Zhuge Liang

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chancellor of Shu Han

181 – 234 · 53 years · Chengdu · Asia

Chancellor and strategist of Shu Han, celebrated through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as the epitome of wisdom.

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Contemporaries around the world

Europe

Galen — physician and anatomist, 52 years older

Asia

Cao Cao — warlord of the Three Kingdoms era, 26 years older

The world in their lifetime

c. 200 Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan — aged 19, Americas
220 Fall of the Han and the Three Kingdoms — aged 39, Asia
224 Rise of the Sasanian Empire — aged 43, Middle East
c. 232 Hatepe eruption of Taupō — aged 51, Oceania