Mongolian general and statesman Kublai Khan was the grandson of Genghis Khan. After conquering China, he founded the country's Yuan Dynasty and became its first emperor.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a military leader who worked with Toussaint L'Ouverture and gave the country of Haiti its name.
Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon I, was emperor of France from 1852 to 1870. His downfall came during the Franco-Prussian War, when his efforts to defeat Otto Von Bismarck ended in his capture.
Kaiser Wilhelm served as emperor of Germany from 1888 until the end of World War I.
Theodosius II was head of the Eastern Roman Empire when it faced invasions led by Attila the Hun. He became the longest-reigning Roman emperor.
Montezuma II was the last of the Aztec emperors, who was defeated by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1520.
Menelik II was king of Shewa and emperor of Ethiopia (1889). He expanded the empire, repelled an Italian invasion, and modernized Ethiopia.
Leopold II was Holy Roman emperor and one of the most capable of the 18th-century reformist rulers known as the “enlightened despots.”
Emperor Haile Selassie I worked to modernize Ethiopia for several decades before famine and political opposition forced him from office in 1974.