| A | B |
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| Augustus | First Roman emperor; won the civil war following Julius Caesar’s assassination and went on to unify the empire and establish the Pax Romana |
| Julius Caesar | Roman general who became the republic’s dictator in 45 B.C |
| Cleopatra | Ruler of the Egyptian government in Alexandria who backed Caesar in the civil was he waged from 49-25 B.C |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer in the service of Spain who arrived in the Americas in 1492 |
| Constantine | Roman Emperor who founded Constantinople as the new eastern capital of the Roman Empire |
| Diocletian | Roman Emperor who divided the empire in two and oversaw the eastern part |
| Galileo Galilei | Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. His telescopes proved the sun is the center of the solar system |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Italian Renaissance artist, inventor, and scientist |
| Hannibal | General of Carthage who marched his army from Spain to Rome in the Second Punic War |
| Jesus | Religious leader and founder of Christianity |
| Livy | Historian of the Roman Republic who wrote about the struggle between plebeians and patricians of Rome |
| Marco Polo | Italian merchant who traveled to China, where he lived for 17 years, at times serving as diplomat for Kublai Khan |
| Paul | Follower of Jesus who helped spread Christianity throughout the Roman world |
| Peter | One of the 12 apostles of Jesus; Roman Catholics consider him to be the first pope, or bishop of Rome |
| Scipio | Roman general who defeated Hannibal in the Battle of Zama outside Carthage, North Africa, in 202 B.C |
