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| 177174114 | Hammurabi (Babylon) | Amorite ruler of Babylon, Babylonian king who united the Babylonian empire and moved the capitol at Babylon. Hammurabi codified first written set of laws | 0 | |
| 177174115 | Asoka (India) | Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India.He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars, the earliest surviving Indian writing. | 1 | |
| 177174116 | Socrates (Greece) | Athenian philosopher who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior. He made enemies in government by revealing the ignorance of others. | 2 | |
| 177174117 | Plato (Greece) | Teacher Socrates and his pupil Aristotle, he is regarded as the initiator of western philosophy. His influential theory of ideas, which makes a distinction between objects of sense perception and the universal ideas or forms of which they are an expression, is formulated in such dialogues as Phaedo, Symposium, and The Republic. | 3 | |
| 177174118 | Aristotle (Greece) | Pupil of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great, and founder of the Peripatetic school at Athens; author of works on logic, ethics, politics, poetics, rhetoric, biology, zoology, and metaphysics. His works influenced Muslim philosophy and science and medieval scholastic philosophy. | 4 | |
| 177174119 | Alexander the Great (Greece) | King of Macedonia in northern Greece. He conquered the Persian Empire, reached the Indus Valley, founded many Greek-style cities, and spread Greek culture across the Middle East. | 5 | |
| 177174120 | Julius Caesar (Rome) | A Roman general and dictator in the first century b.c. In military campaigns to secure Roman rule over the province of Gaul, present-day France, he gained much prestige. The Roman senate, fearing his power, ordered him to disband his army, but Caesar refused, crossed the Rubicon River, returned to Rome with his army, and made himself dictator. On a subsequent campaign in Asia, he reported to the senate. | 6 | |
| 177174121 | Augustus (Rome) | Honorific name of Octavian, founder of the Roman Principate, the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. | 7 | |
| 177174122 | Justinian (Byzantine) | Emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain | 8 | |
| 177174123 | Empress Theodora (Byzantine) | Wife of Emperor Justinian I. Like her husband, she is a saint in the Orthodox Church, commemorated on 14 November. Theodora was perhaps the most influential and powerful woman in the Byzantine Empire's history. | 9 |
