| A | B |
|---|
| Hammurabi | Created the world's 1st Law Code |
| Sargon of Akkad | 1st Emperor |
| Abraham | Father of monotheistic faiths |
| Jacob | also known as "Israel" |
| Nebuchadnezzar | Enslaved Jews during the Exile |
| Moses | Led the Hebrew Exodus |
| Cyrus | Known as the 'tolerant' ruler of Persia |
| Cambysus | Persian ruler who took over Egypt |
| Darius | Introduced Imperial Bureaucracy to Persia |
| Xerxes | Failed to defeat Greeks at Battle of Marathon |
| Zoroaster | Persian prophet who introduced idea of Heaven/Hell |
| David | Established Jewish capital of Jerusalem |
| Saul | Pushed Canaanites out of Canaan |
| Solomon | Built Jerusalem's 1st Temple |
| Deborah | Most famous of the Hebrew Judges |
