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Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Akbar, the Mughal Emperor of India
Carried out numerous conquests and subjugations of the neighbouring kingdoms and Hindu Rajputs throughout present-day Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, and Bengal. During one of his campaign in a town called Chittorgarh, Akbar allowed his victorious army to massacred the 30,000 inhabitants. He then ordered the heads of all corpses to be displayed upon towers erected throughout the region, in order to demonstrate his authority. Akbar the Great was also known for his behavior of utilizing war elephants to cruelly executed his opponents.

Alexander III, King of Macedonia, Persia, Greece, Egypt, and All of Mesopotamia
Killed a lot of people during his conquest of Persian Empire. Often massacred the whole inhabitants of one city and burned it down to the ground, especially if they refused to surrender. Executed many of his own generals and companions out of paranoia. Possessing a rather strong megalomania, violent temper, and delusion of grandeur to "conquer the known world".

Ælfred of Wessex, King of the Anglo-Saxons
During his campaigns against Viking invaders, he starved many of them into submission. Also forced some Viking chief men to convert into Christianity.

Antiochus III, King of the Seleucid Empire
Over-ambitious king who inherited a disorganized state. Spend most of his reign trying uselessly to recover the outlying provinces of the north and east. Invaded Greece under the facade of "liberating" the Greeks from Roman domination, but ultimately failed.

Catherine II, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias
Catherine, throughout her long reign, took many lovers, often elevating them to high positions for as long as they held her interest, and then pensioning them off with gifts of serfs and large estates. This way, Russian bureaucracy was filled with her favourite men. She took a lot of young lovers, even in the old age. Due to her voracious sexual appetite, there is a myth states that she died when attempting a sexual intercourse with a horse.

Charles I, King of the Franks, King of the Lombards, and Emperor of the Romans
Charlemagne was engaged in almost constant battle throughout his reign, he launched numerous campaigns and conquests throughout Europe, particularly against Saxons, Lombards, Frisians, Avars, etc. He punished to death all pagans who refused to convert to Christianity. Charlemagne is also recorded as having ordered the execution of 4,500 Saxon prisoners, known as the Massacre of Verden.

Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, Emperor of the Roman Empire
Waging many wars against Franks, Goths, Alamanni, Sarmatians, etc, Constantine often let the captured Germanic Kings and their soldiers to be fed to the beasts in amphitheatre. In order to secure his own power and position, he also participated in Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy (306-324 AD) against Maxentius, Licinius, and other rival Augusti/Caesars, which made the Empire weakened even further. Constantine also invaded Sassanid Empire under the façade of protecting Persia’s Christian subjects. Arguably, Constantine only developed an interest in Christianity after witnessing its political usefulness, and as a way to distinguish himself from his pagan rivals.

Cyrus II, King of Kings of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Vastly expanding the Achaemenid Empire by conquests and subjugations of Lydian and Neo-Babylonian Empire, Cyrus was reportedly put to death the leader of rebellions after a succession of torture.

Darius I, King of Kings of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Illegitimately ascended to the Achaemenid throne, Darius met with rebellions throughout his reign in Babylon, Egypt, etc, and quell them each time. He send an expedition to Greece in order to subjugate the Greeks, and to punish Athens and Eretria for their support in Ionian Revolt.

Frederick II, King of Prussia and Prince-Elector of Brandenburg
Premptively invading neutral Saxony, and thus beginning the Seven Years War, Frederick was actively participating in the First Partition of Poland. He sent thousand of German colonists to the newly-acquired Polish territories, hoping that they will eventually replace the Polish settlers. Reportedly, he was referring to the Poles as “uncivilized”, “dirty”, and “vile apes”.

Gustavus II Adolphus Magnus, King of Sweden
Intervened in Thirty Years War for political and economic reasons instead of religious ones, Gustavus let his soldiers to plunder and pillage many towns and villages in Denmark during Kalmar War, and in northern Germany during Thirty Years War.

Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus Augustus, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire
Kiled 30,000 unarmed civilians during the Nika Riots in Constantinople, took advantage of the dynastic struggles in Vandalic Africa and Ostrogothic Italy to re-conquer them (which left Italy devastated and depopulated), and then, by the grand scale of his campaigns, contributed greatly to the Empire’s subsequent decline.

