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Historical Figures and Influential People in History
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Alexander the Great
-356–-323Classical WorldGreece
He conquered half the known world before thirty, then died in a palace at thirty-two with no clear heir and no plan for what happened next.
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Aristotle
-384–-322Classical WorldGreece
He was Plato's student and Alexander the Great's teacher — and the ideas he developed in between shaped how the Western world thought for the next two thousand years.
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Atahualpa
1500–1533Medieval PeriodPER
He had just won a civil war for control of the largest empire in the Americas when a small group of Spanish strangers arrived and captured him at dinner.
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Attila the Hun
406–453Classical WorldHUN
The Roman Empire paid him tribute to stay away — and when they stopped paying, the question was whether anything could stop him.
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