Great Men and Women
- Cheops, pharaoh of Egypt (2700–2675 B.C.)
- Abraham (c. 2100 B.C.)
- Hammurabi (c. 1750 B.C.)
- Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (c. 1480 B.C.)
- Moses (c. 1450 B.C.)
- Tutankhamen (c. 1355 B.C.)
- Nebuchadnezzar (1146–1123 B.C.)
- King David (c. 1000 B.C.)
- Homer (c. 800 B.C.)
- Romulus (753–716 B.C.)
- Sennacherib (705–681 B.C.)
- Lao-tse (b. 604 B.C.)
- Pythagoras (581–497 B.C.)
- Confucius (K’ung Fu-tsu) (551–479 B.C.)
- Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) (550–480 B.C.)
- Darius I of Persia (522–485 B.C.)
- Socrates (470–399 B.C.)
- Hippocrates (b. 460 B.C.)
- Plato (427–347 B.C.)
- Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
- Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.)
- Shi Huangdi (first emperor of unified China, 221–207 B.C.)
- Hannibal (fought with Rome c. 218–207 B.C.)
- Judas Maccabaeus (c. 168 B.C.)
- Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
- Julius Caesar (100–44 B.C.)
- Virgil (70–19 B.C.)
- Caesar Augustus (c. 45 B.C.–A.D. 14)
- Jesus Christ (c. 4 B.C.–A.D. 33)
- Caligula (died A.D. 42)
- Saint Paul (c. A.D. 45)
- Nero (died A.D. 68)
- Marcus Aurelius (ruled A.D. 161–180)
- Constantine the Great (ruled A.D. 306–337)
Primary Sources
- The Palette of Narmer (c. 3200 B.C.)
- Excerpts from the Pyramid Texts (c. 2425–2300 B.C.)
- Birth legend of Sargon (c. 2240 B.C.)
- Code of Hammurabi (c. 1780 B.C.)
- The Twelve Tables of Roman law (c. 450 B.C.)
- Thucydides, “The Plague of Athens” (c. 430 B.C.)
- Julius Caesar, “The Germans” from Book VI of The Gallic Wars (c. 51 B.C.)
- Augustus Caesar, “Acts of the Divine Augustus (A.D. 14)
- Josephus, “Siege and Fall of Jerusalem” and “Masada” from The Wars of the Jews (c. A.D. 70)
- Procopius of Caesarea, “Alaric’s Sack of Rome” from History of the Wars (c. A.D. 410)
- Codex Theodosianus (A.D. 438)
Memorization
- the principle pharaohs of Egypt
- the dates of the Republic of Rome
(the dictatorships of Sulla, Pompey, and Julius Caesar,
as well as the First and Second Triumvirates)
- the first fifteen emperors of Rome
- the dates of reign for Constantine I and Constantine II
- the dates of the Peloponnesian War
and the three Punic Wars