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Dictators

ANCIENT GREEK TYRANNIES JULIUS CAESAR MURDERED GENGHIS

In Ancient Greece, regimes controlled by rulers Caesar’s popularity is such that he has declared KHAN’S RISE
who had either seized power unconstitutionally himself dictator for life. This consolidation
or inherited it are known as tyrannies. Some of of power earns him enemies, and he is TO POWER
the best known include Cypselus at Corinth and assassinated in the Senate by a group of Around this time,
Orthagoras at Sicyon. conspirators led by Brutus. Genghis Khan
becomes the sole ruler
of the Mongols. When
Julius Caesar he dies in 1227, he will
also fathered a son
with another renowned have established the
dictator: Cleopatra. largest land empire the
He was named world had ever seen.
Caesarion.
C. 600 BCE 44 BCE 1206

NAPOLEON BECOMES OLIVER CROMWELL THE FIRST OF
CONSUL FOR LIFE After the THE SHOGUNS

In much the execution of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Charles I,
same manner Cromwell becomes the first
as Julius Caesar becomes part of shogun (military
had centuries the ruling ‘Rump governor) of the
before him, Parliament’, Tokugawa period, during
Napoleon rises before being which he will rid
from being a given the title of The Japan of
military leader to the dominant ruler lord protector last member instability
of his nation, taking on an almost of England of the Tokugawa via his
god-like persona. As emperor of the during its brief Shogunate was almost total
French, Napoleon would build an period without Tokugawa Yoshinobu, control of
whose rule ended on
empire that ruled over continental a monarchy. 19 November the military
Europe before its collapse in 1815. 1867. and trade.
1799 1649 1603

IDI AMIN CHILEAN SADDAM TOPPLED

During his military MILITARY By the time Saddam Hussein is ejected
dictatorship of from power on 9 April, he has ruled Iraq as
Uganda, Idi Amin DICTATORSHIP president since 1979, although he has been
shocks the After the US-assisted the de facto head
world by seizing overthrow of the of the country
power. He rules democratically elected for several years
with an iron government, a military prior. During
fist, dismantling junta headed by his presidency,
parliament, Augusto Pinochet he oversaw the
introducing presides over a First Gulf War
secret police repressive regime in and instigated
and executing Chile, with thousands an extremely
thousands at exiled or killed. oppressive
whim. regime.

1971 1973 2003

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