5697301123 | Ahimsa | the Hindu belief in the non-injury of any living creature. | 0 | |
5697310080 | Hippocrates | founder of modern medicine | 1 | |
5697313890 | Nebuchadnezzar | built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon | 2 | |
5697320838 | Pericles | leader of Athens and Delian League from 461-429 BCE | 3 | |
5697329594 | Anthropology | study of human life and culture | 4 | |
5697337049 | Etesian Winds | winds that blew up the Nile River making transportation easy | 5 | |
5697344969 | Jean Frances Champollion | used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian writing | 6 | |
5697352464 | Chung Kuo | the name the Chinese called their land | 7 | |
5697366071 | The Great Wall of China | Built during the Qin Dynasty | 8 | |
5697361231 | Bedouins | Arab tribes of nomadic herders | 9 | |
5697445356 | St. Methodius and St. Cyril | spread Orthodox Christianity northward to Slavic people | 10 | |
5697448800 | Monsoons | seasonal winds | 11 | |
5697452150 | Hadrian | Built fortifications to defend Rome's borders | 12 | |
5697455449 | Augustus | First Roman Emperor | 13 | |
5697458268 | Alaric | Visigoth king who sacked Rome | 14 | |
5697461355 | Twelve Tables | the Code of Roman Laws | 15 | |
5697465846 | Tiberius Gracchus | murdered for his ideas on land reform | 16 | |
5697471294 | Aristophanes | wrote the comedy "The Congress Women" | 17 | |
5697474724 | Euclid | developed geometry into a system; wrote the Elements | 18 | |
5697482000 | Shi Huangdi | harsh ruler who built the Great Wall of China | 19 | |
5697602837 | The Torah | Five books of law of the Hebrews | 20 | |
5697606929 | Herodotus | Father of History; wrote history of the Persian wars | 21 | |
5697613381 | Moksha | state of perfect understanding; Hinduism | 22 | |
5697621381 | Shang Dynasty | dynasty that gave China its most lasting influence | 23 | |
5697646763 | Sargon of Akkad | created the world's first empire when he took control of northern and southern mesopotamia | 24 | |
5697653554 | Hagia Sofia | beautiful cathedral built in Constantinople | 25 | |
5697662546 | dar al-Islam | Muslim Empire | 26 | |
5697662547 | Ramadan | Islamic Holy Month | 27 | |
5697668575 | Heinrich Schliemann | discovered the ruins of Troy | 28 | |
5697673047 | Environmental Degradation | did NOT lead to the decline of Rome | 29 | |
5697844959 | Marduk | god of Babylon | 30 | |
5697844960 | Caligula | insane Julian emperor | 31 | |
5697847807 | The Huns | not a Germanic Tribe | 32 | |
5697856028 | The Battle of Adrianople | showed the Germanic tribes that the Roman legion was not invincible | 33 | |
5697860783 | Marcus Lepidus | member of the Second Triumvirate | 34 | |
5697864351 | Issus | victory for Alexander the Great | 35 | |
5697866983 | Polis | Greek word for city-state | 36 | |
5697870090 | The Battle of Salamis | naval battle where the Athenians defeated the Persians | 37 | |
5697884978 | Sedentary Villages | major feature of the Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East | 38 | |
5697892089 | The Analects | collection of Confucius' teachings | 39 | |
5698120447 | Ramses | last pharaoh to win a major victory over Egypt's enemies | 40 | |
5698128794 | Aryans | established the caste system in India | 41 | |
5698140894 | Siddhartha Gautama | left isolation in his palace in an attempt to find enlightenment | 42 | |
5698146515 | Solomon (Israel's King) | known for following wisdom | 43 | |
5698152006 | Pharaoh Menes | first united upper and lower Egypt | 44 | |
5698168543 | Catal Huyuk | a Neolithic farming village | 45 | |
5698174135 | Confucius | China's greatest philosopher | 46 | |
5698178073 | The Parthenon | temple to honor the goddess Athena located on top of the Acropolis in Athens | 47 | |
5698181978 | Plato | philosopher, describes his ideal government in "The Republic" | 48 | |
5698190076 | Archimedes | calculated the value of pi and explained the principle of levers | 49 | |
5698386298 | Aeschylus | founder of Greek tragedy | 50 | |
5698391985 | Philip of Macedon | defeated the Greeks at Chaeronea | 51 | |
5698395229 | Latins | first settlers of Italy | 52 | |
5698397239 | Tarquin the Proud | harsh Etruscan ruler | 53 | |
5698405455 | Scipio Africanus | Roman general; defeated Hannibal | 54 | |
5698408212 | Diocletian | Roman emperor who split the empire | 55 | |
5698411641 | Marcus Aurelius | last of the good emperors | 56 | |
5698571850 | Romulus Augustulus | last Roman Emperor | 57 | |
5698571851 | Sanskrit | written language of the Aryans | 58 | |
5698575071 | Dravidians | natives of India | 59 | |
5698577284 | Gilgamesh | Sumerian Epic about a great flood | 60 | |
5698579124 | Baghdad | capital of Abbasids | 61 | |
5698582218 | The Analects | writings of Confucius | 62 | |
5698597014 | Islam | submission to the will of god | 63 |
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