Letter
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Description
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Person
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A
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Mathematician and engineer who discovered a law about buoyancy and created several defensive war machines to defend Syracuse.
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Archimedes
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B
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Celtic queen who led an uprising against the Romans in 60 or 61 AD.
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Boudica
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C
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Founder of the Achaemenid Empire.
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Cyrus the Great
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D
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Roman emperor who farmed cabbages during his retirement.
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Diocletian
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E
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Mathematician often called the "father of geometry".
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Euclid
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F
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Statesman of the Roman Republic who was a dictator in 221 and 217 BC.
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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
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G
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The birth name of the Buddha.
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Siddhārtha Gautama
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H
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General who took elephants across the Alps.
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Hannibal
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I
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Chancellor and priest who designed the first Egyptian pyramid.
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Imhotep
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J
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Prophet who authored the Book of Kings and the Book of Lamentations.
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Jeremiah
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K
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Pharaoh who commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Khufu
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L
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Philosopher credited with writing Tao Te Ching.
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Laozi
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M
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Wrestler who supposedly died when he trapped his hands in a tree he was trying to tear apart, and was then eaten by wolves.
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Milo of Croton
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N
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Babylonian king who ordered the construction of the Ishtar Gate and the reconstruction of Etemenanki.
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Nebuchadnezzar II
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O
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Soldier who deposed the last Western Roman emperor and became the first King of Italy.
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Odoacer
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P
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Sculptor who created the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.
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Phidias
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Q
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Leader who unified all of China in 221 BC.
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Qin Shi Huang
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R
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Pharaoh who fought the Hittites at Kadesh.
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Ramesses the Great
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S
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First ruler of the Akkadian Empire.
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Sargon the Great
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T
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Illyrian queen who killed an ambassador of the Roman Republic and besieged Corcyra.
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Teuta
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U
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Founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur.
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Ur-Nammu
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V
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Gallic king who surrendered to Julius Caesar in 52 BC.
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Vercingetorix
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W
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The only emperor of the Xin dynasty.
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Wang Mang
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X
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Athenian philosopher who wrote Anabasis and Cyropaedia, and who was one of the leaders of the mercenary force called the Ten Thousand.
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Xenophon
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Y
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A prominent disciple of Confucius, and the only known disciple from the south of China.
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Yan Yan
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Z
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Founder of the official religion of the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires.
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Zoroaster
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