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Most epic people in history?

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Reply 40

Anayaaa

Original post by Moh.1Ace

Tupac Amaru Shakur

Amen

Reply 41

Anayaaa

Original post by HAnwar

The Prophet Muhammad (SAW)

Ameen.

Reply 42

DKeane

Lenin, Trotsky, Freddie Mercury, Edward Teach(or as you may know him, Blackbeard), Me, Akira Toriyama, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Alexander Fleming, Koch and Pasteur, Friedrich Miescher, Karl Landsteiner to name a few.

Justin Bieber

Caesar. More or less discovered the need for a Roman Empire (well the basic structure of such, even though his heir was the first Emperor).

Reply 45

darcus aernelius

Original post by oligarch

A persons legacy is important. Oliver Cromwell the always overlooked leader helped set in motion the apparatus e.g.. The Navy, that would help the birth of the British Empire an empire which makes Alexander to so called 'greats' own empire look pitiful and was perhaps the greatest empire of all time.

He built the Mary Rose? he defeated the Spanish Armada? lolol.

Reply 46

Merlin98

Hattori Hanzo(1542-1596); The Greatest Ninja who ever lived.

Reply 47

username931319

Living in a Hellenic world. The legacy of Rome was directly inspired by Alexander. The tradition of communal housing, education and academia was promulgated under Alexander. The very exonym definitions of how we identified the world (and how everyone else did) was defined by Alexander. Cities of his survived into our time, some being the most pivotal. The very notion of forms which encapsulate our culture and the socio religious customs of the East are due to Alexander. Cited as the greatest tactician by every great tactician. The architectural makeup of the world is a coagulation of the states that ascended from Alexander, or were directly infused by him (Rome, the Parthian and Sassanid) - people on TSR try to compare him to Alfred the Great. Leeeeeeeeel. If you'd have said Augustus. Genghis Khan. The Sun King. Cyrus. You'd have a tenable point. But really, Alfred the great and post-classical effigy of people from then onwards (with notable exception to Genghis. Perhaps one of the Umayuud caliphs) have no place in the same category.

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Reply 48

username931319

As for my input. I'd say Alexander or Augustus. Perhaps Trajan. Actually I'd also add Khosrau the first seeing as his state and societal and military strategum was directly adopted by the invading Muslim empires.

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Reply 49

moment of truth

Bruce Lee, Genghis Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, Tupac, Aristotle, Plato

Reply 50

username931319

Original post by SirMasterKey

In your opinion. It is a shame that whilst Alexander the Great is more well known than Alfred the Great in this country. The idea of a unified England first originated with Alfred and it was under him and his successors that England as an entity was created. It's impossible to say how the history of this country would have panned out without Alfred and his ideals. Much more relevant than Alexander the Great's conquests.

Patently false. The Arthurian legends denote the idea of a post-roman Briton Kingdom. The feudal states of Angles then Saxons earlier than Alfred under the Iceling in Mercia almost unified a polity to abolish the heptarchy. Not to mention Alfred didn't actually form "England" his son did. Still the concept of a feudal entity denoting geographical suzerainty over what we call England was alien until later. Ergo the feuding with the kingdom of Alba and later Scotland over Saxon Lothian. Not to mention the socio-religuous and traditional systems of our culture is a hellenic formulation. Religion is a Latin rite. Our language is cognate heavy. The idea of an imperium a state not individualised on tribal allegiance. Structural bodies of academia etc. It's a Hellenic world m8.

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Reply 51

NerdyMeg

hitler, who can forget that epic cranky man.

Reply 52

MatureStudent36

Melbourne Johns.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Johns

Reply 53

william walker

John Churchill. He decided the Glorious Revolution and therefore he had a huge role in the creation of the first nation state from which came everything good. He broke the back of the Sun King of France with his victories in the War of Spanish Succession. He build a awesome house. He shagged his way to the top of the Court in Britain to become a general. All in all, it doesn't get much better.

As for the Irish connection. Obviously Arthur Wellesley. As for Michael Collins or Eamon DeValera, just no.

Reply 54

TheHistorian19

Other than the typical 'great-men' answers, id say James I comes to mind - his belief of uniting the Protestant and Catholic faiths is considered (now) as very advanced for his time, along with the fact that he is considered England's most intellectual/academic monarch. Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem is also a very interesting woman - dominated crusader politics and didn't succumb to courtly intrigue, despite her natural disadvantage of being a woman. Doge Dandolo of Venice could be also described as epic - although probably not for the right reason - in terms of age one of the oldest figures in the medieval world, personally led at 90, Venetian fleets to victory at Constantinople, instated significant reforms for Venice, and did so whilst being blind.

Reply 55

Feraligatr

Original post by channies

Justin Bieber

Spoiler

Reply 56

channies

Original post by zhang-liao

Spoiler

Why would you assume that?? :curious:

He is da bomb!!

Reply 57

Feraligatr

Original post by channies

Why would you assume that?? :curious:

He is da bomb!!

Epic?

I think the correct term is wasted :teehee:

winston churchill

Johann Sebastian Bach
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
Leonardo Da Vinci
William Shakespeare
Robert Boyle
James Watt
Adam Smith
Edmund Burke
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
David Hume
Albert Einstein
The Wright Brothers
Winston Churchill
Martin Luther King Jr.
Neil Armstrong

That's just off the top of my head...

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