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Heir of the Habsburgs, Charles V united Spain, the Low Countries, the Holy Roman Empire and the American conquests, fought the Lutheran Reformation and the Ottomans as champion of universal Catholicism, crushed the Comuneros and abdicated in 1556.
Political axes
Charles V leans further toward religious than 98% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Charles V stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Charles V sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Ideology advocating the political unity of Muslims above national borders, around the ummah and the ideal of a caliphate, formulated by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and adopted by Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II against European colonialism.
Russian geopolitical current that sees Eurasia as a distinct civilization and proposes a Moscow-led continental bloc, with regional autonomy and shared strategic command, against Atlanticism and US hegemony.
Authoritarian nationalist movement that emerged in 1930s Brazil, with a Christian and corporatist base, the motto God, Fatherland and Family, mass aesthetics, and frontal opposition to liberalism and communism.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
King of the Franks and emperor, Charlemagne united military expansion, Christianization, administrative reform, and cultural patronage, becoming a symbol of imperial Christian monarchy and the medieval European order.
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United with León in 1230, Castile expanded across Iberia and later the Americas. The Crown, nobility, and Catholic Church shaped its politics; institutions changed over the nearly five centuries covered here.
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