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Confucius, a Chinese philosopher is known as the first teacher in China who wanted to make education available for everyone. He also was instrumental in establishing the art of teaching as a vocation. He also established ethical, moral, and social standards that formed the basis of a way of life known as Confucianism. -
Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, was the founder of Buddhism, one of the major world religions. He lived in northern India between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE. The title "Buddha" means "enlightened one," and it is used to describe someone who has awakened from ignorance and achieved freedom from suffering. Buddha's teachings form the foundation of Buddhism, which emphasizes the path to enlightenment and liberation from the cycle of rebirth and suffering. -
The Persian King Cyrus is remembered through history as a forgiving philosophical adversary he demonstrated these traits through his political philosophy of tolerance and respect toward non-Persians and his demonstration of mercy on his defeated foe. The Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science. -
After the fall of the last Roman King, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. The Roman Republic is established. Monarchy is no more and the highest positions in the government were held by two consuls, or leaders. A senate elected these consuls. At this time, lower-class citizens, had no say in the government. -
The Battle of Marathon was a battle fought during the Greco-Persian wars. It was fought on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica, where the Athenians stopped the Persian invasion of Greece. The Greeks could not hope to face the Persians’ cavalry on the open plain, but before dawn one day the Greeks learned that the cavalry was absent from the Persian camp, where upon Miltiades, one of the 10 generals ordered a general attack upon the Persian infantry. -
The Battle of Plataea was a battle that lasted longer than it should have because no one that participated in that battle wanted to make a full scale attack on the other, until the Persians went out of their way to cut off Greek supply routes and block water supplies. Though they did disrupt the Greeks way of living leaving the Greek force strung out and disorganized, Mardonius saw his opportunity and attacked. This offensive gave the Greeks the chance to gain the upper hand and win the battle. -
Socrates, an Athenian philosopher who believed that his mission from the god was to examine his fellow citizens and persuade them that the most important good for a human being was the health of the soul. He preferred to teach in small groups with people who we would call his disciples. He did this because it was easier to get his point across and it helped his disciples push deep thought. Later on Socrates was executed via poison because the Athenian court charged him with corrupting the youth. -
Alexander The Great was the king of macedonia who overthrew the Persian empire. He was crowned with the title "The Great" due to his unparalleled success as a military commander. He was one who never lost a battle. It was unknown how he died, it was rumored that it was because of his excessive drinking that caused the failure of his liver. -
The Hellenistic period is the period in ancient Greek history following the death of alexander the great In 323 BCE. It is said that Alexander The Greats conquests started the Hellenistic age.This era saw a flourishing of art, literature, science, and philosophy, with Alexandria, Egypt becoming a major intellectual center. -
The Mauryan Empire was a part of ancient India, near the Ganges and the Son rivers. The Empire was an efficient and highly organized autocracy with a standing army at the ready. -
The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian Empire between 264 BC and 146 BC. By the time the first Punic war took place Rome and Carthage were both big powers.The Second Punic War saw Roman troops, led by Scipio Africanus, defeat Hannibal after his stunning invasion of Italy. In the Third Punic War, the Romans destroyed the city of Carthage in 146 B.C., turning North Africa into yet another province of the all-powerful Roman Empire. -
The Han dynasty was the second best imperial dynasty of China. So thoroughly did the Han dynasty establish what was thereafter considered Chinese culture that “Han” became the Chinese word denoting someone who is ethnically Chinese. -
It was China's first unified state whose power was centralized instead of spread among different kingdoms in the north and south.The Qin, despite existing for only 14 years, are credited with inaugurating the Chinese imperial system, which would persist in some form throughout Chinese history until it was ultimately overthrown by the Xinhai Revolution in 1911. -
On March 15, 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in Rome, Italy.Caesar was the dictator of the Roman Republic, and his assassins were Roman senators, fellow politicians who helped shape Roman policy and government. He was a successful military leader who expanded the republic to include parts of what are now Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium. -
Jesus born c. 6–4 bce, Bethlehem—died c. 30 ce, Jerusalem; was a religious leader revered in Christianity, one of the world’s major religions. He is regarded as the incarnation of God. -
Rome is no longer ruled by kings and queens. The Romans established a new form of government whereby the upper classes ruled, namely the senators and the equestrians, or knights. However, a dictator could be nominated in times of crisis. In 451 BC, the Romans established the “Twelve Tables,” a standardized code of laws meant for public, private, and political matters. -
The Bible says that the crucifixion of Jesus occurred after he was arrested and charged with claiming to be king of the Jews. Which was considered a betrayal of the king and punishable by death. Jesus was whipped, carried his own cross, hung between two thieves, pierced in the side, and given a crown of thorns to wear. -
Constantine is known for his battlefield conversion to Christianity at the Battle of Milvian Bridge. He is also known for his legalization of Christian practice that ended state-sponsored persecution, and his participation at the Council of Nicea, which affirmed the divinity of Christ and canonized scripture. Constantine's conversion. It is possible that Constantine's mother, Helena, exposed him to Christianity. In any case, he only declared himself a Christian after issuing the Edict of Milan. -
Gupta dynasty, rulers of the Magadha state in northeastern India. They maintained an empire over northern and parts of central and western India from the early 4th to the late 6th century ce. Historians once regarded the Gupta period as the classical age of India—during which the norms of Indian literature, art, architecture, and philosophy were established -
The fall of the Western Roman Empire is generally considered to have occurred in 476 AD when the Germanic warlord Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, marking the end of centralized political control in the Western Roman Empire. However, the decline of the empire was a gradual process over several centuries due to various internal and external factors like barbarian invasions and economic instability.