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Historiography: Add brief definition or description
Civilization: "The highest cultural grouping and the broadest level of cultural identity short of that which distinguishes humans from other species" (Samuel Huntington) ^[e]
Archaeology: The scientific study of past human cultures by means of the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data. ^[e]

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Hammurabi: Ancient Babylonian king, most famous for a code of laws. ^[e]
Hatshepsut: Add brief definition or description
Ramesses II: Add brief definition or description
Cyrus the Great: (580-529 B.C.) First Archaemedid emperor; founded Persia by uniting two Iranian tribes, the Medes and the Persians. ^[e]
Alexander the Great: King of Macedon who conquered the Persian Empire in the late 4th century BCE. ^[e]
Ashoka: Add brief definition or description
Qin Shi Huang: Add brief definition or description
Julius Caesar: Roman general and politician who conquered Gaul, won a civil war, and was assassinated in 44BC. ^[e]
Augustus: Founder of the Roman Empire; first emperor. ^[e]
Charlemagne: (742-814) King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor, rising to rule over most of Europe during his lifetime. ^[e]
Genghis Khan: (c. 1162-1227) the founder and most successful ruler of the Mongolian Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in history. ^[e]
Joan of Arc: A French peasant girl (ca. 1412 – 1431) who led her nation's armies during the Hundred Years' War and became a national heroine and saint. ^[e]
Suleiman the Magnificent: Add brief definition or description
Elizabeth I: Queen of England (reigned 1559-1603). ^[e]
Catherine the Great: Add brief definition or description
George Washington: (1732-1799) First U.S. President (from 1789 to 1797) and commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. ^[e]
Napoleon: Noted military commander, world historic figure and dictator of France from 1799 to 1814 ^[e]
Simón Bolívar: Add brief definition or description
Abraham Lincoln: (1809-65) Sixteenth U.S. President (from 1861 to 1865) who prosecuted the American Civil War to reclaim 11 seceding states and abolish slavery; assassinated in 1865 near the beginning of his second term. Considered the greatest of all American presidents. ^[e]
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Add brief definition or description
Lenin: The nom de guerre of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 - 1924), the founder of the Russian communist state ^[e]
Winston Churchill: British Prime Minister and war leader during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945; second term from 1951 to 1955. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a historian. ^[e]
Joseph Stalin: (1878 - 1953) The head of Russia's Communist ("Bolshevik") party and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death. ^[e]
Adolf Hitler: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. ^[e]
Mao Zedong: (1893–1976) Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China; military theorist most associated with protracted war ^[e]
Nelson Mandela: Add brief definition or description

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Bede: Add brief definition or description
Edward Gibbon: Add brief definition or description
R H Tawney: Add brief definition or description
Winston Churchill: British Prime Minister and war leader during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945; second term from 1951 to 1955. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a historian. ^[e]