201018173 | Akhenaton | New Kingdom pharaoh, tried to revise Egyptian religion | 0 | |
201041557 | Alexander the Great | Macedonian; son and successor of Philip II; conquered Persian Empire prior to his death in 323 BCE | 1 | |
201041558 | Amaterasu | Sun goddess of the Shinto religion | 2 | |
201041559 | Aristophanes | Greek writer of comedies; author of The Frogs | 3 | |
201041560 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher; teacher of Alexander the Great | 4 | |
201041561 | Ashoka | Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya; converted to Buddhism | 5 | |
201041562 | Augustine | Biship of Hippo; influential church father | 6 | |
201041563 | Augustus | Name given to Octavian; first emperor of Rome | 7 | |
201041564 | Benedict of Nursia | Established Benedictine Rule in the 6th century | 8 | |
201041565 | Julius Caesar | Roman general; conquest of Gaul; crossed Rubicon; assassinated in 44 BCE | 9 | |
201076318 | Chandragupta Maurya | Founder of Mauryan dynasty | 10 | |
201076319 | Cicero | Conservative Roman senator; Stoic philosopher | 11 | |
201076320 | Confucius | Also known as Kung Fuzi; author of Analects | 12 | |
201076321 | Constantine | Roman emperor from 312 to 337 CE; converted to Christianity | 13 | |
201076322 | Cyrus | Established Persian empire | 14 | |
201076323 | Devi | Mother goddess within Hinduism; widely spread following collapse of Guptas | 15 | |
201076324 | Diocletian | Roman emperor from 284 to 305 CE | 16 | |
201076325 | Gaius Gracchus | Tribune who, along with his brother Tiberius, attempted land and citizenship reform within the Roman republic; killed on command of the senate | 17 | |
201076326 | Tiberius Gracchus | Along with his brother Gaius, attempted land and citizenship reform within the Roman empire; assassinated by conservatives | 18 | |
201076327 | Hannibal | Carthiginian general during the Second Punic War | 19 | |
201104654 | Harsha | Followed the Guptas; constructed a loose empire in northern India between 616 and 657 CE | 20 | |
201104655 | Horace | Poet who adapted Greek poetic meters to the Latin language; patronized by Augustus | 21 | |
201104656 | Hammurabi | ruler of the Babylonian empire; responsible for codification of law | 22 | |
201104657 | Jesus | Believed by Christians to be the Messiah | 23 | |
201104658 | Kamehameha I | Hawaiian king fought series of wars resulting in unified Hawaiian kingdom by 1810 | 24 | |
201104659 | Kautila | Political adviser to Chandragupta Maurya; one of the authors of Arthashshtra | 25 | |
201104660 | Laozi | Also known as Lao Tsu; major Chinese philosopher in 4th century BCE | 26 | |
201104661 | Liu Bang | Founder of the Han dynasty in 202 BCE | 27 | |
201104662 | Livy | Roman historian who linked empire to traditions of republican past | 28 | |
201104663 | Marius | Roman general who introduced the concept of using paid volunteers in his army rather than civilian conscripts | 29 | |
201104664 | Mencius | Also known as Meng Ko; follower of Confucius; stressed consent of the common people | 30 | |
201104665 | Ovid | Roman poet exiled by Augustus for sensual poetry | 31 | |
201104666 | Paul | One of the first Christian missionaries; wrote several epistles | 32 | |
201104667 | Narmer | First pharaoh of Egyptian Old Kingdom | 33 | |
201104668 | Pericles | Athenian political leader during 5th century BCE; died during early stages of Peloponnesian War | 34 | |
201104669 | Philip II | Ruled Macedon from 359 to 336 BCE | 35 | |
201104670 | Plato | Greek philosopher; ideal forms outside the material world | 36 | |
201104671 | Sargon I | Ruler of city-state of Akkad; established the first empire in Mesopotamian civilization | 37 | |
201104672 | Shi Huangdi | Founder of the brief Qin dynasty in 221 BCE | 38 | |
201106218 | Shiva | Hindu god of destruction and reproduction | 39 | |
201106219 | Skanda Gupta | last of the able rulers of the Gupta dynasty | 40 | |
201106220 | Socrates | Athenian philosopher of the late 5th century BCE; tutor of Plato; condemned to death for corrupting minds of Athenian young | 41 | |
201106221 | Solon | Athenian reformer of the 6th century; established laws that eased burden of debt on farmers | 42 | |
201106222 | Sophocles | Greek writer of tragedies; author of Oedipus Rex | 43 | |
201106223 | Sulla | Conservative Roman military commander during last century BCE; attempted to reinforce powers of the Senate and to undo influence of Marius | 44 | |
201106224 | Trajan | Roman emperor from 101 to 106 CE; expanded Roman empire to its greatest limits | 45 | |
201106225 | Vergil | One of greatest Roman poets during the "Golden Age" of Latin literature; patronized by Augustus; author of Aeneid | 46 | |
201106226 | Vishnu | The Brahman, later Hindu, god of sacrifice | 47 | |
201106227 | Wang Mang | Temporarily overthrew the Han dynasty between 9 and 23 CE | 48 | |
201106228 | Wu | First of the Zhou to be recognized as king, 1122 BCE | 49 | |
201106229 | Yu | Possibly mythical Chinese ruler c. 2070 BCE; revered for the construction of an effective system of flood control along the Yellow River | 50 | |
201106230 | Xunzi | Author of The Art of War | 51 |
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