PEOPLE OF HISTORY
Early Civilizations
HAMMURABI – CREATOR OF THE FIRST LAW CODE OF MAN
Persia
ABRAHAM - THE FOUNDER OF JUDAISM
MOSES - RECEIVED TEN COMMANDMENTS AND LED EXODUS FROM EGYPT
ZOROASTER - FOUNDER OF PERSIAN RELIGION WITH A BELIEF IN GOOD AND EVIL
Greece
ZEUS - CHIEF DEITY OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY
HERA - WIFE OF CHIEF GREEK GOD
APOLLO - GREEK GOD OF PROPHECY AND LIGHT
ARTEMIS - GREEK GODDESS OF THE HUNT AND WILDERNESS
ATHENA - GREEK GODDESS OF WISDOM AND ART
APHRODITE - GREEK GODDESS OF BEAUTY AND LOVE
DRACO - WRITER OF EARLY, SEVERE LAW CODE OF GREECE
SOLON - EARLY GREEK LEADER WHO INSTITUTED LAND REFORMS AND DEMOCRACY
PERICLES - GREEK LEADER DURING THE GOLDEN/CLASSICAL AGE OF GREECE
AESCHYLUS - FIRST WRITER OF GREEK TRAGEDIES
SOPHOCLES - GREEK GENERAL DURING PERSIAN WARS WHO LATER WROTE TRAGEDIES
HOMER - GREEK WRITER OF THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY
HERODOTUS - FIRST GREEK HISTORIAN WHO WROTE ABOUT THE PERSIAN WARS
THUCYDIDES - GREEK HISTORIAN WHO WROTE ABOUT THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS
PHIDIAS - GREEK SCULPTOR OF THE PARTHENON
ARCHIMEDES - GREEK MATHEMATICIAN AND INVENTOR WHO INVENTED A SCREW TO LIFT
WATER AND WORKED WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF PI
HIPPOCRATES - GREEK FATHER OF MEDICINE
EUCLID - GREEK MATHEMATICIAN WHO SYSTEMATIZED GEOMETRY
PYTHAGORAS - GREEK MATHEMATICIAN WHO WORKED WITH THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE SIDES OF
A RIGHT TRIANGLE
SOCRATES - FIRST GREEK PHILOSOPHER AND TEACHER OF PLATO
PLATO - GREEK PHILOSOPHER, WRITER OF REPUBLIC, TEACHER OF ARISTOTLE
ARISTOTLE - GREEK PHILOSOPHER, USED SCIENTIFIC METHOD, TAUGHT ALEXANDER
PHILLIP II - MACEDONIAN KING WHO UNITED THE GREEK CITY STATES
ALEXANDER THE GREAT - MACEDONIAN KING WHO CREATED AN EMPIRE WHICH STRETCHED
FROM THE BALKAN PENINSULA TO THE INDUS RIVER VALLEY
Rome
JUPITER - CHIEF DEITY OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY
JUNO - WIFE OF CHIEF ROMAN GOD
DIANA - ROMAN GODDESS OF THE HUNT AND WILDERNESS
VENUS - ROMAN GODDESS OF LOVE AND BEAUTY
MINERVA - ROMAN GODDESS OF WISDOM AND ART
JULIUS CAESAR - ROMAN DICTATOR WHO TOOK CONTROL OF ROME THROUGH CIVIL WAR
AUGUSTUS CAESAR - FIRST ROMAN EMPEROR WHO LED ROME INTO PAX ROMANA
MARC ANTONY - DEFEATED BY THE FIRST ROMAN DICTATOR AT THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM
JESUS - MESSIAH
PAUL - APOSTLE WHO WAS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR EARLY CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
PETER - APOSTLE WHO MOST LIKELY FOUNDED THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN ROME
CONSTANTINE - EMPEROR WHO MOVED THE ROMAN CAPITOL TO BYZANTIUM AND ALLOWED THE
OPEN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY IN ROME
PTOLEMY - ROMAN ASTRONOMER
VIRGIL - ROMAN WRITER OF THE AENEID ABOUT ROMAN HISTORY
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Byzantine
IVAN THE GREAT - RUSSIAN CZAR WHO FREED RUSSIA FROM MONGOLIAN CONTROL
JUSTINIAN - BYZANTINE EMPEROR WHO ENLARGED THE EMPIRE AND CODIFIED BYZANTINE LAW
ST. CYRIL - CREATOR OF ALPHABET USED TO TRANSLATE THE GREEK BIBLE INTO THE SLAVIC
LANGUAGE
Islam
MUHAMMAD - FOUNDER OF ISLAM
ALLAH - ISLAMIC NAME FOR GOD
MANSA MUSA - MALI LEADER WHO SPREAD ISLAM IN WESTERN AFRICA
Classical India/China
BUDDHA - PRINCE SIDHARTHA GAUTAMA FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM
Medieval Europe
CHARLEMAGNE - FIRST HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR WHO STARTED LEADING EUROPE OUT OF THE
DARK AGES
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR - UNITED NORMANDY AND GREAT BRITAIN LEADING TO THE HUNDRED
YEARS WAR
HENRY II - HELPED UNIFY AND CREATE THE NATION STATE OF GREAT BRITAIN
KING JOHN - FORCED TO SIGN MAGNA CARTA LEADING TO LIMITED, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
IN GREAT BRITAIN
JOAN OF ARC - HELPED UNIFY FRANCE IN THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR, DIED A MARTYR
HUGH CAPET - HELPED UNIFY AND CREATE THE NATION STATE OF FRANCE
FERDINAND - SPANISH KING WHO HELPED TO UNIFY AND CREATE THE NATION STATE OF SPAIN
ISABELLA - SPANISH QUEEN WHO HELPED TO UNIFY AND CREATE THE NATION STATE OF SPAIN
POPE URBAN - LEADER WHO’S SPEECH RESULTED IN THE FIRST CRUSADE
MACHIAVELLI - WRITER OF THE PRINCE, “THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS”
LEONARDO DA VINCI - PAINTER OF THE “MONA LISA” AND “THE LAST SUPPER”
MICHELANGELO - ARTIST WHO PAINTED THE SISTINE CHAPEL AND SCULPTED THE STATUE DAVID
PETRARCH - WROTE SONNETS ABOUT GIRLFRIEND IN HUMANIST TRADITION
GUTENBERG - INVENTOR OF MOVABLE TYPE WHICH LED TO THE MASS PRODUCTION OF THE BIBLE
AND THE REFORMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
ERASMUS - WROTE “IN PRAISE OF FOLLY”, SATIRE ABOUT GOVERNMENT AND CHURCH
SIR THOMAS MORE - WRITER OF “UTOPIA” CRITICIZING SOCIETY BY CREATING “THE PERFECT
SOCIETY”
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