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level: Personalities BC

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level questions: Personalities BC

Question	Answer
-	Elijah, 9th century BC
-	Isaiah, 8th century BC
-	Homer (late 8th or early 7th c.), Iliad, Odyssey
-	Mahavira, final Tirthankara of Jainism, c. 6th century BC
-	Confucius, 6th to 5th century BC
6th century BCE (570 - 495 BCE) best known for the theorem in geometry that is named after him.	PYTHAGORAS - 6th century BCE (570 - 495 BCE)
"all that we are is a result of what we have thought"	GAUTAM BUDDHA (563 BC)
5th Century BCE (470 BC - 399 BC) ancient greek (athens) philosopher; His method involves asking a series of questions until a contradiction emerges invalidating the initial assumption.	SOCRATES - 5th Century BCE (470 -399 BCE)
5th Century BCE (460-370 BCE) Greek philosopher ; proposed that matter consists of indestructible, indivisible units called atoms.	DEMOCRITUS - 5th Centurty (460 - 370 BCE)
5th Century BCE (428 - 348 BCE) ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC) ; founded a learning institution called 'Academy'	PLATO - 5th Century BCE (428 - 348 )
-	Archimedes (287–212 BC)
4th Century BCE (384 - 322 BCE) A student of Plato; tutored Alexander the Great ; wrote on logic, nature, psychology, ethics, politics, and art, developed one of the first systems for classifying plants and animals.; founded a learning institution called 'Lyceum'	ARISTOTLE - 4th Century BCE (384–322 BC)
an ancient Macedonian ruler and one of history’s greatest military minds who, as King of Macedonia and Persia. tamed an enormous wild horse 'Bucephalus' at the age of 12.; Aristotle was his tutor.	Alexander the Great - 4th Century BCE (356 - 323 BCE)
was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state.	DAMOCLES - 4th Century BCE
-	Zoroaster (historicity and date disputed)
-	Archimedes (287–212 BC)
"veni vidi vici"	JULIUS CAESAR (100 BC-44 BC)
-	Euclid, fl. 300 BC
-	Herod the Great, king of Judea
-	John the Baptist, Jewish prophet in Christianity and Islam
-	Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, pharaoh of Egypt
-	Herodotus (484–425 BC), Histories
-	Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Ruler of Egypt
-	Ashoka, Mauryan ruler of India
-	Spartacus, gladiator and insurgent leader of the Third Servile War
Perhaps the most infamous of Rome’s emperors, Nero Claudius Caesar (37-68 A.D.) ruled Rome from 54 A.D. until his death by suicide 14 years later	Nero Claudius Caesar - 1st Century AD
-	Chandragupta Maurya, Founder of the "Mauryan Dynasty"