He rebuilt the Andes into an orderly machine and made the world climb with him.
Rank - 159
He conquered the Andes with mathematics, sunlight, and an unreasonable sense of direction.
Rank - 160
Stefan Dušan rode through the Balkan smoke like a man convinced the world was one good conquest away from making sense, leaving empires, enemies, and common sense trampled under his horse’s hooves.
Rank - 165
Vlad III Țepeș turned a bleeding borderland into a kingdom defended by terror, crafting a legacy where strategy and brutality became the same blade.
Rank - 168
Sonni Ali was the ruthless 15th-century warlord-king of Songhai who carved an empire out of West Africa with cavalry, river fleets, and a famously uncompromising taste for conquest.
Rank - 177
Blind, defiant, and tethered to his men by reins, John of Bohemia spurred his horse straight into the storm of arrows—because dying blind in battle still beat living to see chivalry die.
Rank - 182
A teenage peasant turned holy warlord, Joan of Arc burned her way from battlefield glory to martyrdom and sainthood.
Rank - 186
The Burgundian Ordonnance Companies marched like a machine built from pride and gunpowder, only to shatter spectacularly when the future came at them with Swiss pikes and winter steel.
Group Rank - 191
The Solomonic Knights fought for seven centuries with blades, faith, and terrifying resolve, carving Ethiopia’s destiny into the highlands one battlefield at a time.
Group Rank - 199
The Teutonic Knights were a medieval military order that fused monastic discipline with state-building warfare, conquering and ruling large parts of the Baltic through crusade, colonization, and fortified power.
Group Rank - 182