Ok, this is for a school project, and we have to make a top 20 list about the most influential people that lived before 1500. I'm not asking for you to do my homework; I just want to know what other people think, and maybe it could lead me to a final order. This is the order of the people I chose so far:
1) Jesus of Nazareth – Europe – Inspired Christianity
2) Mohammad ibn ‘AbdullÄÂh – Middle East – Inspired the Islam religion
3) Abraham – Middle East – Founding patriarch of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
4) Gautama Buddha – Asia – Founded Buddhism
5) Moses – Middle East – Released the Jewish people from slavery, led them to Israel, and wrote the Torah.
6) Caesar Augustus – Europe – Emperor of the Roman Empire
7) Confucius – Asia – Chinese philosopher
8) Genghis Khan – Asia – Mongol founder and Khagan of the Mongol Empire
9) Aristotle – Europe – Greek philosopher
10) Alexander the Great – Europe – Greek king of Macedon; conquered most of Europe
11) Cyrus the Great – Europe – Founder of the Persian Empire
12) Plato – Europe – Greek philosopher
13) Johann Gutenberg – Europe – Invented the printing press
14) Christopher Columbus – Americas – First European explorer to discover the Americas
15) Archimedes of Syracuse – Europe – Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer
16) Leonardo da Vinci – Europe – Italian scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer
17) Pythagoras of Samos – Europe – Greek mathematician and founder of Pythagoreanism
18) William I of England – Europe – Conquered the Anglo-Saxons and became King of England
19) Euclid – Europe – Greek mathematician; wrote Elements; hugely affected geometry
20) Homer – Europe – Wrote the Odyssey, which inspired adventure stories in millennia to come
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