Important People Flashcards
Alcibiates
Athenian statesman and general during the Trojan war
Alexander the Great
The leader of Greece in c 336 b.c.; conquered Persia, Babylon, and Asia creating the Macedonian colonies
Aristagorus
leader of Miletus
Cassius
Part of the conspirators; helped kill Caesar
Cato the Younger
conservative Roman senator; part of the trimumvirate
Cicero
a Roman orator
Cleopatra VII
the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt
Crassus
Roman politician; formed the first trimumvirate
Darius
3rd Persian king; refounded the Persian empire
Gaius Gracchus
reenacted the reforms his brother made; was executed in 121 b.c.
Gaius Marius
elected consul 7 times; made some changes to the Roman army
Hamilcar Barca
Carthaginian general and statesman
Hannibal Barca
Carthaginian general in the second punic war
Horatius
defended a bridge against Lars Porsena
Julius Caesar
general for Rome; became dictator; conquered Gaul; was assassinated on March 15, 44 b.c.
Junius Brutus
founded the Roman Republic
Leonidas
Spartan king; led the army to defeat Xerxes’ army
Lepidus
one of Julius Caesars greatest supporters
Marcus Brutus
one of the people that betrayed Caesar; Roman politician
Mardonius
captured and sacked Athens in the battle of salamis
Mark Antony
Roman politician and statesman; loved Cleopatra; one of Caesars supporters
Mithridates
defeated Hannibal
Octavian
fought to avenge Caesar in 31 b.c.
Phillip II
gained domain over Greece by being a powerful military general
Pompey
military general in Rome
Ptolemy
defended Egypt against Perdiccas
Romulus
founded Rome after
Scipio Aemilianus
Roman general; played a key part in the defeat of Carthage
Scipio Africanus
defeated Hannibal in the battle of zama (second punic war)
Sulla
Roman military leader and dictator
Tiberius Gracchus
Roman tribune; came up with the agrarian reform; executed in 133 b.c.
Xerxes
king of Persia; was very busy
