SOL Key People/Groups

-traded throughout the Mediterranean Basin

-created the alphabet

-known for purple dye

• Hebrews

• Phoenicians

• Mesopotamians

• Egyptians

-One of the world's first monotheists

-the "father" of the religions of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

- leader of the Hebrew people

• Moses

• Asoka

• Abraham

• Darius

-first group of people to believe in only 1 god

-practiced the Jewish faith

-law and moral code was the 10 Commandments from the Torah (holy book)

• Hebrews

• Egyptians

• Chinese

• Persians

-wanted to discover why people suffered

-founded Buddhism

- said “You can’t lose what you don’t cling to”

• Asoka

• Qin Shi Huangdi

• Maurya

• Siddhartha Gautama

-was a Mauryan emperor in India

-sent missionaries to spread Buddhism to China and Japan

• Siddhartha Gautama

• Paul

• Pericles

• Asoka

Greek epic poet who wrote The Odyssey

• Virgil

• Pericles

• Homer

• Pythagoras

Said:"Our form of government is called a democracy because its administration is in the hands, not of a few, but of the whole people"

- Ruled during the Golden Age of Athens and extended democracy

-Had the Parthenon built in Athens

• Herodotus

• Augustus Caesar

• Justinian

• Pericles

-son of Philip II

- established an empire from Greece to Egypt and the margins of India, extended Greek cultural influences (Hellenistic influences)

• Augustus Caesar

• Pericles

• Justinian

• Alexander the Great

-Part of the First Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus

- Fought in a civil war to be the sole person in control of the Roman Republic

-Named "dictator for life", assassinated by the Senate

• Augustus Cesar

• Justinian

• Julius Caesar

• Constantine

-Defeated Marc Antony in a civil war

- was the first emperor of Rome

-laid the foundations for the Pax Romana

• Julius Caesar

• Constantine

• Augustus Caesar

• Justinian