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Dictators

Dictatorships across history

Though a few PHARAOHS THE FIRST
notorious names may EMPEROR

spring to mind, there 170 pharaohs ruled Technically the world’s
in Ancient Egypt
are many individuals (approximately). first emperor, Sargon
who have either been The number of years the Great rules Akkad in
Mesopotamia for about 35
the longest-reigning
entrusted with total 90 believed to have ruled. years, during which time
pharaoh, Pepi II, is
he greatly expands its
power, or have taken The age it is thought According to empire via the total
folklore, Sargon
it by force Tutankhamun was when was found as a baby dominance he is
he became Egypt’s
afforded.

9 youngest ruling pharaoh. by a gardener —oating
down a river in a
basket.
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aftermath of the
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The turmoil Germany Russian tsar’s arose in Europe, leading towards World War II.
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finds itself in after
finds itself in after regime and the WWII DEATHS
World War
World War I I subsequent 58%
provides fertile death of Allied civilians
provides fertile
ground for Adolf Vladimir Lenin,
ground for Adolf
Hitler, whose Nazi Joseph Stalin 25%
Hitler, whose Nazi
Party eliminates
Party eliminates ascends to Allied military
all opposition power, purging 13%
all opposition
before turning
before turning his enemies and Axis military
their fire on the
their fire on the developing a cult 4%
rest of Europe.
rest of Europe. of personality. Axis civilians
1933 1924 EARLY 20TH CENTURY
COLD WAR CHAIRMAN MAO FERDINAND
After becoming MARCOS’S REGIME
chairman of the
newly founded While serving as
People’s Republic president of the
of China, Mao Philippines from
1965 to 1986,
rules for 27 years,
7 Cold War. 44 The number of causing millions Marcos’s regime
leaders
becomes infamous
of deaths through
headed
for its corruption,
the USSR
his ‘Great Leap
years the Cold
during the
as well as the
Forward’ and
War lasted.
3,500,000 East Germans fled 45 million people ‘Cultural extent to which
Anywhere
it forbids press
Revolution’
between 18 and
to the West before
freedoms and
policies.
the Berlin Wall
are estimated to have
was built.
died as a result of opposition.
Mao’s ‘Great Leap
1947 1949 Forward’. 1965 1971
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