Greatest Military Commanders - (Antiquity and Middle Ages

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Hint	Country	Name
Author of "The Art of War", great military theorist	China (Wu)	Sun Tzu
Conqueror of the Middle East, creator of Persian superpower	Persia (Achaemenids)	Cyrus The Great
Conqueror of Thrace and Asia Minor, started the wars against Greek poleis	Persia (Achaemenids)	Darius The Great
Defeated Persian forces on the shores of Marathon (490 BC). Stopped their advance in Greece for 10 years.	Athens	Militiades
Subjugated Greeks to Macedonia. Creator of Macedonian military power	Macedon	Philip of Macedonia
Conqueror of Persian Empire and The East. Started a new period in history of humanity	Macedon	Alexander the Great
Commaned Punic armies in Second Punic War, destroyed the Romans in Cannae (216 BC)	Carthage	Hannibal
Unifier of China, creator of Chinese Empire	China	Qin Shi Huang
Defeated Punic armies under Zama in 202 BC , conqueror of Africa	Roman Republic	Scipio Africanus
Conqueror of Greece, turned Corinth into ashes in 146 BC	Roman Republic	Flamininus
Conqueror of the Gaul, victorious in the civil war, established a dictatorship in Rome	Roman Republic	Julius Caesar
Defeated Mithridates, Spanish tribes and Mediterranean pirates. Killed in Egypt after defeat in Pharsalus	Roman Republic	Gnaeus Pompeius
Roman Emperor, conqueror of Dacia and pushed Roman influence into Mesopotamia	Roman Empire (Principate)	Trajan
Often called "The last of the Romans" Destroyed the Huns on the Catalunian plains in 451 and won many wars against Visigoths and the Franks	Roman Empire (Dominate)	Aetius

Hint	Country	Name
Leader of Hunnic armies, their cavalry spread fear in Europe in the Early Middle Ages	The Huns	Attila
Gladius Romanus, liberated Italy and Northern Africa from the barbarians in attempt to reestablish Roman Rule	Eastern Roman Empire	Belisarius
Conqueror of Syria, intervened in conflicts in the arabic world after death of Muhammad	Islamic Caliphate	Khalid ibn al-walid
Expanded Frankish Empire to the east, establishing margraviates and consolidating Frankish rule over Western Europe	Frankish Empire	Charlemagne
Eastern Roman Emperor, defeated Bulgars in 1018.	Eastern Roman Empire	Basil II
First norman king of England, seized the throne after military intervention and Battle of Hastings in 1066	Normans	William the Conqueror
Creator of the Mongol Empire. Led hordes across whole Asia	Mongol Empire	Genghis Khan
Defeated Teutons on the lake Peipus, preventing their advance into Russia	Novgorod Republic	Alexander Nevsky
Crushed Teutonic forces on the fields of Grunwald, preventing their further advance into Eastern Europe	Poland and Lithuania	Jagiełło
Sultan, defeated crusaders in the Middle East	Ayybuid Dynasty	Saladin
Mongol-originated conqueror of central Asia and Persia	Timurid Empire	Tamerlane
Young woman, who led French armies during the siege of Orleans	France	Joan d'Arc
Proclaimed Shogun, unified Japan under his rule. Founder of Tokyo	Japan	Tokugawa

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