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26 figures
Mansa Musa
Emperor of Mali
Wu Zetian
Empress regnant
Ibn Battuta
Explorer & scholar
Charlemagne
King of the Franks & Emperor
Joan of Arc
Military leader & saint
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Ibn Khaldun
Historian & scholar
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Rumi
Poet & Sufi mystic
Saladin
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Genghis Khan
Founder of the Mongol Empire
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Al-Khwarizmi
Mathematician & astronomer
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Marco Polo
Merchant & explorer
Harald Fairhair
First King of Norway
Sundiata Keita
Founder of the Mali Empire
Baybars
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Kublai Khan
Founder of the Yuan dynasty
Zheng He
Admiral and diplomat
Vlad the Impaler
Voivode of Wallachia
Stephen the Great
Voivode of Moldavia
Casimir III the Great
King of Poland
Thomas Aquinas
Theologian and philosopher
Shota Rustaveli
Poet
Timur
Founder of the Timurid Empire
Skanderbeg
Military leader
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Jan van Eyck
Painter
Askia Muhammad I
Emperor of the Songhai Empire
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Amina of Zazzau
Ruler of Zazzau
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