2357713816 | Babylon | Major city in Mesopotamia | 0 | |
2357713817 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king;Set of laws;r.1792-1750 | 1 | |
2357714523 | Gilgamesh | Legendary king of Mesopotamia;City of Uruk | 2 | |
2357714524 | Hebrews | Originate w/Abraham;Move to Palestine 1850 BCE;Go to Palestine from Egypt under Moses 1300BCE;Establish kingdom of Israel under Saul | 3 | |
2359104997 | Phoenicians | independent city-states ruled by kings in Israel;dominated mediterranean trade;had their own alphabet | 4 | |
2359106577 | Hittites | Lived 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 invaders | 5 | |
2359107252 | Bantus | African 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 linguistically | 6 | |
2359107253 | Aryans | Indo-European migrants who settled in India after 1500 B.C.E.;their union w/indigenous Dravidians formed the basis of Hinduism | 7 | |
2359109295 | Dravidians | People who created the Harrapan society;3000-1500 B.C.E | 8 | |
2359111831 | Assyrians | SW 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 state | 9 | |
2359112827 | Hyksos | invaders who seized the Nile delta and helped bring and end to the Egyptian Middle Kingdom | 10 | |
2359131290 | Cyrus | (r.558BCE-530BCE)Started the Persian empire and was the first ruler of the Achaemenid dynasty(558BCE-330BCE) | 11 | |
2359131291 | Darius | (r.521-486BCE)extended the empire east and west;centralized the government;Cyrus's grandson | 12 | |
2359135113 | Alexander the Great | Claimed to be heir to the Achaemenid rulers;conquered Persian empire and more but died before he could set up an administration | 13 | |
2359135114 | Parthians | Persian dynasty (247 B.C.E-224 C.E) | 14 | |
2359136115 | Zarathustra | Persian prophet(ca.sixth century B.C.E.)who founded Zoroastrianism | 15 | |
2359136693 | Xerxes | Darius's successor;harsh ruler | 16 | |
2359145534 | Philip II | King of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC. Father of Alexander the Great and Philip III. | 17 | |
2359145535 | Socrates | Classical Greek philosopher;searched for truth and justice;method of questioning | 18 | |
2359146282 | Plato | student of Socrates;theory of perfection; | 19 | |
2359146283 | Aristotle | student of Plato;projected theory of Forms and Ideas as "artificial"emphasis on senses;finding reasons | 20 | |
2359155248 | Gracchi Brothers | 21 | ||
2359157007 | Julius Caesar | general and reformer;centralizes gov't and military; redistributes land; assassinated 44 BCE | 22 | |
2359158518 | Constantine | 23 | ||
2359160347 | Theodosius | 24 | ||
2359161578 | Octavian Augustus | 25 | ||
2359164011 | Confucius | 26 | ||
2359164012 | Han Wudi | 27 | ||
2359165565 | Liu Bang | 28 | ||
2359165566 | Wang Mang | 29 | ||
2359167804 | Chandragupta Maurya | 30 | ||
2359168948 | Magadha | 31 | ||
2359170034 | Ashoka | 32 | ||
2359172088 | Chandra Gupta | 33 | ||
2359173961 | Siddhartha Gautama | 34 | ||
2359173962 | Mani | 35 | ||
2359174797 | Edict of Milan | 36 | ||
2359175529 | Saint Augustine | 37 | ||
2359177488 | Muhammad | 38 | ||
2359179176 | Abu Bakar | 39 | ||
2359179177 | Ali | 40 | ||
2359184736 | Tang Taizong | 41 | ||
2359184737 | Samurai | 42 | ||
2359186578 | Harsha | 43 | ||
2359187502 | Mahmud of Ghazni | 44 | ||
2359188939 | Sultanate of Delhi | 45 | ||
2359191292 | Caesorpapism | 46 | ||
2359191963 | Justinian+Theodora | 47 | ||
2359191965 | Franks | 48 | ||
2359193509 | Carolingians | 49 | ||
2359193510 | Charlemagne | 50 | ||
2359195130 | Charles"the hammer"Martel | 51 | ||
2359195904 | Pope Leo III | 52 | ||
2359197483 | Louis the Pious | 53 | ||
2359201011 | St.Cyril | 54 | ||
2359204381 | St.Methodius | 55 | ||
2359207338 | Vladimir of Kiev | 56 | ||
2359210212 | St.Benedict | 57 | ||
2359212152 | St. Scholacstia | 58 | ||
2359213502 | Pope Gregory III | 59 | ||
2359214389 | Saljuq Turks | 60 | ||
2359215369 | Mongols | 61 | ||
2359217878 | Ghazvanid Turks | 62 | ||
2359219941 | Ilkhanate of Persia | 63 | ||
2359220848 | Tamerlane | 64 | ||
2359220849 | Osman | 65 | ||
2359223112 | Genghis Khan | 66 | ||
2359224781 | Kublai Khan | 67 | ||
2359226928 | Khanate of Chagatai | 68 | ||
2359231207 | Sundiata | 69 | ||
2359231208 | Mansa Musa | 70 | ||
2359231770 | Otto I | 71 | ||
2359233628 | Frederick Barbosa | 72 | ||
2359235080 | Pope Gregory VII | 73 | ||
2359237211 | Emperor Henry VII | 74 | ||
2359238080 | Hugh Capet | 75 | ||
