| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Pericles | a well known and powerful respected leader (statesman, he gave important speaches in public (he was an orator) |
| pericles | he was the general of the Athens "golden age" |
| Julius Caesar | a smart general who won many victories for rome. he then became the head of the government at a time when the roman senate still wanted to rule. |
| julius caesar | he was killed by senators, some of whome he thought were his friends |
| julius caesar | when rome became an impire, emperors took his last name as their last name. |
| darius | the great king of persia. he was able to become king after a year of a civil war following the death of someone. |
| darius | he is responsible for the expansion of persia |
| darius | he made a province in western india and expanded persia as far north as macedonia |
| constantine | a roman empire who was most famous for making the new capital "constintanople" |
| constantine | he made christianity the official religion of the roman empire |
| hadrian | a roman empire who ordered the construction of this wall |
| hadrian | he traveled trhough his empire to strengthen its frontiers and encourage learning and architecture |
| romulus agustulus | he was the last of the western roman empires |
| diocletian | roman emperor who was faced with military problems, when that happened he decided to divide the empire between himself in the east and maximian in the west |
| diocletian | he did the last persecution of the christians |
| justinian | byzantine empire who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the persians |
| justinian | he confided roman law |
| justinian | his general regained north africa and spain |
| peter | the leader of the bulgarian resistance against the byzantine empire |
| paul | a jew who was converted to christianity |
| homer | a legendary greek poet who wrote the iliad and the odyssey |
| plato | ancient athenian philosopher. he taught about the ideal life for the ancient greek citizens. |
| plato | ancient athenian philosopher, student of socrates |
| plato | ancient athenian philosopher, teacher of aristotle |
| socrates | ancient athenian philosopher, teacher of plato |
| aristotle | ancient athenian philosopher, student of plato |
| aristotle | ancient athenian philosopher, teacher of alexander the great |
| alexander the great | a famous greek conqueror, whe conquered tehe whole of the near east and egypt. |
| alexander the great | student of aristotle |
| alexander the great | a macedonian king who ruled an empire stretching from greece to india |
| alexander the great | he attacked the persian empire, and won the empire. |
| alexander the great | founder of alexandria |
| virgil | roman poet, author of the epic poem 'aeneid' and others. |
| hammurabi | the most important ruler of the babylonian empire |
| hammurabi | he codified laws of sumer and mesopotamia |
| nebuchadnezzar | powerful king of babylon. he caputred and distroyed jerusalem and exiled the israelites to babylonia |
| sargon | ruled over northern babylonia |
| hannibal | a gerat carthaginian general during the second punic war |
| hannibal | sucessfully invaded italy |
| hannibal | failed to conquer rome |
| hannibal | finally defeated in the battle of zama |
| menes | king of upper egypt united the two kingdoms of upper and lower egypt |
| cleopatra | queen of egypt |
| ramses II | king of egypt who built many monuments |
| hatshepsut | one of the best egyptian queens; great builder and leader |
| muhammad | the last messenger of god to mankind |
| muhammad | often called the "seal of the prophets" |
| muhammad | the founder and cheif prophet of the muslim religion, AKA islam |
| chingghis khan | elected khagan of all mongol tribes |
| chingghis khan | responsible for the conquest of northern kingdoms of china, territories as far west as the abbasid regions |
| confucius | one of the most famous philosopehrs of ancient china. his teachings were about a system of ethics that were very important to china |
| confucius | his teachings were called "confucianism" |
| herodotus | the ancient greek known as the father of history |
| herodotus | his accounts of the wars between the greeks and the persians are the first known examples of historical writing |
| thucydides | ancient greek historian that is famous for his history of the peloponnesian war |
| jesus of nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in bethlehem and active in nazareth |
| jesus of nazareth | his life and sermons form the basis for chritianity |
| st vladimir (vladimir I) | he was the grand prince of kiev |
| st vladimir (vladimir I) | converted to christianity and proceeded to baptize the whole kievin rus |
| mehmet II | AKA muhammad II |
| mehmet II | he was the sultan of the ottoman empire for a short time |
| mehmet II | he was the first ottoman ruler to claim the title of caesar to the roman empire |
| mehmet II | supreme ruler of all the christians |
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