Well heres a nice topic for the other side of the world that TW has only vaguely touched upon. Heres my top five:
Ieyasu Matsudaira Tokugawa - Finally united Japan after almost 400 years of civil war and puppet rulers. He was a very great ruler whose dynasty lasted til the 1860's. He died in 1613.
Genghis Khan - If you dont know who this guy is, you dont belong on this forum.
Sun Tzu - Author of the "Art of War" he changed the face of strategy as we know it.
Oda Nobunaga - Famous for his ruthlessness, young Nobunaga also changed the face of Japanese warfare, and put it, to a certain degree, 300 years ahead of its time. He recognized the awesome potential of the European arquebus, and had it first mass produced then upgraded to a much better model, that could actually fire in rain and wouldnt blow up in your hands. His tactics with this awesome weapon were very similar ot those of Napoleon, who wouldnt come into the world of warfare til 300 years later. He also manged to unite most of the prvinces of Japan under his control, temporarily stopping the chaos, til he was tragically assassinated by a disloyal general in the 1570's.
Zhuge Kong-Ming Liang - The Asian equivalent of Leonardo Da Vinci, he was famous for not only being one of the most ingenius, if not THE most, general that ever lived, he also along with his wife Lady Yue Ying, invented some of the most ingenius weapons of war, and actually put them into use. One of the most outstanding of his inventions, was the Chu-Ko-Long, a repeating crossbow, that was bascially the ancient equivalent of a sub-machine gun. Interestingly enough, the Europeans would not come up with this til around 1,250 years after his death, and thier version invented by the ingenius Leonardo Da Vinci, would never see a day of action.
