| A | B |
|---|
| Hammurabi | wrote one of the first law codes "eye for an eye" |
| Abraham | founder of Judaism |
| Moses | delivered the Ten Commandments; led his people out of slavery in Egypt |
| Siddhartha Gautama | founder of Buddhism |
| Asoka | spread Buddhism to China through missionaries |
| Qin Shi Huangdi | had Great Wall built |
| Draco | Greek tyrant; harsh law code |
| Solon | Greek tyrant; canceled land debts |
| Pericles | leader during Golden Age of Athens; rebuilt Parthenon after Persian Wars; extended democracy to more people |
| Aeschylus | Greek who wrote Orestia |
| Sophocles | Greek who wrote Oedipus Rex |
| Homer | wrote Iliad and Odyssey |
| Herodotus | "father of history"; wrote about Persian Wars |
| Thucydides | historian who wrote about Peloponnesian Wars |
| Phidias | sculpted Zeus |
| Archimedes | pi; lever and pulley |
| Hippocrates | father of medicine; oath for doctors |
| Euclid | geometry |
| Pythagoras | created theorem for right triangles |
| Socrates | tutored Plato; method for questioning |
| Plato | tutored Aristotle |
| Aristotle | tutored Alexander the Great |
| Phillip II of Macedon | conquered Greece |
| Alexander the Great | conquered Persia |
| Hannibal | leader of Carthage during Punic Wars; elephants, mountains |
| Julius Caesar | dictator of Rome; assassinated by senators |
| Augustus | first emperor of Rome |
| Marc Anthony | member of Second Triumvirate; allied with Cleopatra against Octavian |
| Jesus | founder of Christianity |
| Paul | spread Christianity through Rome |
| Constantine | legalized Christianity in Rome; moved capital; Edict of Milan |
| Virgil | wrote the Aenied |
| Justinian | Byzantine emperor; reconquered Roman territory; law code; Hagia Sophia |
| Cyril | created an alphabet for the Slavs |
| Muhammad | last and greatest prophet according to Muslims |
| Charlemagne | leader of the Franks; crowned by Pope Leo in 800 AD |
| William the Conqueror | leader of the Norman conquest; won Battle of Hastings |
| Henry II | common law |
| King John | forced to sign Magna Carta |
| Hugh Capet | established throne in France |
| Joan of Arc | fought for the French in 100 years war |
| Ferdinand and Isabella | marriage united Spain; tried to expel Muslim Moors and Jews |
| Charles V | Spanish Empire in the Western Hemisphere expanded |
| Ivan the Great | threw off Mongol rule in Russia; centralized power in Moscow |
| Pope Urban | called for the Crusades |
| Saladin | Muslim who helped recapture Jerusalem from the Crusaders |
| Machiavelli | wrote The Prince |
| Leonardo da Vinci | painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper |
| Michelangelo | sculpted David and painted the Sistine Chapel |
| Petrarch | humanism |
| Gutenberg | invented the movable type printing press |
| Erasmus | wrote The Praise of Folly |
| Sir Thomas More | wrote Utopia |
