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190272695sargon of Akkadwas an Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 23rd and 22nd centuries BC.[2] The founder of the Dynasty of Akkad, Sargon reigned from 2270 to 2215 BC (short chronology).[3] He became a prominent member of the royal court of Kish, killing the king and usurping his throne before embarking on the quest to conquer Mesopotamia0
190272696HammurabiAmorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. (p. 34)1
190272697Gilgamesh...2
190272698Abraham...3
190272699David...4
190272700Solomon(Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC), David's son who was a great king. He built massive project in Israel including the Great Temple. His project cost the people a lot of money in taxes causing a division in Israel.5
190272701Nebuchadnezzar(Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)6
190272702Ashurbanipalking of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC), An Assyrian king who told people to bring back writings and collected about 20,000 cuniform tablets were now found form him. Made a huge library in Nineveh7
190272703Moses(Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus8
190272704Menes(3100? BCE) King of Upper Egypt, united the two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt9
190272705AhmosisEgyptian pharaoh c. 1500 BCE, founder of the New Kingdom10
190272706Tuthmosis IIIStepson of Hatshepsut, he lead the military expeditions during her reign. When he became Pharaoh, he enlisted thousands of men to help him capture more land than any other Pharaoh before him. At the time, he ruled the largest empire ever ruled by one king., lived 1479 - 1425 BCE. built an empire including Palestine, Syria, Nubia11
190272707HatshepsutQueen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged. (p.66)12
190272708Harkhuf...13
190272709Akhenatonearly ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC), Formerly named Amenhotep, he was a pharaoh who changed Egyptian religion to revolve around the sun god, and moved the capital.14
190272710King Yu...15
190272711ConfuciusChinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC), chinese philosphere and teacher; his belifs,known as confusoinism greatly influenced chinese life, Chinese philosopher, administrator, and moralist. His social and moral teachings, collected in the Analects , tried to replace former religious observances16
190272712King Yao...17
190272713King Shun...18
190272714Fu Hao...19
190272715Cyrus...20
190272716Cambyses...21
190272717Darius...22
190272718Xerxes...23
190272719Alexander of Macedon...24
190272720Mithradates I...25
190272721Shapur I...26
190272722Zarathustra...27
190272723Mencius...28
190272724Xunzi...29
190272725Laozi...30
190272726Zhuangzi...31
190272727Shang Yang...32
190272728Ban Zhao...33
190272729Han Feizi...34
190272730Qin Shihuangdi...35
190272731Liu Bang...36
190272732Han Wudi...37
190272733Maodun...38
190272734Wang Mang...39
190272735Chandragupta Maurya...40
190272736Kautalya...41
190272737Ashoka...42
190272738Chandra Gupta...43
190272739Samudra Gupta...44
190272740Chandra Gupta II...45
190272741Kanishka...46
190272742Vardhamana Mahavira...47
190272743Siddharta Gautama...48
190272744Socrates...49
190272745Plato...50
190272746Aristotle...51
190272747Philip of Macedon...52
190272748Solon...53
190272749Pericles...54
190272750Seleucus...55
190272751Sappho...56
190272752Arrian...57
190272753Antigonus...58
190272754Ptolemy...59
190272755Aeschylus...60
190272756Sophocles...61
190272757Euripides...62
190272758Aristophanes...63
190272759Julius Caesar...64
190272760Augustus Caesar...65
190272761Marius...66
190272762Sulla...67
190272763Tiberius Gracchus...68
190272764Gaius Gracchus...69
