1. WHI Famous People

2. King Hammurabi Law Code King of Babylon (part of Mesopotamia)
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”

3. Pharaoh
Title for an Egyptian King

4. Abraham
Monotheism
Founder of Judaism

5. Moses
10 commandments
Freed Hebrews from Egypt

6. Siddhartha Gautama
Founded Buddhism

7. Asoka
Mauryan Empire/ Spread Buddhism to East Asia

8. Emperor Qin
Built the Great Wall of China

9. Draco and Solon
Tyrants who worked for reform in Greece

10. Pericles
Golden age of Greece

11. Aeschylus
Drama

12. Sophocles
Drama/philosopher

13. Homer
The Odyssey and Iliad

14. Herodotus
Father of Greek history

15. Thucydides
Historian

16. Phidias
Art /sculpture

17. Archimedes
Science

18. Hippocrates
Medicine/Science

19. Euclid
Geometry

20. Pythagoros
Math

21. Socrates, Plato , Aristotle
Philosophers

22. Phillip II
King of Macedonia

23. Alexander the Great
Spread Greek culture

24. Hannibal
Carthage general who invaded Rome through Alps

25. Julius Caesar
First Triumvirate. Last dictator of Rome. Assassinated by senate

26. Augustus Caesar
Civil War-Defeats Marc Antony. 1st emperor of Rome. Pax Romana

27. Marc Anthony
Defeated by Augustus

28. Jesus
Christianity

29. Paul
Apostle

30. Constantine
Legalized Christianity, moved Romes capital to Constantinople.

31. Ptolemy
Science

32. Virgil
The Aenied

33. Justinian
Law code, Hagias Sophia, reconquered Roman territory.

34. St. Cyril
Cyrillic Alphabet

35. Muhammad
Prophet of Islam

36. Charlemagne
Education, 1st Holy Emperor,

37. William The Conqueror
Conquered England 1066

38. Henry II
Common law

39. King John
Magna Carta

40. Hugh Capet
Established French throne in Paris

41. Joan of Arc
Peasant woman who unites France

42. Ferdinand and Isabella
Unite Spain and throw out Moors and Jews

43. Charles V
Expands Spain in the Western Hemisphere.

44. Ivan the Great
Throws Mongols out Russia, establishes Moscow.

45. Pope Urban II
Speech to start crusades

46. Saladin
Muslim warrior who took back Jerusalem

47. Machiavelli
The Prince

48. Leonardo da Vinci
Artist

49. Michelangelo
Painter

50. Petrarch
Sonnets

51. Gutenberg
Printing press

52. Erasmus
Praise of Folly

53. Sir Thomas More
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