Ancient World
Hammurabi
Homer
The mythical twins of Rome's founding
Romulus and Remus
The Germanic emperor that unified Europe again for the first time since Rome, a lover of education
Charlemagne
Painter of the Sistine Chapel and sculptor of David
Michelangelo
The man claimed by three world faiths as the one to found MONOTHEISM
Abraham
Presided over the Golden Age of Athens in the Peloponnesian War
Pericles
The "Scourge of Rome" in the Punic Wars...Carthagenian general
Hannibal
The hero guy in the Anglo-Saxon warrior epic
Beowulf
Leonardo da Vinci
Considered a god-king of Egypt
Pharaoh
Gave the first written law code to the Athenians...so harsh that harshness can be described with is name
Draco
General that conquered Gaul, dictator for life, stabbed to death to prevent monarchy
Julius Caesar
The first true king of a unified England
Alfred the Great
Father of Humanism, sonnets to Laura, studied Latin
Petrarch
King of Babylon...conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and began the Jewish diaspora
Nebuchadnezzar
Famous for creating a triangle theorem
Pythagoras
The first Emperor of Rome
Octavian, Augustus Caesar
This Viking-Frenchman conquered England in 1066
William, Duke of Normandy
Wrote plays in English
The Law-giver of the Jews. Credited with writing the Torah..."let my people go."
Moses
The great SPA Athenian philosophers of Ancient Athens
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
This man legalized Christianity and moved the Roman capital to the East
Constantine
The Islamic general of the 2nd and 3rd Crusades...beat the Europeans
Saladin
Wrote the Prince, gives his name to underhanded real political state-craft
Machiavelli