Humanities Test 1 People
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- Abraham of Ur
- Led Hebrew people out of Ur to Fertile Crescent(Canaan) - Made covenant with God- his people would become a great nation
- David
- King of Hebrews 1000 bce
- Solomon
- Son of David - divided Israel state into Isreal & Judah - Built grand temple for the Arc of the Covenant
- Marduk
- Mesopotamia - Babylonian Creation- chief god of Ancient Babylon - destroys Tiamat
- Tiamat
- Mesopotamia - Babylonian Creation - Great mother - spawns serpents & monster to make war on the Gods
- Achilles
- Greek Hero in the Homer's Illiad - part mortal part god
- Patroclus
- Friend & tutor of Achilles
- Hector
- Leader of the Trojan forces
- Priam
- King of Troy - father of Hector & Paris - in Illiad
- Homer
- Blind poet that supposedly wrote Illiad and Odysses
- Paris
- Prince of Troy - Brother of Hector - starts Trojan war by abducting Helen
- Menelaus
- King of Sparta - husband of Helen
- Helen
- wife of Menelaus - abduction starts Trojan wars
- Agememnon
- King that led the Greeks to Troy - Brother of Menelaus
- Odysseus
- Leader of the Greeks - hero in the Trojan war - Odysses written about him
- Oedipus
- King of Thebes
- Antigone
- Daughter of Oedipus - in the Antigone
- Ismene
- Sister of Antigone - daughter of Oedipus
- Polynices
- Brother of Antigone - son of Oedipus
- Eteocles
- Brother of Antigone - son of Oedipus
- Creon
- King of Thebes - after Oedipus - Protagonist in Antigone
- Haemon
- Son of Creon - lover of Antigone
- Eurydice
- Wife of Creon - kills herself in Antigone
- Teiresias
- Blind prophet - advisor to Creon
- Akhanaten
- Pharoah of Egypt - Changed Egypt to Monotheism - wife was Neffertiti
- Sophocles
- Tragic Playwrite in Greece - wrote Antigone