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1. Who was Hannibal?
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A king of Macedon who would lead his army to victory from the Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush, creating one of the largest empires in history |
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The third 'king of kings' of the Persian empire, born in in 550 BCE |
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A Carthaginian military commander who fought against the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War, widely considered one of the greatest tacticians in history |
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The leader of the Hunnic empire, stretching from Germany to to the Ural River, a fierce enemy of the Roman Empire |
