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Ancient Biographies and Religious Figures List (20,000 BCE-600 CE)
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Project DBQ: 1) Explain how ____________ (your character) reflects and influenced their
geographic region’s Social values, Technological achievements, Economic resources and Political
ambitions in the era 8000BCE to 600 CE. 2a) CCOT- Explain why people still act in some ways
similar to your character today. 2b) CCOT- Explain why people have changed their actions to be
different from your character today. Be SPECIFIC.
1) Pick one of the research topics below. Bolded Characters are female.
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2) Find a reliable source of information, complete MLA Bibliography entry (x3)
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3) Complete a GSTEP analysis of the source (x3)
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4) Compile a MLA bibliography
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5) Complete GSTEP Writing Guide
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6) Complete Rough Draft
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b. Peer Review Due___________
7) Complete Second Draft
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8) Complete Glossary
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9) Complete Costume
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10) Complete Final Draft and Assemble Uberpacket
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Ancient China/SouthEast Asia
Religious Figures
Shangdi
Pangu
Fu Xi
Zaoshen
Nu Wa
Shennong
Guan Yu
Matsu
Historical Figures
Poets/Authors:
The Duke of Zhou
Prophets/Teachers:
Sima Qian
Political/Military:
Yu the Great
Sun-tzu
Lady Fu Hao
Wu Ding (Shang)
King Wu of Zhou
Duke Xiao of Qin
Qin Shi Huang
Zhao Gao
“Chinese Terra Cotta Warrior” Trung Trac & Trung Nhi Empress Lu Zhi
Scientists:
“Peking Man”
Xu Shen
Kung Fu-tzu
Xie Lingyun Tao Yuanming (Qian)
Mencius
Lao Tse-tzu
Zhang Heng Ma Jun
Shang Yang
“Chinese Inventor”
Mo Di
Ancient India/South Asia
Religious Figures
Vishnu
Shiva
Brahmin
Ganesha
Kali Lakshmi
Hanuman
“Religious Artist/ Architect”
Kannon
Shakti
Durga
Indra
Sarasvati
Radha
Annapurna
Historical Figures
Poets/Authors:
Valmiki
Vyasa
Prophets/Teachers:
Mahavira
Siddhartha Gautama
Political/Military:
Chandragupta Maurya
Scientists:
Aryabhata
Varahamihira
Kalidasa
Rama Sita
Parvati
Vishnu Sharma
Ashoka the Great
Vatsyayana
“Ancient Indian Soldier”
Ancient Mesopotamia/Palestine
Religious Figures
Baal Marduk
Ashur
Enlil Hagar
Ruth
Delilah
Eve Deborah
Hannah
Gilgamesh
Cain
Historical Figures
Poets/Authors:
Ishtar
Tammuz
Sin/Nanna
Lilith
Dagon
Rahab
Mary of Nazareth Mary Magdalene
Miriam, sister of Moses
Sara of Ur Rachel Rebecca
Noah Isaiah Ishmael Joseph
*Authorship in ancient Mesopotamia was not usually attributed except by Jews.
Due to extensive warfare, much of this literature is fragments/lost :(
Prophets/Teachers:
Abraham of Ur
Jesus of Nazareth
Jeremiah of Israel
Gilgamesh
Samson
St. Saul/Paul of Tarsus
John the Baptist
Political/Military:
Sargon of Akkad
Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon
Moses of Egypt
King David of Jerusalem
King Solomon of Jerusalem
Sennacherib
Hammurabi
Shalmaneser III
Hezekiah of Jerusalem
“Akkadian Soldier” Jephtah
Queen Jezebel
Queen of Sheba
St. George
Scientists:
“Babylonian Mathematician”
“Babylonian Medical Doctor”
Babylonian Astronomer Kidinnu
“Religious Artist/ Architect”
Ancient Persia
Religious Figures
Ahura Mazda
Historical Figures
Poets/Authors:
Angra Mainyu
*Authorship in ancient Elam/Persia was not usually attributed except by Jews.
