First of the Achaemenids. Defeated the Medes and conquered Mesopotamia, the Levant & Egypt.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
100
Although not a Greek, he conquered Persia between 334 and 323 BCE and spread Greek culture in the East.
Who was Alexander the Great?
100
He is best known for his becoming dictator of the republic in 45 BCE after his defeat of his arch-rival, Pompey.
Who was Julius Caesar?
200
Created the first empire by conquering the Sumerian city states in the mid to late third millennium BCE.
Who was Sargon?
200
Unfortunately for him, he was tasked with defending his empire against Alexander's army and was unsuccessful.
Who was Darius III?
200
This great general met his match when he encountered Scipio Africanus at Zama in 202 BCE.
Who was Hannibal?
300
From his capital at Babylon, he conquered Mesopotamia in the second millennium BCE and promoted his law code by inscribing it on basalt stele.
Who was Hammurabi?
300
He was a general and a statesman of the 4th century BCE, who was responsible for leading Thebes to its great defeat of the mighty Spartan army at Leuctra.
Who is Epaminodas?
300
He was a great general and emperor of the 2nd century who extended Rome's territory into Dacia and Mesopotamia.
Who was Trajan?
400
Using a massive standing army of his own creation, his conquests ushered in a century of Assyrian dominance of the Middle East during the 8th century BCE.
Who was Tiglath-Pileser III?
400
Its the term that describes the Greek culture that developed in the wake of Alexander's conquests.
What is Hellenism?
400
Although he and his general, Belisarius, reconquered the western empire, he is best known for his legal code.
Who was Justinian?
500
He was the mythical warrior-king who united Upper and Lower Egypt in the late 4th millennium BCE.
Who was Menes?
500
Among the reasons why Sparta withdrew from this alliance was its mistrust of Athens and its ambitions in the Ionian Sea.
What was the Hellenic League?
500
He was the first barbarian king to sack Rome in 410 BCE.