Otto I, Duke of Saxony, King of the Franks, King of the Lombards, and Holy Roman Emperor
Aggressively trying to dominate the Church at the expense of the nobility, Otto banished many of his own dukes, and numerous times invaded France in order to “punish” it.

Peter I Alekseyevich Romanov, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
Over-obsessed with making Russia a naval power, to the point that he brought it into the Great Northern War against Sweden, to gain the Baltic coast. Moreover, Peter also led Russia into a disastrous defeat against Ottoman Empire in Russo-Turkish War of 1710. He ruthlessly ordered torture and execution for thousand of people who rebelled during his “Grand Tour” throughout Europe.

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Politician and Military Commander of the Roman Republic
Sometimes also called as “vulture” who fed from the work of others, in a reference to Pompey’s takeover of the command in the war against Mithridates and Sertorius, as well as his claim to have finished the war against Spartacus. Formed the First Triumvirate with Caesar and Crassus, in an attempt to secretly controlled the affairs of the Roman state, with the background of bribery, civil unrest, and electioneering violence. After the death of Julia and Crassus, Pompey selfishly broke off the relationship with Caesar and thus started the civil war.

Tamerlane, Amir of the Timurid Empire
Brutally conquered Persia in a few years. For example, when Isfahan surrendered to Timur in 1387, he ordered the complete massacre of the city, killing a reported 70,000 citizens. An eye-witness counted more than 28 towers, each constructed of about 1,500 heads. Meanwhile, Timur's campaigns in India were marked by systematic slaughter and other atrocities on a truly massive scale inflicted mainly on the subcontinent's Hindu population. After the sack of Aleppo, Damascus, and Baghdad, Timur was publicly declared an enemy of Islam, as he was no longer killing only non-Muslims. Timur's campaigns sometimes caused large and permanent demographic changes, northern Iraq remained predominantly Assyrian Christian until attacked, looted, plundered and destroyed by Timur leaving its population decimated by systematic mass slaughter. The conquests of Timur are claimed to have caused the deaths of up to 17 million people.

Flavius Theodericus, King of the Ostrogoths
Although he lived at the court of Constantinople for many years and learned a great deal about Roman government and military tactics, treated with favor by the Emperors Leo I and Zeno, and even gained the office of magister militum, and then, consul, Theodoric betrayed the Romans by frequently ravaged the provinces of the Eastern Roman Empire, eventually threatening Constantinople itself. After his victory in Italy, he started the prosecution of the Catholic Christians (since he is an Arian Christian), and even killed the Pope himself. Theodoric's death shortly after these killings was then seen as divine retribution.

Flavius Theodosius Augustus, Emperor of the Roman Empire
[FONT=&quot]In one accident when the population of the city of Thessalonica rioted against the presence of the local Gothic garrison, Theodosius infamously ordered his Gothic troops to kill the inhabitants (which are his fellow Romans). This is known as “Massacre of Thessalonica”, where seven thousand people were slain at the Emperor’s order. Theodosius was also well-known for his persecution of Paganism. He authorized or participated in the destruction of many temples, holy sites, images and objects of piety throughout the Empire, and participated in actions by Christians against major Pagan sites. He issued a comprehensive law that prohibited any Pagan ritual even within the privacy of one's home and was particularly oppressive of Manicheans. He is likely to have suppressed the Ancient Olympic Games, whose last record of celebration is from 393.
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Xerxes I, King of Kings of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Ruthlessly suppressed the rebellions in Egypt and Babylon, Xerxes, however, provoking the Babylonians again by violently confiscating and melting down the golden statue of Bel, the hands of which the rightful king of Babylon had to clasp each New Year's Day. This sacrilege led the Babylonians to rebel again in 484 BC and 482 BC. Mustering an enormous army and navy to conquer Greek mainland, but ultimately failed after the defeats at Salamis and Plataea, although he briefly conquered Boeotia and Attica, as well as burned some Greek cities, including Athens, to the ground.

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So, the most evil of all?

EDIT: Damn, twisted poll question. :mad:
It's actually meant to be "The Most Evil of All? (keep in mind that this is a multiple-choice poll, and therefore you're allowed to vote for more than one".
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