THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WORLD LEADERS OF ALL TIME

7 Charlemagne 7 Charlemagne’s program for meeting his royal religious responsibilities was formulated in a series of synods made ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 that he was guilty of tyranny and serious personal miscon- duct for suppo ...

7 Charlemagne 7 libraries, and teaching techniques—upon which later cul- tural revivals would be based. The impetus he gave to t ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 William I. Photos.com/Jupiterimages ...

7 William I 7 acceded as a child. His weakness led to a breakdown of authority throughout the duchy: private castles were erecte ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 carefully, first taking steps to secure his duchy and to obtain internati ...

7 William I 7 the country, he introduced the Norman practice of build- ing castles, including the Tower of London. The rebellion ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 the two volumes of the Domesday Book, one of the great- est administrativ ...

7 Urban II 7 Pope Urban II. © Photos.com/Jupiterimages ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 in Europe in the 11th century. In 1079 he went to Rome on a mission for h ...

7 Urban II 7 to the development of the Roman Curia, the administra- tive body of the papacy, and to the gradual formation of the ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 in 1174. From that year until 1186, Saladin zealously pur- sued a goal of ...

7 Saladin 7 city of Jerusalem, holy to both Muslims and Christians alike, surrendered to Saladin’s army after 88 years in the ha ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Mongols, was poisoned by a band of Tatars, another nomadic people, in con ...

7 Chinggis Khan 7 now, China was the main goal. Chinggis Khan first secured his western flank by a tough campaign against the Ta ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 raiding, destroying, and plundering. It was a minister of the khan of the ...

7 Hongwu 7 force and changed his name to Zhu Yuanzhang, rising from the ranks and eventually taking over leadership of the group ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 misery that administrative corruption could engender, and he savagely pun ...

7 Hongwu 7 emperor was less successful with Japan, whose buccaneers ravaged the Chinese coast. Three missions went to Japan, arm ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 surrounded by a ring of English strongholds. On the morning of May 6, Joa ...