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- Alcibiades
- ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC)
- Solomon
- Expanded politics, military; increased trade; building projects, Temple which housed the Ark of the Covenant
- Hammurabi
- Amorite ruler of Babylon 1792-1750 B.C. He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. (p. 34)
- David
- Reunited Israel, defeated Philistines, capital at Jerusalem, centralized political administration
- Tiglath-Pileser III
- Subdue Palestine and incorporate it as province; deport ten tribes of Israel in 722 BC
- Xerxes
- Persian leader who invaded Greece
- Themistocles
- Athenian statesman who persuaded Athens to build a navy and then led it to victory over the Persians (527-460 BC)
- Pisistratus
- tyrant after Solon, fixed the fall of Solons endevears
- Saul
- First King of united Israel, at his death, anarchy"political chaos"
- Nebuchadnezzar II
- Defeats Assyria, Egypt; controls Syria and Palestine; destroys Jerusalem, Judah exiled to Babylonia
- Thucydides
- ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC)
- Sargon
- King of Akkade who conquers Mesopotamia, establishes first empire. Humble orgins, becomes absolute ruler.
- Pericles
- Athenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athen's political and cultural supremacy in Greece
- Cyrus the Great
- Leader of Persia, conquers Media
- Moses
- the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus
- Miltiades
- Led the Athenians' army and crushed Persian forces
- Tiglath-Pileser I
- establishes empire in 1360BC; brutal, deliberate terror
- Leonidas
- king of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where he was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC)