Thutmose III who converted ancient Egypt into an empire that lasted almost 500 years compared to Alexander the great empire that collapsed upon his death.
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I'm gonna say Ramses the Great because he probably lost the battle of Kadesh, but told everyone he won anyway and that's baller
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[2.102] I shall make mention of the king who came after these, whose name was Sesostris. He first of all set out with ships of war from the Arabian gulf and subdued those who dwelt by the shores of the Erythraean Sea, until as he sailed he came to a sea which could no further be navigated by reason of shoals. Then secondly, after he had returned to Egypt [...] he took a great army and marched over the continent, subduing every nation which stood in his way. Those of them whom he found valiant and fighting desperately for their freedom, in their lands he set up pillars which told by inscriptions his own name and the name of his country, and how he had subdued them by his power; but as to those of whose cities he obtained possession without fighting or with ease, on their pillars he inscribed words after the same tenor as he did for the nations which had shown themselves courageous, and in addition he drew upon them the hidden parts of a woman, desiring to signify by this that the people were cowards and effeminate.note [2.103] Thus doing he traversed the continent, until at last he passed over to Europe from Asia and subdued the Scythians and also the Thracians. These, I am of opinion, were the furthest people to which the Egyptian army came, for in their country the pillars are found to have been set up, but in the land beyond this they are no longer found. [....] [2.106] The pillars which Sesostris of Egypt set up in the various countries are for the most part no longer to be seen extant; but in Syria Palestine I myself saw them existing with the inscription upon them which I have mentioned and the emblem. Moreover in Ionia there are two figures of this man carved upon rocks, one on the road by which one goes from the land of Ephesus to Phocaea, and the other on the road from Sardes to Smyrna. In each place there is a figure of a man cut in the rock, of four cubits and a span in height, holding in his right hand a spear and in his left a bow and arrows, and the other equipment which he has is similar to this, for it is both Egyptian and Ethiopian: and from the one shoulder to the other across the breast runs an inscription carved in sacred Egyptian characters, saying thus, "This land with my shoulders I won for myself..
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You forgot the greatest of Egypt = SESOSTRIS ...He has the biggest statue according to Herodotus,. no one Can equal his conquest. When Darius decided to make a statue near that of Sesostris, the Egyptian Priest told him to be humble because Sesostris was so wordly known in wordly conquest than no one could equal him... " Maia 66 (3/2014) 500-517 NOTES ON HERODOTUS’ SESOSTRIS (HDT. II 102-110) * Vasileios Liotsakis If one wishes to grasp the character of Egyptian propaganda against the Persianrulers of the country from 525 BC, when the Persians occupied Egypt, on the basisof only one story, one could do no better than to read the legend of Sesostris (Hdt II 102-110). By using this legend the now humbled royal priests of Egypt create amighty ruler who surpasses all the Persian monarchs in every respect"
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Sargon of Akkad won his last battle at like 60 it was unheard of to live to be 40 back then much less a 60 yr old empire conquering cup bearer turned war chief/first true king of nations. Truly he comes from the most humble beginnings and probably did the most with what he had
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History Explained
15 Undefeated Ancient Commanders
Sargon of Akkad
(? - 2279 BC)
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ahmose I
(? - 1525 BC)
Ancient Egypt
Thutmose I
(? - 1493 BC)
Ancient Egypt
Thutmose III
(1481 - 1425 BC)
Ancient Egypt
Seti I
(1323 - 1279 BC)
Ancient Egypt
Ramesses the Great
(1303 - 1213 BC)
Ancient Egypt
Darius the Great
(550 - 486 BC)
Ancient Persia
Epaminondas
(418 - 362 BC)
Ancient Greece
Alexander the Great
(356 - 323 BC)
Ancient Greece
Bai Qi
(332 - 257 BC)
Ancient China
Ashoka the Great
(304 - 232 BC)
Ancient India
Scipio Africanus
(236 - 183 BC)
Ancient Rome
Han Xin
(231 - 196 BC)
Ancient China
Sulla
(138 - 78 BC)
Ancient Rome
Drusus the Elder
(38 - 9 BC)
Ancient Rome
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