PEOPLE
CARTHINGIAN MILITARY GENIUS OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR. WINS AT CANNAE. LOSES AT ZAMA
HANNIBAL
EGYPTIANS VERSUS HITTITES. FIRST BATTLE IN HISTORY WITH RECORDED DETAILS OF THE COMBAT
KHADESH
PERSIAN KING WHO INVADES GREECE IN THE SECOND PERSIAN WAR. STOPPED AT THERMOPALYE. DEFEATED AT SALAMIS AND PLATEA
XERSES
CITY PORT IN EGYPT. HOME OF A FAMOUS LIBRARY AND AN ANCIENT WONDER-LIGHTHOUSE AT PHAROS
ALEXANDRIA
"THE HAMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
CHARLES MARTEL
RUSSIAN CZAR KNOWN FOR HIS CRUELTY. JOSEPH STALIN'S HERO. HE'S AWESOME-
IVAN THE TERRIBLE
"DOUBLE ENVELOPMENT"
BATTLE OF CANAE
REALLY SICK PUPPY ROMAN EMPEROR. KNOWN AS "LITTLE BOOTS"
CALIGULA
FIRST CITY OF THE SUMERIANS WITH WALLS AND A POPULATION OF 30,000. CONSTRUCTED OF MUD BRICK IT WAS THE HOME OF THE HERO IN THE $300 QUESTION IN YET MORE PEOPLE
URUK
IN 1492 HE SAILED THE OCEAN BLUE
COLUMBUS
NORMAN PRINCE WHO INVADED ENGLAND IN 1066 AND GAVE THE SAXON'S A PASTING AT THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
AT THIS LEGENDARY BATTLE 300 SPARTANS HELD OFF AN ENTIRE PERSIAN ARMY UNTIL THEY WERE BETRAYED AND OUTFLANKED. IT MADE A GREAT MOVIE IN THE 1960s VERSION.
THERMOPALYAE
CRUSADER WARRIOR KING. ACTUALLY A BAD KING, BUT A VERY GREAT WARRIOR KNOWN AS THE LIONHEART
RICHARD I
BEEN A LONG TIME GONE. NOW ITS ISTANBUL
CONSTANTINOPLE
HE AND HIS BUDDY ENKIDU SLEW HUMBABA
GILGAMESH
LAST PHAROAH OF EGYPT. SHE WAS ATTRACTED TO POWERFUL MEN INCLUDING JULIUS AND MARCUS. IN COMMITING SUICIDE SHE DIDN'T USE AND OPIOID, SHE USED AN OPHIDIAN
CLEOPATRA
STILL CELEBRATED IN ENGLAND. YEOMEN LONGBOWMEN FILLED FRENCH KNIGHTS SO FULL OF ARROWS THEY LOOKED LIKE PIN CUSHIONS. IT MADE A GREAT BACKGROUND FOR SHAKESPEARE'S PLAY HENRY V.
BATTLE OF AGINCOURT
GREAT WARRIOR AND BUILDER PHAROAH. COULD HAVE BEEN CALLED FATHER OF THE YEAR WITH HIS 150 CHILDREN. "VICTOR" AT KHADESH
RAMESES II
GREAT BODY OF LAWS DECREED BY AN ANCIENT BABYLONIAN KING. THE PENALTIES WERE A LITTLE ON THE HARSH SIDE, BUT IT ESTABLISHED THE PRINCIPAL THAT GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR LAW AND ORDER AND THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE
CODE OF HAMMURABI
THIS GREEK PHILOSOPHER INVENTED THE IDEA OF SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY. HE WROTE ABOUT EVERYTHING. HE WAS ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S TEACHER.
ARISTOTLE
THIS MACEDONIAN KING WAS A MILITARY GENIUS WHO CONQUERED PERSIA. HE SWEPT ACROSS ASIA INTO INDIA, BUT DIED YOUNG.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
GREAT BATTLE OF THE FIRST PERSIAN WARS. IT TURNED BACK THE PERSIAN INVASION INTO GREECE AND GAVE BIRTH TO AN OLYMPIC SPORTING EVENT
BATTLE OF MARATHON
NEPHEW AND ADOPTED HEIR OF JULIUS CAESAR. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE SECOND TRIUMVERITE AND THE FIRST EMPEROR.
OCTAVIAN OR AUGUSTUS CAESAR
REVIVED BY FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. THE VICTIMS, HERETICS, LAPSED JEWISH/MUSLIM CONVERTS NEVER SAW IT COMING. BECAUSE NOBODY EXPECTS.....
THE SPANISH INQUISITION
LIKE THE PERSON IN THIS COLUMN IN THE $400 ANSWER THIS RENAISSANCE ARTIST/INVENTOR WROTE ABOUT EVERYTHING ONLY WITH AN ARTISTIC FLOURISH. HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK IS LA GIACANDA
LEONARDO DA VINCI