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Alcibiates

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Athenian statesman and general during the Trojan war

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Alexander the Great

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The leader of Greece in c 336 b.c.; conquered Persia, Babylon, and Asia creating the Macedonian colonies

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Aristagorus

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leader of Miletus

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Cassius

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Part of the conspirators; helped kill Caesar

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Cato the Younger

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conservative Roman senator; part of the trimumvirate

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Cicero

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a Roman orator

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Cleopatra VII

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the last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt

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Crassus

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Roman politician; formed the first trimumvirate

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Darius

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3rd Persian king; refounded the Persian empire

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Gaius Gracchus

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reenacted the reforms his brother made; was executed in 121 b.c.

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Gaius Marius

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elected consul 7 times; made some changes to the Roman army

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Hamilcar Barca

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Carthaginian general and statesman

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Hannibal Barca

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Carthaginian general in the second punic war

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Horatius

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defended a bridge against Lars Porsena

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Julius Caesar

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general for Rome; became dictator; conquered Gaul; was assassinated on March 15, 44 b.c.

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Junius Brutus

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founded the Roman Republic

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Leonidas

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Spartan king; led the army to defeat Xerxes’ army

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Lepidus

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one of Julius Caesars greatest supporters

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Marcus Brutus

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one of the people that betrayed Caesar; Roman politician

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Mardonius

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captured and sacked Athens in the battle of salamis

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Mark Antony

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Roman politician and statesman; loved Cleopatra; one of Caesars supporters

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Mithridates

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defeated Hannibal

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Octavian

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fought to avenge Caesar in 31 b.c.

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Phillip II

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gained domain over Greece by being a powerful military general

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Pompey

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military general in Rome

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Ptolemy

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defended Egypt against Perdiccas

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Romulus

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founded Rome after

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Scipio Aemilianus

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Roman general; played a key part in the defeat of Carthage

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Scipio Africanus

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defeated Hannibal in the battle of zama (second punic war)

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Sulla

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Roman military leader and dictator

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Tiberius Gracchus

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Roman tribune; came up with the agrarian reform; executed in 133 b.c.

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Xerxes

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king of Persia; was very busy

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