| A | B |
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| William the Conqueror | Led the Normans (invaders from northern France) into England; conquered Angles and Saxons at Battle of Hastings in 1066 |
| Octavian (Augustus Caesar) | 1st Emperor of Rome; established the Roman Empire by a civil service, enhancing laws, creating a common currency, and providing for safe travel and trade |
| Paul the Apostle | Spread Christianity around the Mediterranean, executed by Nero |
| Pericles | extended democracy to include most adult males, rebuilding the Parthenon after the Persian Wars, and supporting Greek Golden Age of Greek culture? |
| Petrarch | Renaissance poet, wrote type of poetry called sonnets |
| pharaoh | an Egyptian ruler |
| Phidias | Greek sculptor |
| Philip II | Father of Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, took over Greece |
| Plato | Greek philosopher, established a school called the Academy, wrote the Republic about an ideal society, and taught Aristotle |
| Pope Urban | Roman Catholic Pope, statted Crusades |
| Ptolemy | Roman scientist, astronomer, believed earth was a center of universe (Ptolemaic system) |
| Pythagoras | Greek mathematician; pythagorean theorem (hypotenuse right trianglE) |
| Qin Shi Haungdi | First emperor of China, built Great Wall, unified China, harsh punishments |
| Siddhartha Gautama/Buddha | the founder of Buddhism |
| Sir Thomas More | Northern Renaissance writer; wrote Utopia about an ideal government, executed by Henry VIII |