2359239050 | St.Dominic | 76 | ||
2359241096 | Pope Urban II | 77 | ||
2359242795 | St.Thomas Aquinas | 78 | ||
2359243824 | Ibn Battua | 79 | ||
2359243825 | Zheng He | 80 | ||
2359246677 | Prince Henry the Navigator | 81 | ||
2359247519 | Christopher Colombus | 82 | ||
2359248936 | Vasco de Gama | 83 | ||
2359251438 | Ferdinand Magellan | 84 | ||
2359251439 | V.Barbosa | 85 | ||
2359252501 | James Cook | 86 | ||
2359254118 | King Henry VIII | 87 | ||
2359255584 | Peter II | 88 | ||
2359256608 | Catherine II | 89 | ||
2359256609 | Issac Newton | 90 | ||
2359258082 | Galileo | 91 | ||
2359258083 | Voltaire | 92 | ||
2359259749 | Deism | 93 | ||
2359259750 | Martin Luther | 94 | ||
2359261153 | Pope Leo X | 95 | ||
2359262170 | John Calvin | 96 | ||
2359267513 | Philip II of Spain | 97 | ||
2359267514 | Charles V | 98 | ||
2359268757 | King Charles I | 99 | ||
2359269370 | King James II | 100 | ||
2359269371 | Peter I | 101 | ||
2359270767 | Adam Smith | 102 | ||
2359271708 | Johannes Kepler | 103 | ||
2359273294 | Nicolaus Copernicus | 104 | ||
2359278265 | John Locke | 105 | ||
2359282692 | Baron de Montesquieu | 106 | ||
2359283589 | Hernan Cortes | 107 | ||
2359284594 | Fransisco Pizarro | 108 | ||
2359285390 | Queen Nzinga | 109 | ||
2359286015 | Dona Beatriz | 110 | ||
2359286016 | Manchus | 111 | ||
2359288436 | Kangxi | 112 | ||
2359289154 | Qianlong | 113 | ||
2359290782 | Daimyo | 114 | ||
2359291448 | Shogun | 115 | ||
2359292964 | Jesuit Francis Xavier | 116 | ||
2359293749 | Matteo Rici | 117 | ||
2359294675 | Mehmed II | 118 | ||
2359296528 | Suleyman the Magnificent | 119 | ||
2359297312 | Shah Ismail | 120 | ||
2359299215 | Shah Abbas | 121 | ||
2359301619 | Qizilbash | 122 | ||
2359301620 | Akbar | 123 | ||
2359303987 | Aurangzeb | 124 | ||
2359305891 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 125 | ||
2359307131 | Olympe de Gouges | 126 | ||
2359309447 | Napoleon Bonaparte | 127 | ||
2359311052 | Maximilien Robespierre | 128 | ||
2359312082 | Louis XIV | 129 | ||
2359313966 | Toussaint L'Overture | 130 | ||
2359314790 | Simon Bolivar | 131 | ||
2359315597 | Miguel de Hidalgo | 132 | ||
2359317087 | Augustin de Iturbide | 133 | ||
2359317088 | Edmund Burke | 134 | ||
2359319035 | John Stuart Mill | 135 | ||
2359321086 | William Wilberforce | 136 | ||
2359322613 | Mary Wollstonecraft | 137 | ||
2359324911 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 138 | ||
2359325621 | Alfred Dreyfus | 139 | ||
2359326862 | Theodor Herzl | 140 | ||
2359328853 | Otto von Bismark | 141 | ||
2359332064 | James Watt | 142 | ||
2359332065 | Henry Ford | 143 | ||
2359333759 | Robert Owen | 144 | ||
2359334511 | Karal Marx | 145 | ||
2359335544 | Friedrich Engles | 146 | ||
2359335545 | Thomas Malthus | 147 | ||
2359336768 | Charles Fourier | 148 | ||
2359338571 | Emiliano Zapata | 149 | ||
2359339398 | Pancho Villa | 150 | ||
2359341184 | Guadalupe Hidalgo | 151 | ||
2359342120 | Mac Donald | 152 | ||
2359343336 | Louis Riel | 153 | ||
2359345967 | Porfirio Diaz | 154 | ||
2359346759 | Sultan Selim III | 155 | ||
2359347970 | Sultan Mahmud II | 156 | ||
2359349169 | Tsar Alex II | 157 | ||
2359349803 | Nicolas II | 158 | ||
2359349804 | Cixi | 159 | ||
2359351840 | Mutsuhito | 160 | ||
2359353319 | Kipling | 161 | ||
2359354288 | Ram Mohan Roy | 162 | ||
2359355037 | Charles Darwin | 163 | ||
2359355766 | Menelik II | 164 | ||
2359355767 | James Monroe | 165 | ||
2359359847 | Vladimir Lenin | 166 | ||
2359360741 | Benito Mussolini | 167 | ||
2359361518 | Joseph Stalin | 168 | ||
2359362506 | Mustafa Kama | 169 | ||
2359369451 | Werner Heisenberg | 170 | ||
2359370732 | Adolf Hitler | 171 | ||
2359372740 | Mohandas K.Gandhi | 172 | ||
2359375678 | Jiang Jieshi | 173 | ||
2359376954 | Anastacio Somoza | 174 | ||
2359379472 | Jomo Kenyatta | 175 | ||
2359379473 | Fidel Castro | 176 | ||
2359382802 | Jose Carlos Mariategui | 177 | ||
2359386046 | Augusto Cesar Sandino | 178 | ||
2359388501 | Lazaro Cardenas | 179 | ||
2443251187 | Mao Zedong | 180 | ||
2443282151 | Fidel Castro | 181 | ||
2443290432 | Nikita Khrushchev | 182 | ||
2443306584 | Mohammad Ali Jinnah | 183 | ||
2443308005 | Ho Chi Minh | 184 | ||
2443312450 | Saddam Hussain | 185 | ||
2443314742 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | 186 | ||
2443353438 | Kwame Nkrumeh | 187 |
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