THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WORLD LEADERS OF ALL TIME

7 Buddha Gotama 7 name Siddhattha (Siddhārtha in Sanskrit), which means “one whose aim is accomplished.” Gotama is said to have ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 path leading to vision, knowledge, calmness, awakening, and nirvana. This ...

7 Confucius 7 his ideas have influenced the civilization of East Asia and some other parts of the surrounding area. Confucius’s ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Confucius was only three years old. Instructed by his mother early in lif ...

7 Confucius 7 (junzi), a process that involved constant self-improve- ment and continuous social interaction. Although he emphat ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 BCE, at the age of 73. According to the Records of the Historian, 72 of h ...

7 Alexander the Great 7 the outset Alexander seems to have envisaged an unlim- ited operation. He confronted his first Persian a ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Alexander’s domain since the Battle of Issus) and cede all his lands west ...

7 Alexander the Great 7 Persian notables, after which he continued eastward. Meanwhile, Alexander ruthlessly quashed real or ima ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Alexander had advanced to the Hyphasis (probably the modern Beas) River w ...

7 Alexander the Great 7 and emotional instability. The cities perforce complied, but often ironically: The Spartan decree read, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 compound—now known as the Qin tomb, located near the modern city of Xi’an ...

7 Shihuangdi 7 and divided the country into 36 military districts, each with its own military and civil administrator. He also i ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Julius Caesar, marble bust; in the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Alinari/Art ...

7 Julius Caesar 7 went to Rhodes to study oratory under a famous professor Molon. En route he was captured by pirates (one of th ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 The crisis of Caesar’s Gallic war came in 52, when Vercingetorix, the chi ...

7 Julius Caesar 7 to give up his command simultaneously, Caesar led his forces across the Rubicon River, the boundary between hi ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 enemies. “Et tu, Brute” (“You too, Brutus”) was Caesar’s expression of hi ...

7 Cleopatra 7 Cleopatra (b. 70/69 BCE—d. August of 30 BCE, Alexandria) C leopatra VII Thea Philopator was the last ruler of the ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Mark Antony eventually became the heir apparent of Caesar’s authority—or ...