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Medieval Era
3 figures
Genghis Khan
1162 – 1227
Jan Žižka
1360 – 1424
Sigurd I Magnusson
1090 – 1130
Classical Era
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Ashoka the Great
304 – 232 BCE
Paul of Tarsus
5 – 64/67
Attila the Hun
406 – 453
Early Modern Era
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Hernán Cortés
1485 – 1547
Oliver Cromwell
1599 – 1658
Tokugawa Ieyasu
1543 – 1616
Modern Era
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Michael Jackson
1958 – 2009
Tupac Shakur
1971 – 1996
Hong Xiuquan
1814 – 1864
