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2357713816BabylonMajor city in Mesopotamia0
2357713817HammurabiBabylonian king;Set of laws;r.1792-17501
2357714523GilgameshLegendary king of Mesopotamia;City of Uruk2
2357714524HebrewsOriginate w/Abraham;Move to Palestine 1850 BCE;Go to Palestine from Egypt under Moses 1300BCE;Establish kingdom of Israel under Saul3
2359104997Phoeniciansindependent city-states ruled by kings in Israel;dominated mediterranean trade;had their own alphabet4
2359106577HittitesLived in Anatolia;had their own cuneiform writing;1595 BCE conquered Babylonian empire;Between 1450-1200 conquered east Anatolia,Mesopotamia,Syria and Phenicia;1200 BCE fell because of attacks from invaders5
2359107252BantusAfrican people who originally lived in the area of present day Nigeria;around 2000 B.C.E.they began a centuries-long migration that took them to most of sub-Saharan Africa;they were very influential especially linguistically6
2359107253AryansIndo-European migrants who settled in India after 1500 B.C.E.;their union w/indigenous Dravidians formed the basis of Hinduism7
2359109295DravidiansPeople who created the Harrapan society;3000-1500 B.C.E8
2359111831AssyriansSW Asian people who have built an empire that reached it height during the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E.;it was known for a powerful army and well-stuctured state9
2359112827Hyksosinvaders who seized the Nile delta and helped bring and end to the Egyptian Middle Kingdom10
2359131290Cyrus(r.558BCE-530BCE)Started the Persian empire and was the first ruler of the Achaemenid dynasty(558BCE-330BCE)11
2359131291Darius(r.521-486BCE)extended the empire east and west;centralized the government;Cyrus's grandson12
2359135113Alexander the GreatClaimed to be heir to the Achaemenid rulers;conquered Persian empire and more but died before he could set up an administration13
2359135114ParthiansPersian dynasty (247 B.C.E-224 C.E)14
2359136115ZarathustraPersian prophet(ca.sixth century B.C.E.)who founded Zoroastrianism15
2359136693XerxesDarius's successor;harsh ruler16
2359145534Philip IIKing of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC. Father of Alexander the Great and Philip III.17
2359145535SocratesClassical Greek philosopher;searched for truth and justice;method of questioning18
2359146282Platostudent of Socrates;theory of perfection;19
2359146283Aristotlestudent of Plato;projected theory of Forms and Ideas as "artificial"emphasis on senses;finding reasons20
2359155248Gracchi Brothers21
2359157007Julius Caesargeneral and reformer;centralizes gov't and military; redistributes land; assassinated 44 BCE22
2359158518Constantine23
2359160347Theodosius24
2359161578Octavian Augustus25
2359164011Confucius26
2359164012Han Wudi27
2359165565Liu Bang28
2359165566Wang Mang29
2359167804Chandragupta Maurya30
2359168948Magadha31
2359170034Ashoka32
2359172088Chandra Gupta33
2359173961Siddhartha Gautama34
2359173962Mani35
2359174797Edict of Milan36
2359175529Saint Augustine37
2359177488Muhammad38
2359179176Abu Bakar39
2359179177Ali40
2359184736Tang Taizong41
2359184737Samurai42
2359186578Harsha43
2359187502Mahmud of Ghazni44
2359188939Sultanate of Delhi45
2359191292Caesorpapism46
2359191963Justinian+Theodora47
2359191965Franks48
2359193509Carolingians49
2359193510Charlemagne50
2359195130Charles"the hammer"Martel51
2359195904Pope Leo III52
2359197483Louis the Pious53
2359201011St.Cyril54
2359204381St.Methodius55
2359207338Vladimir of Kiev56
2359210212St.Benedict57
2359212152St. Scholacstia58
