1. Abraham (round 2,000 B.C.) - ANS-The Hebrew patriarch from which the Hebrews
descended.
2. Abu Bakr (632-634) - ANS-Muhammad's successor who positioned down revolts with a
view to preserve oder of muslims
3. Aeschylis (525-456 B.C.) - ANS-Greek who wrote plays the involved the characters
having a hubris.
4. Ahmose (1550 B.C.) - ANS-Egyptian nobleman who founded the 18th dynasty and
expelled the Hyksos.
5. Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) - ANS-German artist who studied art in Italy and brought
returned what he learned to Germany
6. Alcibiades (450-404 B.C.) - ANS-Athenian chief who convinced the Athenians to invade
Syracuse. They failed towards Syracuse and by no means quite recovered.
7. Aldus Minutia (1450-1515) - ANS-replaced Gothic-style black-letter casts of Gutenburg
with fancy italics
8. Alexander Nevsky (1236-1263) - ANS-Ruled Novgorod and halted eastward growth
9. Alexander the Great (336-323 B.C.) - ANS-Philip's son who took over to steer the
Greeks.
10. Alfonso de Albuquerque - ANS-Portuguese who established buying and selling post
alongside west coast of India
11. Alfred the Great (871-899) - ANS-Anglo-Saxon who led resistance against Danish
vikings.
12. Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton) 1375-1358 B.C. - ANS-Egyptian chief within the City of
Amarna. He singled out Aton (Ra) as the best actual god.
13. Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) - ANS-Belgian medical doctor who dissected animals and
humans. He wrote On the Structure of the Human Body
14. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) - ANS-demonstrated how common sense can show
the life of God
15. Apuleius (a hundred twenty five-200 C.E.) - ANS-Roman truth seeker who wrote the first
Latin novel- The Golden Ass.
16. Archilochus (7th Century B.C.) - ANS-A well-known Greek lyricist who pioneered the
new poetic form.
17. Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 B.C.) - ANS-Greek who calculated the fee of pi.
18. Aristarchus (310-250 B.C.) - ANS-astronomer who got here up with the Heliocentric
Theory
19. Aristarchus (310-250 B.C.) - ANS-Greek who postulated a heliocentric theory that the
earth revolved around the sun
20. Aristophanes (450-385 B.C.) - ANS-Greek author of comedies like Acharnianst and
Lysistrata.
, 21. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) - ANS-Plato's exceptional student, founded a school called
Lyceum. Aristotle adversarial Democracy.
22. Attila the Hun (433-453) - ANS-Leader of the Huns who invaded Gaul. Also referred to
as "Scourge of God"
23. Augustus (Octavian) Caesar (27-14 B.C.) - ANS-Cunning flesh presser who instituted a
good deal wanted reform
24. Averroes (1126-1198) - ANS-Scholar who wrote statement on Aristotle's works
25. Bar-Kochba (132-135 C.E.) - ANS-Roman messianic chief who started out a rebellion.
26. Bartholomew Diaz - ANS-Portuguese explorer who crossed the equator to the southern
tip of Africa
27. Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566) - ANS-Colonizer who campaigned towards the
cruel remedy of the natives
28. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) - ANS-contributed much to math and technological know-how
29. Boccaccio (1313-1375) - ANS-a schalar who became stimulated by way of Petrarch
30. Boethius (480-525) - ANS-Roman student who turned into dedicated to Plato and
Aristotle. He wrote The Consolation of Philosophy and Organon
31. Boniface VII (1294-1303) - ANS-attempt to reassert papal supremacy over kings become
called Unom Sanctom
32. Cardinal Richelieu (1642) - ANS-Agreed to provide economic assist to protestants
33. Catullus (85-54 B.C.) - ANS-Roman who wrote passionate love lyrics
34. Charlemagne (768-814) - ANS-Pepin's son who inherited biggest territory within the west
and expanded the empire.
35. Charles I (V) (1516-1556) - ANS-Elected at king of Holy Roman Empire
36. Charles IV of Luxemburg (1347-1378) - ANS-issued Golden Bull which fixed an electoral
College at 7 participants
37. Charles Martel (688-741) - ANS-Frank noble who led protection in opposition to Muslim
raiders. (Known as Battle of Tours)
38. Charles V (1364-1380) - ANS-French King who driven England back to coastlands. Had
sudden dying.
39. Charles VIII (1483-1498) - ANS-French king who seized the Kingdom of Naples
40. Christopher Columbus (1451-1504) - ANS-Spanish explorer funded through Ferdinand
and Isabella who found Central America
41. Cleisthenes (508 B.C.) - ANS-Athenian who took Peisistratus' vicinity and tried to create
a democracy.
42. Clement VII (1378-1394) - ANS-Antipope who mounted himself in Avignon and refused
to create college of Cardinals.
43. Cosimo (1389-1464) - ANS-effective ruler of Florence
44. Cyrus the Great (559-530 B.C. - ANS-Persion king who based the Persian (Achaemenid)
Empire
45. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - ANS-Italian writer of Divine Comedy
46. Democritus (four hundred B.C.) - ANS-Greek who theorized that physical items were
made of atoms
47. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) - ANS-Used classical schooling to
understand early Christianity. He wrote Praise and Folly
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