AP World History People Flashcards

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