Asia
- Ahom Kingdom - Susenphaa (1439–1488)
- Aq Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turkomans) - Uzun Hassan (1435–1478)
- China (Ming Dynasty) - Jingtai Emperor (1449–1457)
- Delhi Sultanate - Bahlul Khan Lodi (1451–1489)
- Japan (Muromachi period)
- Monarch - Emperor Go-Hanazono (1428–1464)
- Shogun (Ashikaga) - Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1449–1473)
- Korea (Joseon Dynasty) - Danjong (1452–1455)
- Ryūkyū Kingdom - Shō Kinpuku (1450–1453)
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“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Incarnate devil in a talking snake,
The central plains of Asia in his garden,
In shaping-time the circle stung awake,
In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)