190272765Jesus of Nazareth...70
190272766Paul of Tarsus...71
190272767Tacitus...72
190272768Zhang Qian...73
190272769Nestorius...74
190272770Mani...75
190272771Theodosius...76
190272772St. Augustine...77
190272773Constantine...78
190272774Attila the Hun...79
190272775Alaric...80
190272776Gregory the Wonderworker...81
190272777St. Cyprian...82
190272778Odovacer Justinian...83
190272779Theodora...84
190272780Anna Comnena...85
190272781Belisarius...86
190272782Charlemagne...87
190272783Otto of Saxony...88
190272784Benjamin of Tudela...89
190272785Liudprand of Cremona...90
190272786Leo III...91
190272787St. Basil of Caesarea...92
190272788Prince Vladimir...93
190272789St. Cyril...94
190272790St. Methodius...95
190272791St. Simeon Stylite...96
190272792Muhammad...97
190272793Abu Bakr...98
190272794Khadija...99
190272795Ali...100
190272796Ibn Rushd...101
190272797Al-Ghazali...102
190272798Harun al-Rashid...103
190272799Abu al-Abbas...104
190272800Yang Jian...105
190272801Sui Yangdi...106
190272802Xuanzang...107
190272803Tang Taizong...108
190272804Murasaki Shikibu...109
190272805Zhu Xi...110
190272806An Lushan...111
190272807Huang Chao...112
190272808Song Taizu Harsha...113
190272809Mahmud of Ghazni...114
190272810Harihara...115
190272811Bukka...116
190272812Paramesvara...117
190272813Guru Kabir...118
190272814Shankara...119
190272815Ramanuja...120
190272816Clovis...121
190272817Charlemagne...122
190272818Charles Martel...123
190272819Odovacer...124
190272820Pope Leo III...125
190272821King Otto I of Saxony...126
190272822St. Benedict...127
190272823St. Scholastica...128
190272824Pope Gregory I...129
190272825Tughril Beg...130
190272826Mahmud of Ghazni...131
190272827Chinggis Khan...132
190272828Khwarazm Shah...133
190272829Khubilai Khan...134
190272830Chaghatai...135
190272831Hülegü...136
190272832Ilkhan Ghazan...137
190272833Tamerlane...138
190272834Osman Sundiata...139
190272835Mansa Musa...140
190272836Ibn Battuta...141
190272837Pope Gregory VII...142
190272838Henry IV...143
190272839Hugh Capet...144
190272840Frederick Barbarossa...145
190272841William of Normandy...146
190272842Peter the Hermit...147
190272843Pope Urban II...148
190272844Saladin...149
190272845Robert Guiscard...150
190272846Roger Guiscard...151
190272847St. Francis...152
190272848St. Dominic...153
190272849Eric the Red...154
190272850Leif Ericsson...155
190272851St. Thomas Aquinas...156
190272852Itzcóatl...157
190272853Motecuzoma I...158
190272854Bernal Díaz del Castillo...159
190272855La`amaikahiki...160
190272856Mo`ikeha...161
190272857Motecuzoma II...162
190272858Pachacuti...163
190272859Marco Polo...164
190272860Rabban Sauma...165
190272861Ilkhan Ghazan...166
190272862John of Montecorvino...167
190272863Hongwu...168
190272864Yongle...169
190272865Zheng He...170
190272866Leonardo da Vinci...171
190272867Donatello...172
190272868Michelangelo Buonarotti...173
190272869Giovanni Pico della Mirandola...174
190272870Desiderius Erasmus...175
190272871Francesco Petrarca...176
190272872Christopher Columbus...177
190272873Vasco da Gama...178
190272874Bartholomeu Dias...179
190272875Martin Luther...180
190272876John Calvin...181
190272877Henry VIII...182
190272878St. Ignatius Loyola...183
190272879Philip II...184
190272880Elizabeth I...185
190272881Charles V...186
190272882Francis I...187
190272883Fernando and Isabel...188
190272884Cardinal Richelieu...189
190272885Louis XIV...190
190272886Peter the Great...191
190272887Catherine the Great...192
190272888Nicolaus Copernicus...193
190272889Johannes Kepler...194
190272890Galileo Galilei...195
190272891Isaac Newton...196
190272892John Locke...197
190272893Baron de Montesquieu...198
190272894Voltaire...199
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