered the crown, he thought for eleven weeks and refused.Oliver CromwellFixed the width between cart axles for a whole empire.Qin Shi HuangA princess sent her ring. He asked Rome for half the West.AttilaHis own guard killed him, then made his uncle emperor.CaligulaA first buyer sent him back over a white spot in one eye.BaibarsHe took the throne at twelve, his mother ruling for him.Kinich Janaab PakalA sanctuary cut so the sun lights it twice each year.Ramses IIHis organs were buried in Hungary, his body in Istanbul.Suleiman the MagnificentA Greek historian wrote he closed every temple in Egypt.KhufuOne verse hands the killing of Goliath to another man.DavidHe was careful never to be seen in his wheelchair in public.Franklin Roosevelt

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Sumerian3500 BC to 2004 BCAkkadian2334 BC to 2154 BCHittite1650 BC to 1180 BCPhrygian1200 BC to 696 BCZhou1046 BC to 256 BCScythian900 BC to 200 BCGaul800 BC to 50 BCThracian700 BC to 46Briton500 BC to 600Mauryan322 BC to 185 BCParthian247 BC to 224Han206 BC to 220Aksumite100 to 940Gupta240 to 550Byzantine330 to 1453Tang618 to 907Andalusi711 to 1492Chola848 to 1279Norman911 to 1204Benin1180 to 1897Delhi1206 to 1526Mamluk1250 to 1517Ottoman1299 to 1922Timurid1370 to 1507