Riddle of Ages: Travelling Through History

And my explanation for Lincoln
There once was a man
Who always took the blame.
Civil war
Until he was hand picked
To fill a position of infamy and fame.
President
He held back the Red Sea
With the force of his name
Ended slavery
And from humble beginnings
He came from Illinois(IIRC) and was self-taught
He started the political contest
That ended after the end of his game.
Booth killed him
 
I'll give it to Civ'ed. It's President Truman.

There once was a man
Who always took the blame.

The Buck Stops Here. Maybe not as good of a word choice.
Until he was hand picked
To fill a position of infamy and fame.

Roosevelt was dying, so the Democratic Party knew his vice President would become the next President
He held back the Red Sea
With the force of his name

Communists/Soviet Union (Truman Doctrine)
And from humble beginnings
I was more thinking small town Missouri
He started the political contest
That ended after the end of his game.

The Cold War, and he died before it ended.

Civ'ed, your go.
 
Try to guess who this one is.

Hero of a battle after the war,
The battle was filled with blood and gore.
Only a few hundred of mine was lost,
But almost 2000 was the enemies' cost.
 
King of jesters, master of game,
brutal killer, passed the blame.
Fire and torture, playing a role,
took his own life, mind on the dole.

Note that each of the groups of words between ,s is a hint on itself, and they are in a random order.
 

Yup :D That was quick.

King of jesters
, master of game,
Nero was a man of 'arts', he played in plays, for example, but he also fought as a gladiator in the arena
brutal killer,
Many Romans were killed during his reign.

passed the blame.
After the great fire of Rome, he blamed the Christians.

Fire and torture,
Fire refers to the great fire, torture to his cruel tastes.

playing a role,
He was an actor.
took his own life,
He commited suicide during the civil war (actually, he asked his secretary to kill him).

mind on the dole.
In case you didn't get it yet, he was insane.
 
A kingdom of the south
Rivers flow and mountains high
Salt mines and silver
Glorious Navy

Heretical people, Heretical King
Crusades launched, Crusades Defeated
The Muslims invade
Only to find death in the east
But with the decline they
One day take the land of rivers and salt.
 
Byzantine Empire?
 
Okay...Sicily? Sardinia? Castille? Grenada? Aragon? I believe I know what kingdom it is, but I don't know much about that time period except for a little look over on Wikipedia
 
Nope.

A Church with no Cross
Grave stones not crosses
Man with his hand
Meaning I'm good
A moon and a star
Fleur de lis the heraldic sign
 
France? :twitch:
 
Yes! (Civ'ed guess)
What gave it off?

A kingdom of the south
Well Southern Europe
Rivers flow and mountains high
Its famous for its rapids and mountains
Salt mines and silver
One of the biggest Salt mines in medieval europe (Tuzla) and Silver mines
Glorious Navy
During King Tvrtko I we bought a navy from Venice

Heretical people, Heretical King
They were Bogumil and so was the King (Tvrtko I)
Crusades launched, Crusades Defeated
The pope and Hungarians launched several crusades, all were crushed
The Muslims invade

Ottoman invasion
Only to find death in the east
They lost several times in Eastern Bosnia and Serbia (east of Bosnia)
But with the decline they
Incompetent sons of Tvrtko I
One day take the land of rivers and salt.
1463 they took it

A Church with no Cross
The bogumil church didn't use crosses
Grave stones not crosses
Special grave stones called stećci found only in Bosnia
Man with his hand
Common theme on them
Meaning I'm good
In the bogumil faith it means I'm good, I have not killed anyone my hands aren't bloody
A moon and a star
also a common theme on the stecci
Fleur de lis the heraldic sign
Bosnian lilly on the coat of arms of Bosnia and the Kotromanic dynasty
 
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