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| Seized Egypt in 30 BC, winning the War of Actium and unifying the Roman Republic under his rule | Caesar Augustus | 88%
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| Created the Julian Calendar with the help of Sosigenes of Alexandria in 46 BC | Gaius Iulius Caesar | 88%
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| Founded Rome in 753 BC and reigned as it's first king | Romulus | 85%
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| Final Roman Emperor, died to the Ottomans in 1453 AD | Constantine XI | 73%
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| Ended the persecution of Christians in the Edict of Milan in 313 AD | Constantine | 69%
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| Defeated Carthaginian general Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC | Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus | 65%
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| Briefly conquered Mesopotamia from the Parthians in 116 AD | Trajan | 62%
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| Put down Spartacus's slave revolt in 71 BC | Marcus Licinius Crassus | 58%
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| Roman orator and politician, killed at the hands of Marcus Antonius in 43 BC | Marcus Tullius Cicero | 58%
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| Divided Rome into the Tetrarchy before abdicating the throne in 305 AD | Diocletian | 50%
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| Commissioned the Flavian Amphitheatre in the 70's AD | Vespasian | 46%
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| Ordered proscriptions to purge his political rivals after becoming Dictator in 82 BC | Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix | 38%
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| Expelled King Tarquinius Superbus and established the Res Republica in 509 BC | Lucius Junius Brutus | 35%
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| Sacrificed himself in battle against the Italians at Vesuvius in 340 BC | Publius Decius Mus | 35%
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| Ended the Crisis of the Third Century and reunified the Roman Empire in 274 AD | Aurelian | 31%
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| Was consul 5 times in a row; reformed the Roman army | Gaius Marius | 31%
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| Defeated Armenian king Tigranes II at Tigranocerta in 69 BC | Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus | 31%
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| Subjugated the First Bulgarian Empire, conquering up to the Danube by 1018 AD | Basil II | 27%
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| Reconquered much of the Western Roman Empire in the 6th Century AD as a general of Emperor Justinian | Belisarius | 27%
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| Outlawed the veneration of images in his empire in 726 AD | Leo III | 23%
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| Became Dictator, then resigned to his farm after defeating the Aequi in 458 BC | Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus | 23%
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| Reconciled with the Pope and called for a crusader army to reconquer Anatolia in 1095 AD | Alexios I Komnenos | 19%
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| Usurped Emperor Phocas in 610 AD, lost the Levant to the Rashidun Caliphate | Heraclius | 12%
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| Captured by the Seljuq Turks at Manzikert in 1071 AD | Romanos IV Diogenes | 12%
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| Adopted the Sasanian king Khosrow II in 591 AD and initiated the short-lived "perpetual peace" | Maurice | 8%
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| Reclaimed Constantinople from the Latin Empire in 1261 AD, founding the Roman Empire's last dynasty | Michael VIII Palaiologos | 8%
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| Defended the Pons Sublicius against Etruscan king Lars Porsena in 509 BC | Publius Horatius Cocles | 8%
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| Won the Second Macedonian War at the Battle of Cynoscephalae in 197 BC | Titus Quinctius Flamininus | 8%
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