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| Pericles | Athenian General whose leadership is credited with beginning the Golden Age |
| Socrates | famous Greek philosopher developed a famous teaching method, was eventually executed for corrupting the young |
| Plato | student of Socrates, wrote "The Republic" a famous political book |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher, student of Plato, established the Lyceum and tutored Alexander the Great |
| Pharaoh | The Title Egyptian leaders took for themselves, meaning "Great house of the King" and was believed to be part God |
| The Aryans | An early group that dominated the Indus River valley established dominance, and our credited with creating the Vedas and contributing to the establishment of the caste system |
| The Phoenicians | civilization of sea-traders on the Mediterranean Coast |
| Abraham | Man who is credited with founding Judaism |
| The Hebrews | The group who founded the first monotheisic religion |
| Moses | Hebrew leader responsible for the 10 commandments |
| Alexander the Great | Greek leader who conquered the Persian Empire |
| Qin Shi Hunagdi | Chinese Emperor who built the Great Wall of China |
| Zoroaster | Persian who created Zoroastrianism |
| Lao Tzu | Author of the "Tao te Ching" and founder of Taoism |
| Confucius | Chinese philosopher who created the philosophy of Confucianism |
| Siddhartha Guatama | founder of buddhism, known as "The Buddha" |
| Asoka the Great | Mauryan Emperor known for spreading Buddhism into Asia after his conversion and establishing hospitals, veterinary clinics, |
| Philip II of Macedon | conquered Greece after Peloponnesian wars, was the father of Alexander the Great |
| Hammurabi | Babylonian emperor who established the hars law code "Eye for an Eye" |
| Cyrus the Great | Persian emperor known for his tolerance of the people he conquered |
| Nubians | Group in African south of Egypt (Upper Nile) that were rivals to the Egyptians and at one point conquered them |
