Ruler who subdued Sumer, unified the Mesopotamian city-states, and influenced trade from Ethiopia to the Indus Valley.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
100
Powerful New Kingdom pharaoh who co-ruled with Thutmose III for 20 years and portrayed herself in statue form as a male with a beard.
Who is Hapshepsut?
100
Old Kingdom pharaoh for whom the Great Pyramid at Giza was built.
Who is Khufu?
100
Known as the “Father of History” for his history of the Persian Wars.
Who is Herodotus?
100
Athenian politician who occupied the office of strategos for thirty years and presided over the rebuilding of Athens after the Persian invasion and launched the Athenian empire.
Who is Pericles?
200
The “wild-man” friend of Gilgamesh who was killed by the goddess Inanna for mocking her.
Who is Enkidu?
200
Author of highly personal erotic poetry in the Greek Archaic period.
Who is Sappho?
200
Pharaoh of the Third Dynasty, he was buried in the first step pyramid.
Who is Djoser?
200
Athenian playwright who set most of his tragedies in the mythical past, like Agamemnon in the Oresteia, to make a contemporary point about the rational application of law in fifth-century Athens.
Who is Aeschylus?
200
Macedonian king who reorganized his army and dominated the Greek city-states with the intention of invading and defeating Persia.
Who is Philip II?
300
Founded a new dynasty in Ur around 2100 B.C.E. and commissioned the building of the great ziggurat of that city.
Who is Ur-Nammu?
300
According to Plato’s Symposium, she was the person who taught Socrates the meaning of love.
Who is Diotima?
300
New Kingdom pharaoh who fought the Hittites to a standstill at Kadesh in 1275 B.C.E. and signed a peace treaty to allow peaceful coexistence in the Ancient Near East.
Who is Ramses II?
300
The first Greek sculptor to sculpt a female nude.
Who is Praxiteles?
300
Athenian aristocrat who was elected archon in 594 B.C.E. and enacted a series of political and economic reforms that became the foundation of Athenian democracy.
Who is Solon?
400
Following in the footsteps of his father, Ur-Nammu, he expanded Ur’s power in military conquests, commerce, tribute, and governmental functions.
Who is Shulgi?
400
High priestess of Uruk and Ur she wrote hymns to honor Ishtar/Inanna.
Who is Enheduanna?
400
Religious revolutionary who tried to limit the power of the priests of Amon at Thebes.
Who is Akhenaten?
400
Hellenistic geographer who accurately calculated the earth’s circumference to within 200 miles.
Who is Eratosthenes?
400
Athenian political reformer who set his city on a democratic path by strengthening the power of the Assembly and instituting the tyranny preventative of ostracism.
Who is Cleisthenes?
500
Akkadian ruler who extended the empire of his grandfather, Sargon, through conquest and commercial activity which resulted in larger and more prosperous cities.
Who is Naram-Sin?
500
Wife of Menkaure, she is shown in statuary to be the pharaoh’s ruling partner.
Who is Khamerernebty?
500
Pharaoh who drove out the Hyksos ending the Second Intermediate Period and initiating the New Kingdom in Egyptian history.
Who is Ahmose?
500
Hellenistic anatomist who practiced human dissection and deduced that the brain was the seat of human intelligence.
Who is Herophilus of Chalcedon?
500
Athenian politician who repeatedly warned his city against the growing threat of Macedonian military power in the north.