History Names Flashcards
Narmer
Man who unified upper and lower eygpt
Tutankhamen(King Tut)
- Puts end to monotheism
- Moves new capital to Memphis,
- Tomb found by Howard Carter
Hatsheput
First female Pharoah
Ramses II
- A great military Pharoah
Sargon
First ruler of Akkadian Empire
Hammurabi
Babylonian king who created the eye for and eye law.
Ashurbanipal
Assyrian king
Croesus
A Lydian King
Cyrus the Great
Persian King
Darius
Persian King who started the war with Greece
Xerxes
Persian king who tried to conquer Greece
Sir Arthur Evans
Archeologist who found the Greek city of Knossos on the island of Crete.
Homer
Poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Heinrich Schliemann
Archeologiat who found the city of Troy
Herodotus
A Greek Historian
Draco
He was one of the 9 Archons and helped make Athens a democracy
Solon
- Archon, 594 BC
- Canceled debts of the poor
-Outlawed Debt Slavery - One of the 4 men who helped Athens move toward a democracy.
Cleisthenes
- Tyrant
- Which made Athens a direct democracy.
Peisistratus
- Tyrant
- Exiled novles who disagreed with his policies
- Disturbutied nobles land to poor farmers
Pericles
Greek politician during the golden age of athens
- It was his Idea to build the Parthenon
Themistocles
Athenian politician and naval strategist who was the creator of Athenian sea power and the chief saviour of Greece from subjection to the Persian empire at the Battle of Salamis in 480 bce.
Leonidas
Spartan king who fought at Thermopylae
Thucydides
Athenian historian and General
Phidias
Greek Sculpture