A | B |
Hammurabi | Wrote strict law code for Babylonians |
Abraham | Founder of Judaism |
Moses | Led Jews out of Egypt during Exodus |
Siddhartha Gautama | Founder of Buddhism |
Asoka | Mauryan King; Spread Buddhism through India |
Shi Huang Di | Connected defensive walls to create the Great Wall of China |
Draco | Strict law code in Athens |
Pericles | Leader of Athens; Direct democracy |
Homer | Blind Poet; Odyssee and Illiad |
Herodotus | "Father of Modern History" |
Thucydides | Wrote firsthand account of Peloponnesian Wars |
Phidias | Sculpted statue of Athena in Parthenon |
Archimedes | Developed lever and pulley |
Hippocrates | School of Medicine; Ethical Oath |
Euclid | "Father of Geometry" |
Pythagoras | Formula to find all sides of a right triangle |
Socrates | Philosopher; put to death for corrupting the youth of Athens |
Plato | Student of Socrates;Wrote The Republic |
Aristotle | Student of Plato; Tutor to Alexander the Great |
Phillip II (Macedonia) | Father of Alexander the Great |
Alexander the Great | Conquered area from Balkan to Indus River; Hellenistic Culture |
Hannibal | Invaded Rome from north with Elephants |
Julius Caesar | 1st Triumvirate;Conquered Gaul;Assassinated March 15 |
Octavian/Augustus Caesar | First Emperor of Rome |
Marc Antony | Rival to Octavian |
Jesus | Founder of Christianity |
Paul | Spread Christianity |
Zeus | King of Greek gods |
Hera | Wife of Zeus, Goddess of marriage |
Apollo | Greek god of music |
Artemis | Greek god of war |
Athena | Greek goddess of wisdom |
Venus | Roman goddess of love |
Jupitor | King of Roman gods |
Constantine | Roman Emperor;moved capita;Edict of Milan |
Ptolemy | Believed Earth was center of universe |
Virgil | Wrote The Aeneid |