Famous Ancients

Name the people throughout ancient history

On or before <500 AD

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Hint	Years	Answer
A) The Great Macedonian ruler who conquered from Greece to Persia	356-323 BC	Alexander
B) British tribal queen who led a massive uprising against the invading Romans	30-61 AD	Boudica
C) This Roman emperor established the eastern city and was the first Christian ruler	272-337 AD	Constantine
D) Egyptian pharaoh who initiated the construction of the step pyramid at Saqqara	2650 BC	Djoser
E) Greek philosopher who philosophized that happiness is attained thru a simple life	341-270 BC	Epicurus
F) Also called the "last of the Romans", he stopped Attilas raid at the battle of Catalaunian Plains	391-454 AD	Flavius Aetius
G) Greek physician who revolutionized medicine in writing	129-216 AD	Galen
H) Roman emperor who built a wall along Englands north border with Scotland	76-138 AD	Hadrian
I) Christian writer and patriarch of Antioch, famous for his 7 letters	D 108 AD	Ignatius
J) He was Cleopatras lover and stabbed at the Ides of March	100-44 BC	Julius Caesar
K) Egyptian pharaoh who commissioned the Great pyramid of Giza construction	2566 BC	Khufu
L) Led the Greeks against the massive Persian army at Thermopylae	d 480 BC	Leonidas
M) Roman consul and lover of Cleopatra	83-30 BC	Mark Antony

Hint	Years	Answer
N) Longest reigning king of Babylon	642-562 BC	Nebuchadnezzar
O) Also called Augustus, he was the first Roman emperor	63 BC-14 AD	Octavian
P) Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates and teacher to Aristotle	428-349 BC	Plato
Q) First emperor of China, he was buried with thousands of terracotta warriors	259-210 BC	Qin Shi Huang
R) Considered one of the greatest pharaohs of the New Kingdom	1279-1213 BC	Ramses
S) Pharaoh who expanded Egyptian influence in Syria	1290-1279 BC	Seti
T) Child pharaoh whose tomb laid untouched for 3000 years until 1922	1332-1323 BC	Tutankhamun
U) Preacher who translated the Bible into the Gothic language and converted Goths to Christianity	311-383 AD	Ulfilas
V) Roman emperor who initiated the construction of the Colosseum	9-79 AD	Vespasian
W) First king of the Zhou dynasty of China	d 1043 BC	Wu
X) Led the massive Persian army against the Greeks at Thermopylae	518-465 BC	Xerxes
Y) Established ancient Chinas Xia dynasty and established a system to control flooding	d 2025 BC	Yu
Z) Byzantine emperor who ruled during the fall of the Western Roman empire, but strengthened the eastern empire	476-491 AD	Zeno

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