WHI Famous People

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

Pharaoh Title for an Egyptian King

Abraham Monotheism Founder of Judaism

Moses 10 commandments Freed Hebrews from Egypt

Siddhartha Gautama Founded Buddhism

Asoka Mauryan Empire/ Spread Buddhism to East Asia

Emperor Qin Built the Great Wall of China

Draco and Solon Tyrants who worked for reform in Greece

Pericles Golden age of Greece

Aeschylus Drama

Sophocles Drama/philosopher

Homer The Odyssey and Iliad

Herodotus Father of Greek history

Thucydides Historian

Phidias Art /sculpture

Archimedes Science

Hippocrates Medicine/Science

Euclid Geometry

Pythagoros Math

Socrates, Plato , Aristotle Philosophers

Phillip II King of Macedonia

Alexander the Great Spread Greek culture

Hannibal Carthage general who invaded Rome through Alps

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

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

Marc Anthony Defeated by Augustus

Jesus Christianity

Paul Apostle

Constantine Legalized Christianity, moved Romes capital to Constantinople.

Ptolemy Science

Virgil The Aenied

Justinian Law code, Hagias Sophia, reconquered Roman territory.

St. Cyril Cyrillic Alphabet

Muhammad Prophet of Islam

Charlemagne Education, 1st Holy Emperor,

William The Conqueror Conquered England 1066

Henry II Common law

King John Magna Carta

Hugh Capet Established French throne in Paris

Joan of Arc Peasant woman who unites France

Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain and throw out Moors and Jews

Charles V Expands Spain in the Western Hemisphere.

Ivan the Great Throws Mongols out Russia, establishes Moscow.

Pope Urban II Speech to start crusades

Saladin Muslim warrior who took back Jerusalem

Machiavelli The Prince

Leonardo da Vinci Artist

Michelangelo Painter

Petrarch Sonnets

Gutenberg Printing press

Erasmus Praise of Folly

Sir Thomas More UTOPIA