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| Confucius | Chinese wise man who taught people to obey their parents, teachers, and ancestors; and the golden rule - his teachings became a way of life for the Chinese people |
| Tarquin | Rome's last king - he didn't let the plebians vote and was driven out in 509 BC |
| Horatius | the Roman who fought the whole Etruscan army while the bridge across the Tiber was being chopped down - as he swam to shore his bravery was cheered by his enemies |
| Darius | the king of Persia in 500 BC who was beated by the Greeks in the battle of Marathon |
| Pheidippides | a famous Greek runner who carried the news of victory from Marathon in 490 BC to Athens, a distance of 26 miles |
| Xerxes | son of Darius who used a bridge of triremes to cross the strait of Hellespont - he killed Leonidas and the Spartans (with the help of a traitor) at Thermopylae - he was beaten by Themistocles at the Bay of Salamis |
| Bucephalus | the horse of Alexander |
| Leonidas | the Spartan king who defended the pass at Thermopylae - he and his soldiers were killed by the Persians |
| Themistocles | Athenian king who had ships built - the Athenians abandoned the city and escaped on these boats - he beat the Persians in the Bay of Salamis, the last time the Persians tried to attack the Greeks |
| Pericles | a wise and wonderful speaker who inspired other Athenians to do their best |
| Phidas | an Athenian sculptor who made the statue of Athena for the Parthenon (also Zeus, at Olympia) he died in prison for putting a picture of himself and Pericles on Athena's shield |
| Herodotus | the Father of History - he was a friend of Pericles |
| Socrates | Spartan philosopher who taught by asking questions to lead people to find the truth for themselves - he was convicted of not believing in the gods and had to drink hemlock - he wasn't afraid to die because he believed in an afterlife |
| Phillip | he thought of a scheme to be made king of Greece he succeeded, but was killed before he could set out to conquor Persia - he was Alexander's father |
| Alexander | King of Greece and Macedonia he conquored the whole world by 323 BC (when he was 33 years old) |
| Plato | student of Socrates |
| Aristotle | student of Plato, taught Alexander, the greatest teacher - his school books were used for hundreds of years |
| Carthagenians | a unique mixture of Berbers and Phoenicians - they were great sailors but the Romans surprised them by using a crow, eventually they lost the first Punic War |