2359213502Pope Gregory III59
2359214389Saljuq Turks60
2359215369Mongols61
2359217878Ghazvanid Turks62
2359219941Ilkhanate of Persia63
2359220848Tamerlane64
2359220849Osman65
2359223112Genghis Khan66
2359224781Kublai Khan67
2359226928Khanate of Chagatai68
2359231207Sundiata69
2359231208Mansa Musa70
2359231770Otto I71
2359233628Frederick Barbosa72
2359235080Pope Gregory VII73
2359237211Emperor Henry VII74
2359238080Hugh Capet75
2359239050St.Dominic76
2359241096Pope Urban II77
2359242795St.Thomas Aquinas78
2359243824Ibn Battua79
2359243825Zheng He80
2359246677Prince Henry the Navigator81
2359247519Christopher Colombus82
2359248936Vasco de Gama83
2359251438Ferdinand Magellan84
2359251439V.Barbosa85
2359252501James Cook86
2359254118King Henry VIII87
2359255584Peter II88
2359256608Catherine II89
2359256609Issac Newton90
2359258082Galileo91
2359258083Voltaire92
2359259749Deism93
2359259750Martin Luther94
2359261153Pope Leo X95
2359262170John Calvin96
2359267513Philip II of Spain97
2359267514Charles V98
2359268757King Charles I99
2359269370King James II100
2359269371Peter I101
2359270767Adam Smith102
2359271708Johannes Kepler103
2359273294Nicolaus Copernicus104
2359278265John Locke105
2359282692Baron de Montesquieu106
2359283589Hernan Cortes107
2359284594Fransisco Pizarro108
2359285390Queen Nzinga109
2359286015Dona Beatriz110
2359286016Manchus111
2359288436Kangxi112
2359289154Qianlong113
2359290782Daimyo114
2359291448Shogun115
2359292964Jesuit Francis Xavier116
2359293749Matteo Rici117
2359294675Mehmed II118
2359296528Suleyman the Magnificent119
2359297312Shah Ismail120
2359299215Shah Abbas121
2359301619Qizilbash122
2359301620Akbar123
2359303987Aurangzeb124
2359305891Jean-Jacques Rousseau125
2359307131Olympe de Gouges126
2359309447Napoleon Bonaparte127
2359311052Maximilien Robespierre128
2359312082Louis XIV129
2359313966Toussaint L'Overture130
2359314790Simon Bolivar131
2359315597Miguel de Hidalgo132
2359317087Augustin de Iturbide133
2359317088Edmund Burke134
2359319035John Stuart Mill135
2359321086William Wilberforce136
2359322613Mary Wollstonecraft137
2359324911Elizabeth Cady Stanton138
2359325621Alfred Dreyfus139
2359326862Theodor Herzl140
2359328853Otto von Bismark141
2359332064James Watt142
2359332065Henry Ford143
2359333759Robert Owen144
2359334511Karal Marx145
2359335544Friedrich Engles146
2359335545Thomas Malthus147
2359336768Charles Fourier148
2359338571Emiliano Zapata149
2359339398Pancho Villa150
2359341184Guadalupe Hidalgo151
2359342120Mac Donald152
2359343336Louis Riel153
2359345967Porfirio Diaz154
2359346759Sultan Selim III155
2359347970Sultan Mahmud II156
2359349169Tsar Alex II157
2359349803Nicolas II158
2359349804Cixi159
2359351840Mutsuhito160
2359353319Kipling161
2359354288Ram Mohan Roy162
2359355037Charles Darwin163
2359355766Menelik II164
2359355767James Monroe165
2359359847Vladimir Lenin166
2359360741Benito Mussolini167
2359361518Joseph Stalin168
2359362506Mustafa Kama169
2359369451Werner Heisenberg170
2359370732Adolf Hitler171
2359372740Mohandas K.Gandhi172
2359375678Jiang Jieshi173
2359376954Anastacio Somoza174
2359379472Jomo Kenyatta175
2359379473Fidel Castro176
2359382802Jose Carlos Mariategui177
2359386046Augusto Cesar Sandino178
2359388501Lazaro Cardenas179
2443251187Mao Zedong180
2443282151Fidel Castro181
2443290432Nikita Khrushchev182
2443306584Mohammad Ali Jinnah183
2443308005Ho Chi Minh184
2443312450Saddam Hussain185
2443314742Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini186
2443353438Kwame Nkrumeh187

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