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- Basil II
- conquered Bulgars, emperor of Byzantium (1000 CE)
- Arius
- a priest from Alexandria; taught that Jesus had been a mortal human and that he was a creation of God; followers called Arians (300 CE)
- An Lushan
- Tang dynasty military commadner, mounted a rebellion and captured the capital Chang'an (750 CE)
- Liudprand of Cremona
- sent on diplamtic mission to Constantinople in 968 and described Byzantium in a harsh way
- Al Ghazali
- Sufi persian theologian (1100)
- Song Taizu
- first Song emperor (970 CE)
- Omar Khayyam
- poet; wrote the Rubaiyat "quatrains"
- Harun al Rashid
- caliph that reigned during the high point of Abbasid dynasty (800 CE)
- St. Basil of Caesarea
- patriarch of Constantinople druign the mid 4th century, urged monasteries to enchance their effectiveness
- Ali
- candidate for caliph after Muhammad's death; served briefly but was assassinated; partisans of Ali organized the Shia party (650 CE)
- Muhammad
- Prophet of Islam (570-632)
- St. Simeon Stylite
- most famous of the "pillar saints"; demonstrated ascetic commitments by perchin gon pillars for years at a time (5th century)
- Zhu Xi
- Neo Confucian Chinese Philosopher (1150 CE)
- Constantine
- Roman emperor, designated Byzantium (Constantinople) as captial of Rome in 340
- Abu Bakr
- First caliph after the death of Muhammad (650 CE)
- Xuangzang
- 7th century Chinese monk who made a famous trip to India to collect Buddhist texts
- Tang Taizong
- Chinese emperor who founded the Tang dynasty (630 CE)
- Justinian
- "sleepless emperor"; reconquered lands of W; reproduced ancient Roman Law 550 CE
- Yang Jian
- Chinese emperor who reunited northern and southern China almost 350 years after the fall of the Han; also called Sui Wen Ti (600 CE)
- Procopius
- Byz historian that wrote about 2 Christian monks that worked in silk production
- Vladimir of Kiev
- converted to Orthodox Christianity and ordered his subjects to follow his example (1000 CE),
- Muraskai Shikibu
- a female Chinese writer, wrote The Tale of Genjji
- Huang Chao
- military commander that led an uprising of E China for almost a decade (875-884)
- Theodora
- Justinian's wife, helped in political matters (520 CE)
- Li Bo
- most popular poet of the Tang era (750 CE)
- St. Cyril, St. Methodius
- missionaries sent to Balkan lands to convert the peoples to Orthodox Christianity; devised Cyrillic alphabet (mid 9th century)
- Du Fu
- foremost writer of China's golden age of poetry (712-770 CE)
- Belisarius
- Justinian's general that reconquered lands of W (550 CE)
- Sui Yangdi
- second emperor of Sui dynasty was assassinated in 618 CE
- Ibn Rushd
- 12th century Muslim philosopher; qadi of Seville in Cordoba; work shaped Muslim philosophy
- Leo III
- inaugurated iconoclasm- church policy "the breaking of icons"; destroyed religious images (730 CE)
- Abu al Abbas
- leader of the rebellion against the Umayyad; descendant of Muhammad's uncle (750 CE)