Batu Khan rode like a storm with a ledger, calmly calculating the cost of kingdoms as he erased them.
Rank - 157
Bayinnaung rose from minor nobility to command an empire that dominated Burma, Siam, Lan Na, and Laos.
Rank - 158
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
He rose from vengeance to empire, turning tribal blood feuds into the blueprint for a dynasty.
Rank - 161
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
Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts was the ruthless, impeccably dressed Welsh pirate who terrorized the Atlantic before dying in a blaze of cannon fire in 1722.
Rank - 178
The bastard who burned his ships and an empire with them, Hernán Cortés turned ambition into apocalypse and called it salvation.
Rank - 200
The Sea Peoples were not a mystery—they were the knife that cut the Bronze Age’s throat.
Group Rank - 192
They advanced like a single starving organism made of steel, superstition, and the certainty that the world existed only to be taken.
Group Rank - 193
A predator aristocracy on horseback, the Hunnic noble cavalry tore across late antiquity with speed, terror, and precision, unraveling empires before they could even form a shield wall.
Group Rank - 195