Due to extensive warfare, much of this literature is fragments/lost :(
Prophets/Teachers:
Zoroaster
Political/Military:
Cyrus the Great
Darius III
Scientists:
N/A
Darius the Great
Xerxes
Queen Esther
Ancient Egypt
Religious Figures
Ammit
Amun Anat Anubis
Maat
Nekhebet
Nepthys
Set
Thoth
Astarte
Osiris
Aten
Ptah
Bastet Bes Hathor
Horus
Ra
Sekhmet
Serapis
Historical Figures
Poets/Authors:
Manetho
Prophets/Teachers:
Akhenaten
Political/Military:
Narmer (Menes)
Djoser
Sneferu
Khufu
Ahhotep
Pepi II Neferkare
Amenemhat II
Thutmose I Hatshepsut
Tutankhamen
Nefertiti
Ramses II
Shoshenq I Nectanebo II
Piankhi
Taharqo
Ezana of Aksum
Scientists:
Imhotep
Hemiunu
“Ancient Egyptian Beer Maker”
“Ancient Egyptian Priest/Mummy Maker”
“Ancient Egyptian Mason”
“Ancient Egyptian Sculptor”
Ancient Greece
Religious Figures
Athena
Aphrodite
Hygeia
Poseidon
Prometheus Charon
Medusa
The Fates
Hippolyta
Theseus
Penelope
Telemachus
Apollo
Ares Demeter
Hephaestus Hera Hermes
Zeus
Heracles
Tyche
Atlas
Cronus
Hades
Hecate
Persephone The Oracle of Delphi
Sirens
Jason (Argonaut)
Clytemnestra Medea Antigone
Medea
Lysistrata
The Minotaur Orion
Odysseus
Polyphemus the Cyclops
Calypso
Historical Figures
Poets/Authors:
Aeschylus
Pausanias
Sophocles
Euripides
Pindar of Thebes
Herodotus
Prophets/Teachers:
Socrates
Plato Aristotle
Political/Military:
Solon
Croesus
Miltiades
Themistocles
Pericles
Alcibiades
Demosthenes
Draco of Athens
King Leonidas
Agamemnon
Helen of Troy
King Priam
Philip of Macedon
Alexander the Great Ptolemy I Soter
Seleucus I Nicator Pheidippides
Olympias
Roxanne
Croesus of Lydia
Clytemnestra
Scientists:
Hippocrates of Cos Euclid of Alexandria
Thales of Miletus
Democritus of Abdera Archimedes of Syracuse Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Aristarchus of Samos Strabo of Amasia Ptolemy of Alexandria
Galen of Pergamon Pedanius Dioscoride “Ancient Greek Mosaic Artist”
Pythagoras
Homer Sappho
Plutarch
Polybius
Ancient Rome
Religious Figures
Jupiter
Juno
Saturn
Minerva
Mars
Mercury
Bacchus
St. Patrick St. Valentine St. Nicholas St. James (Sant Iago) St. Barbara St. Cecilia
St. Tatiana of Rome St. Helena
St. Ursula
Venus
Historical Figures
Poets/Authors:
Ovid
Vergil
Livy
Prophets/Teachers:
Pliny the Elder
Political/Military:
Tarquin the Proud
Lucretia
Tiberius Gracchus
Lucius Sulla
Pompey the Great
Spartacus
Queen Dido
Hannibal
Scipio Africanus
Cicero
Julius Caesar
Marcus Brutus
Mark Anthony
Cleopatra VIII
Octavian
Queen Boadicea
Nero
Caligula
Constantine Marcus Aurelius
Titus
Agrippina (Nero’s mother) Queen Medb of the Celts Alaric the Visigoth
Atilla the Hun Queen Candace of Ethiopia
Scientists:
“Roman Architect”
Plontius
Seneca
Tacitus
Cato the Elder
“Roman Civil Engineer”