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| Pericles | Athenian General whose leadership is credited with beginning the Golden Age |
| Sophocles | Greek dramatist who wrote Oedipus Rex |
| Phidias | sculptor who sculpted the Statue of Athena at the Parthenon |
| Aeschylus | greek tragedian wrote the Oresteia |
| Herodotus | father of histroy wrote the history of the Persian Wars |
| Thucydides | Greek historian wrote a history of the Peloponnesian wars |
| Hippocrates | father of medecine developed a code of conduct for doctors called the "hippocratic oath" |
| Pythagoras | greek mathematician developed the pythagoran theorem (a2 + b2= c2) for right triangles |
| 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 |
| Euclid | wrote "Principles of Geometry" and is considered the father of modern geometry |
| Draco | famous tyrant in Athens who established the first public lawcode |
| Solon | famous tyrant in Athens who worked for the good of the people by freeing those enslaved by debt and allowing more people to be citizens |
| 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 |
| Hannibal | Carthaginian general from 2nd punic war |
| Julius Caesar | talented general and effective leader who became dictator for life after winning a major civil war against Pompey |
| Octavian "Augustus" Caesar | nephew of Julius Caesar, became Rome's first Emperor, effective ruler who increased Rome's power |
| Marc Antony | Lt. of Julius Caesar who was defeated by Octavian in a civil war following Casear's death |
| 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, |
| Patricians | powerful nobility class in Rome (few in number) |
| Plebeians | Commoners in Rome that made up most of the population |
| 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 |
| Cleisthenes | Athenian leader known for establishing democracy in Athens |
| Nubians | Group in African south of Egypt (Upper Nile) that were rivals to the Egyptians and at one point conquered them |
| Archimedes | Greek scientist and mathmatician who developed an accurate estimate of "pi" and developed a system for pumping water |
| Ramses II | most famous Egyptian pharaoh, he b uilt numerous monuments including Abu Simbel to serve as a warning to the Nubians |
| Pompey | Roman Consul and General defeated by Julius Caesar in Rome's Civil War |
