2007-08-31 20:08:10 · 16 answers · asked by Pramod R 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I feel its ALEXANDER the great..........a very just ruler and know to have given a lot to man-king. As said he was a friend to man-kind, the greatest gift of GOD. He changed the world. He started many of the new civilizes techniques like roads, trees for fresh air, distrubution of alms to the poor. He distroyed the Persian Empire where everyone were treated like slaves.....it not that i want to insult all Mid-Asians just that I feel what he did was right.........
2007-08-31 20:58:27 · answer #1 · answered by ¨°º¤•§îRîu§ ¤[†]¤ ߣã¢K•¤º°¨ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Historically, and thinking with a European mind set, it's hard to beat Louis XIV "the Sun king" of France in the latter half of the 17th century to 1715. Reasons: He was the quintessential absolute monarch. He ruled the richest, most populated, most powerful (militarily) country in Europe at a time when Europeans were soon to eclipse the world stage due to their projection of power in the form of floating batteries of cannons on wooden platforms called ships of the line. The Ottoman empire would decline after the 1683 siege of Vienna. The Mongols were gone from China and the Moguls in India were waning. The French style and language was being imitated throughout Europe to distant Russia. Louis may not have been a "great" person, but he lived a very long time and at just the right time and place in history that the king of France was preeminent.
2007-09-01 04:31:58 · answer #2 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I nominate the Thai king known as Rama V to the Thais. Rama V kept Thailand free in the face of the European powers that colonised all of the rest of South East Asia at that time. The French in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, the British in Burma, Malaysia and Singapore and the Dutch in Indonesia. He was a great man. Thailand is the only country in South East Asia that was never colonised. If you want to know more about this King, see the movie called Anna and the King and read the credits. In there you will find a reference to Anna's book. Hope this helps
2007-09-01 04:58:16 · answer #3 · answered by Doug W 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Elvis.
If you don't count him as a king, then I'd go with King Jean I of France. He died at the age of 5 days (15 Nov-20 Nov 1316)- his mother's pregnant stomach had a crown placed upon it when his father, Louis X, died before his birth. I nominate him because I'm not a big fan of hereditary monarchs, and at least Jean I never executed people on a whim or caused a pointless war. Our president is what happens when leaders are followed by stupid sons, but at least he couldn't last more than 8 years.
(I hate hereditary monarchs so much that I tried to have Friday XIII and Prince Thursday arrested and shot on MR. ROGERS, but he wouldn't do it; something about "sweeps weeks" and budget problems and Friday agreeing to become a constitutional monarch.)
2007-09-01 03:30:30 · answer #4 · answered by Jonathan D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Define great, please. Is it the most liberal, the most just, the one who won more wars, the one who started the longest dynasty, the most feared, the one who lived longest, the one who increased the size of his country, the one who best defended his country, the most approachable and available, you see, the list is long and varied.
I can think of some truly crappy kings, like Richard Plantagenet, known as Richard Lionheart, who never was content to stay home and be a king, but always had to be wandering, and some truly awesome ones, like Alexander the Great. (I know he also roamed too much, but that was what made him great, and anyway, he always won and his country never had to bail him out by paying ransom.)
I guess I would choose Arthur, the once and future king, because he was romantic and strong and fair and honest and tried to live up to his own ideals, which most kings don't, and also because he was mythical.
2007-09-01 04:47:18 · answer #5 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'There were lots of so called 'great Kings' in history, but history books have a 'great' way of telling things how they would like it to have been rather than how is was.
I think the greatest king must have been one of the Georges and I have three in mind. It all depends on how you define 'greatest'.
If you mean greatest as in 'most deserving of a place in History' then I go for George VI, the father of Elizabeth II. He didn't expect to be king, he didn't want to be king, and didn't have the good health to be king. Nevertheless he selflessly led Great Britain through 13 years of warfare and reconciliation, knowing that his example in maintaining the spirit and resolve of the nation and her allies could easily make the difference between victory and defeat.
If you mean greatest as in "wasn't he just the greatest" then I go for George III of Britain, who decided that the bit of America between Mexico and Canada wasn't worth hanging on to.
If you mean greatest as in "aren't I just the greatest" then I have to go for George II of the USA. Most Kings are noteworthy for their arogance but George Bush II is far and away the greatest.
2007-09-01 05:43:26 · answer #6 · answered by Ynot 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
King Harley Race.
Because he had a great crown, he fit the roll as king well and had nice purple tights and a cape.
2007-09-01 03:16:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Solomon, the wisest.
2007-09-02 13:15:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alexander the second,he controlled all Europe from city of St-Petersburg
2007-09-01 05:06:08 · answer #9 · answered by Cossak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its Prithviraj Chauhan. You should better watch the serial in star plus!!! Then you only will come to know
2007-09-02 03:47:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