Uh...have you seen the leader roster for the first four iterations of Civ? You're not far off, excluding He Who Shall Not Be Named and the fictional one.
Also Cleopatra is not a significant step up from Tutankhamun.
Yes, Firaxis has gotten better from Civ4 onward about taking a more serious approach to history, but they're still an American company immersed in American pop culture and primarily targeting an American audience (and a Chinese audience because yuan
).
That list is part of my roster for my previous civ-based game at my school. If you want to see it, here you go:
1. America - George Washington/Abe Lincoln/Donald Trump
*snip*
2. Rome - Julius Caesar
3. Germany - Adolf Hitler
4. China - Mao Zedong/Xi Jinping
5. England - Elizabeth II
6. Egypt - King Tut/Cleopatra
7. Greece - Alexander the Great
8. Texas - Sam Houston (I live in Texas
*snip*)
9. India - Gandhi
10. Russia - Joseph Stalin/Vladimir Putin
11. France - Napoleon
12. Ethiopia - Haile Selassie (there's a kid with an Ethiopian adopted brother in my grade that's why)
13. Israel - David
14. Vietnam - a kid at my school with Vietnamese ancestry
15. Lebanon - same case as above
16. Morocco - Hassan II (I studied on Morocco in 5th grade for a nation project)
17. Aztecs - Montezuma II (I barely slipped them in because they let me [I really wanted to do Nezalhualcoyotl, but they don't know about him])
18. Inca - Atahualpa (same with Aztecs [but this time they went to Peru so they also knew of Incas], I really wanted to do Pachacuti)
19. Sweden - Gustavus Adolphus
20. Vikings - Thor
21. Japan - Nezuko Kamado/Naruto
22. Byzantines - Justinian (I did my orthodox saint project on him!)
23. Austria - Franz Joseph (one of my former friends loves Austria, he's a capitalist monarchist as well [we are at constant political conflict])
24. Spain - Isabella/Alvaro Soler
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