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| 272324370 | Menes | First Pharoah of Egypt. United Lower and Upper Egypt. | 0 | |
| 272324371 | Wang Mang | "Socialist Emperor." Attempts to redistribue land to peasents and farmers. | 1 | |
| 272324372 | Chandragupta Maurya | Founder of Mauryan dynasty in India. | 2 | |
| 272324373 | Alexander the Great | Macedonian King. Conquest of Persia. Founded Alexandria in Egypt. Spread Greek culture throughout Asia. Died- 323 CE which marks the begining of the Hellenistic period. | 3 | |
| 272324374 | Lucius Brutus | Founder of Roman Republic. | 4 | |
| 272324375 | Spartacus | Thracian slave and former gladiator who launched a three year slave rebellion in Italy. | 5 | |
| 272324376 | Julius Caesar | Dictator of Rome. Assassinated in 44 BCE by a group of senators. Conquest brought Gaul into the Roman Empire. | 6 | |
| 272324377 | Agustus | Adopted son of Caesar, who became Rome's first emperor. Inaugurated the Pax Romana. | 7 | |
| 272324378 | Ashoka | Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya. "Emperor of all emperors." Rock and Pillar edicts. Mauryan Empire fell after him due to taxation and over expansion. | 8 | |
| 272324379 | Diocletion | Roman emperor who established Tetrarchy (rule of 4). Divided empire into 4 zones, 2 senior and 2 junior emperors. | 9 | |
| 272324380 | Constantine | Rome's first Christian emperor. Founded Constantinople in 330 BCE. Death-bed conversion to Christianity. | 10 | |
| 272324381 | St. Augustine of Hippo | Christian bishop who wrote "The City of God." | 11 | |
| 272324382 | Justinian | Architect of the early Byzantine state; transforms Byzantine empire into a thriving economic hub. | 12 | |
| 272324383 | Basil II | "The Bulgar-Slayer." Conquest of Bulgars. Turns attention to the fact that the Byzantines turned to Eastern Europe as more of Asia began to fall under Muslim Rule. | 13 | |
| 272324384 | Muhammad | Merchant from Mecca who undergoes spiritual conversion. Founder of Islam and the final prophet according to Muslims. | 14 | |
| 272324385 | Harsha | Leader who temporarily united Northern India in the period after the invasion of the White Huns. | 15 | |
| 272324386 | Mahumud of Ghazni | Turkish warrior who conquered Northern India. His successors established the Sultanate of Delhi. | 16 | |
| 272324387 | Clovis | King who united the Franks and whose conversion to Christianity at Reims helped to spread that religion througout Europe. | 17 | |
| 272324388 | Charles Martel | "The Hammer." Frankish King who defeated advancing Muslim army at Tours in 732. | 18 | |
| 272324389 | Charlemagne | King of Franks and father of modern Europe. Presided over the largest empire in Medival Europe. Crowned Emperor of Romans on Christmas by Pope Leo III. Created a quasi-centeralized Empire in Europe. | 19 | |
| 272324390 | Genghis Khan | Great Mongol Khan who conquered China, Persia and part of Russia. Military built on mobility and the accuracy of the Mongol short bow. Remembered as a conquerer not as an administrator. | 20 | |
| 272324391 | Tughril Beg | Leader of the Seljuk Turks. Defeat Abbasid Empire in 1055. | 21 | |
| 272324392 | Kublai Khan | Grandson of Genghis khan. Presided over Mongol Empire and promoted religious toleration. | 22 | |
| 272324393 | Tamerlane | Great Turkish Conquerer. Born near Samakand in Central Asia. | 23 | |
| 272324394 | Thomas Aquinas | Author of the Summa Theologica. Greatest of the Mediveal scholastic philosophers. Reconcile with faith and reason. Work was influenced by Ibn Rushd's commentaries on Aristotle. | 24 | |
| 272324395 | Marco Polo | Venetian traveler who ventures into India and China. Becomes a legend and his story drives a European desire to find a route to Asia and its goods and wonders. | 25 | |
| 272324396 | Rabban Sauman | Mongol born Nestorian Christian who meets with European Leaders in an attempt to form an allince against Islam. | 26 | |
| 272324397 | Ibn Battuta | Muslim qadi who travels to sub-Sahara Africa, Baghdad, and the Sultinate of Delhi. Helps to collect knowledge of the Muslim world and to help to advise Muslim leaders in the dar-al-ism. | 27 |
