Conquerors, Despots, and Empire-Builders: A Military Leaders Quiz

Which legendary general wrote the early military treatise, The Art of War?

Homer

Sun Tzu

Philip II

Julius Caesar

Which Macedonian leader conquered the Persian Empire as well as portions of Egypt and India?

Cyrus the Great

Ivan the Terrible

Alexander the Great

Richard the Lion-Hearted

Which military leader attacked the Roman Empire by transporting his army and a team of elephants from Spain over the Alps and into Italy?

Don Quixote

Kublai Khan

Charles Martel

Hannibal

It is said that when he was born, this founder of the Mongol Empire held in his hand a large clot of blood, thus presaging his future career as a ruthless world conqueror.

Hulagu

Batu Khan

Zhu Di

Genghis Khan

Which emperor and military strategist lamented, "Waterloo will erase the memory of all my victories"?

Alexander I

Napoleon I

Richard II

Ferdinand I

In the 16th century, which sultan extended the Ottoman Empire far into Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East, raising the empire to the height of its power?

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Süleyman I

Osman

Tamerlane

Which two Native American chiefs joined forces to defeat Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

Chief Joseph and Tecumseh

Geronimo and Cochise

Chief Big Foot and Tenskwatawa

Who was known as the "Sword of Allah," and led the military expansion of Islam after the death of its founder, Muhammad?

Abu Bakr

Khalid ibn al-Walid

Husayn

Abd-ar-Rahman III

Which despotic 18th-century ruler and conqueror also wrote political philosophy and corresponded with French philosopher Voltaire?

Frederick the Great

Peter the Great

Catherine the Great

Alfred the Great

Which general in the American Civil War remarked, "It is well that war is so terrible; else we would grow too fond of it."

William Tecumseh Sherman

Ulysses S. Grant

Stonewall Jackson

Robert E. Lee