AP World: Unit One People Flashcards
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162512726 | King Hammurabi | King of Babylon, expanded on idea of a code of laws | 0 | |
162512727 | Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean king, rebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture | 1 | |
162512728 | King Menes | United Nile river valley (Egypt), built capital at Memphis | 2 | |
162512729 | Queen Hatsheput | First female ruler known in history, ruler of Egypt during New Kingdom | 3 | |
162512730 | Wu Wang | Established Zhou Dynasty | 4 | |
162512731 | Chandragupta Maurya | Unified smaller Aryan kingdoms into a civilization, founding the Mauryan Empire | 5 | |
162512732 | Ashoka Maurya | Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, converted to Buddhism after violent military campaigns | 6 | |
162512733 | Chandra Gupta | Revived India under the Gupta Empire | 7 | |
162512734 | Qin Shihuangdi | First emperor of Qin dynasty, centralized kingdoms from fall of Zhou dynasty | 8 | |
162512735 | Wu Ti | The "Warrior Emperor" of the Han dynasty, enlarged the Empire to central Asia; established university to educate government officials in 124 BC | 9 | |
162512736 | Draco and Solon | Aristocrats who worked to create the democracy in athens and to ensure fair, equal, and open participation | 10 | |
162512737 | Pericles | Lead Athens to be a cultural powerhouse, established a democracy for all adult males | 11 | |
162512738 | Socrates | Greek philosopher, teacher of Plato | 12 | |
162512739 | Plato | Greek philosopher, pupil of Socrates, tutor of Aristotle | 13 | |
162512740 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher, student of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great | 14 | |
162512741 | Homer | Wrote the Iliad and The Odyssey | 15 | |
162512742 | Philip of Macedon | Invaded and conquered Athens, but encouraged Greek culture to flourish | 16 | |
162512743 | Alexander the Great | Philip of Macedon's son, conquered Persia, created largest empire of the time | 17 | |
162512744 | Hannibal | Carthaginian general who nearly kept Rome from winning the Punic Wars | 18 | |
162512745 | Pompey, Crassus, Julius Caesar | First triumvirate | 19 | |
162512746 | Julius Caesar | Pushed Pompey and Crassus out of the picture, assassinated in 44 BC | 20 | |
162512747 | Octavius, Marc Antony, Lepidus | Second triumvirate | 21 | |
162512748 | Octavius | Took the name Augustus Caesar after rising to power | 22 | |
162512749 | Diocletian | Became emperor of Rome, enacted innovations but failed to prevent civil war towards end of Roman Empire | 23 | |
162512750 | Constantine | Ordered the building of a city at the site of the Greek city of Byzantium | 24 | |
162512751 | Attila the Hun | Invaded Germanic tribes who in turn pressed on the Roman Empire | 25 | |
162512752 | Kung Fuzi | Also known as Confucius, wrote the Analects | 26 | |
162512753 | Lao-tzu | Legendary Chinese philosopher who founded Daoism | 27 | |
162512754 | Siddartha Gautama | Also known as Buddha (Enlightened One), founded Buddhism as a young Hindu prince | 28 |