13831641135 | Hammurabi | Babylonian King with first law code | 0 | |
13831641136 | Homo Sapiens | Scientific Name for Humans | 1 | |
13831641137 | Archaeologist | scientist who use radiocarbon dating to study the past | 2 | |
13831641138 | Abraham | founder of the Jewish faith | 3 | |
13831641139 | Moses | Jewish leader who was given 10 Commandments | 4 | |
13831641140 | Sumerians | First Civilization created the wheel, ziggurats, and cuneiform | 5 | |
13831641141 | Asoka | ruler of Mauryan empire who sent missionaries to spread Buddhism into Asia | 6 | |
13831641142 | Siddhartha Guatama | founder of Buddhism | 7 | |
13831641143 | Qin Shi Huangdi | First Emperor of China | 8 | |
13831641144 | Confucius | wrote the Analects and founded Confucianism a Chinese philosophy focused on education and respect | 9 | |
13831641145 | Lao-tze | founder of Daoism focused on harmony with nature and balance | 10 | |
13831641146 | Pericles | leader of Athens who expanded democracy and oversaw golden age after the Persian Wars | 11 | |
13831641147 | Draco | Athenian tyrant with harsh laws | 12 | |
13831641148 | Solon | Athenian tyrant who outlawed debt slavery | 13 | |
13831641149 | Philip II | leader of Macedon who conquered Greeks after Pelopponesian Wars and brought back Monarchy | 14 | |
13831641150 | Alexander the Great | Macedonian general who conquered Persia and spread Hellenistic Culture | 15 | |
13831641151 | Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aeschylsus | Greek playwrights | 16 | |
13831641152 | Thucydides and Herodotus | Greek historians | 17 | |
13831641153 | Socrates | Greek philosopher who questioned citizens | 18 | |
13831641154 | Plato | Greek philospoher who wrote The Republic | 19 | |
13831641155 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher who set up a school in Athens | 20 | |
13831641156 | Homer | blind poet wrote Iliad and Odyssey | 21 | |
13831641157 | Phidias | Greek sculptor | 22 | |
13831641158 | Euclid | Greek mathematician father of geometry | 23 | |
13831641159 | Pythagoras | Greek mathematician with triangle theorem | 24 | |
13831641160 | Hippocrates | Greek father of Medicine | 25 | |
13831641161 | Archimedes | Greek scientist who invented lever pulley and water screw | 26 | |
13831641162 | Zeus/Jupiter | god of the skies | 27 | |
13831641163 | Hera/Juno | goddess of marriage and wife to Zeus | 28 | |
13831641164 | Athena/Minerva | goddess of wisdom | 29 | |
13831641165 | Artemis/Diana | goddess of the moon and the hunt | 30 | |
13831641166 | Apollo | god of the sun | 31 | |
13831641167 | Aphrodite/Venus | goddess of love and beauty | 32 | |
13831641168 | Hannibal | Carthaginian General | 33 | |
13831641169 | Plebeians | Roman poor class | 34 | |
13831641170 | Patricians | Roman wealthy class | 35 | |
13831641171 | Julius Caesar | Roman general who was assassinated for gaining too much power (his death started Civil Wars) | 36 | |
13831641172 | Augustus Caesar | fought Marc Antony to become Rome's first emperor and leader of the Pax Romana | 37 | |
13831641173 | Marc Antony | lost Civil Wars after Julius Caesar's death | 38 | |
13831641174 | Virgil | Roman poet wrote the Aeneid | 39 | |
13831641175 | Ptolemy | Roman scientist who believed in geocentric theory | 40 | |
13831641176 | Constantine | Roman emperor who moved capital to Constantinople and legalized Christianity | 41 | |
13831641177 | Jesus | founder of Christianity believed by Christians to be the son of God | 42 | |
13831641178 | Paul | an Apostle and missionary who spread Christianity | 43 | |
13831641179 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor famous for law code and building Hagia Sophia | 44 | |
13831641180 | Caliph | Islamic Rulers | 45 | |
13831641181 | Caliph Ali | Islamic Ruler whose leadership sparked a division in Islam | 46 | |
13831641182 | Sunni | followers of Islam who wanted election of caliph | 47 | |
13831641183 | Shia | followers of Islam who wanted descendant of Muhammad as Caliph | 48 | |
13831641184 | Muhammad | founder of Islam | 49 | |
13831641185 | Saladin | Muslim leader during the Crusades | 50 | |
13831641186 | Pope Urban II | leader who encouraged Christians to take back the holy land | 51 | |
13831641187 | Ferdinand and Isabella | Spanish rulers who unified country and removed Muslims and Jews from Spain | 52 | |
13831641188 | Ivan III | Czar who kicked out Mongols from Russia | 53 | |
13831641189 | William of Normandy | conquered England and became king after battle of hastings | 54 | |
13831641190 | Charlemagne | crowned Holy Roman Emperor brought order to Western Europe after the fall of Rome | 55 | |
13831641191 | Charles V | Spanish king who expanded empire into the Western Hemisphere (the Americas) | 56 | |
13831641192 | Henry II | English king who is credited with Common Law and Juries | 57 | |
13831641193 | King John | English king who signed Magna Carta | 58 | |
13831641194 | Hugh Capet | first French King; moved capital to Paris | 59 | |
13831641195 | Joan of Arc | French war hero of the 100 Years War | 60 | |
13831641196 | Michelangelo | Renaissance painter famous for Sistine Chapel and statue of David | 61 | |
13831641197 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Renaissance painter famous for Mona Lisa and the Last Supper | 62 | |
13831641198 | Petrarch | Renaissance humanist who wrote love poetry (sonnets) | 63 | |
13831641199 | Gutenberg | invented printing press to spread books and ideas more quickly | 64 | |
13831641200 | Thomas More | Northern humanist famous for writing Utopia | 65 | |
13831641201 | Erasmus | Northern humanist famous for writing Praise of Folly | 66 | |
13831641202 | Machiavelli | Italian political thinker who believed the end justifies the means and wrote about this in his book The Prince | 67 | |
13831641203 | Patriarch | leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church | 68 | |
13831641204 | Pope | leader of the Roman Catholic Church | 69 |
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