Famous Ancients

A) The Great Macedonian ruler who conquered from Greece to Persia

356-323 BC

B) British tribal queen who led a massive uprising against the invading Romans

30-61 AD

C) This Roman emperor established the eastern city and was the first Christian ruler

272-337 AD

D) Egyptian pharaoh who initiated the construction of the step pyramid at Saqqara

2650 BC

E) Greek philosopher who philosophized that happiness is attained thru a simple life

341-270 BC

F) Also called the "last of the Romans", he stopped Attilas raid at the battle of Catalaunian Plains

391-454 AD

G) Greek physician who revolutionized medicine in writing

129-216 AD

H) Roman emperor who built a wall along Englands north border with Scotland

76-138 AD

I) Christian writer and patriarch of Antioch, famous for his 7 letters

D 108 AD

J) He was Cleopatras lover and stabbed at the Ides of March

100-44 BC

K) Egyptian pharaoh who commissioned the Great pyramid of Giza construction

2566 BC

L) Led the Greeks against the massive Persian army at Thermopylae

d 480 BC

M) Roman consul and lover of Cleopatra

83-30 BC

N) Longest reigning king of Babylon

642-562 BC

O) Also called Augustus, he was the first Roman emperor

63 BC-14 AD

P) Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates and teacher to Aristotle

428-349 BC

Q) First emperor of China, he was buried with thousands of terracotta warriors

259-210 BC

R) Considered one of the greatest pharaohs of the New Kingdom

1279-1213 BC

S) Pharaoh who expanded Egyptian influence in Syria

1290-1279 BC

T) Child pharaoh whose tomb laid untouched for 3000 years until 1922

1332-1323 BC

U) Preacher who translated the Bible into the Gothic language and converted Goths to Christianity

311-383 AD

V) Roman emperor who initiated the construction of the Colosseum

9-79 AD

W) First king of the Zhou dynasty of China

d 1043 BC

X) Led the massive Persian army against the Greeks at Thermopylae

518-465 BC

Y) Established ancient Chinas Xia dynasty and established a system to control flooding

d 2025 BC

Z) Byzantine emperor who ruled during the fall of the Western Roman empire, but strengthened the eastern empire

476-491 AD