1) Cadmus - Inventor of the Phonecian Alphabet according to Herodotus which eventually developed into Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Indian languages and their successor languages.
2) Genghis Khan - Damn near unified Asia, allowed massive transfers of knowledge and goods. Columbus was looking for his empire.
3) Jesus/Muhammad/Sidhartha...pick one
4) Pericles - key figure in Athenian Golden Age of Democracy
5) Alexander the Great
6) Columbus
7) Marx & Engels
8) Washington/Jefferson/ USA founding fathers
9) Julius & Octavian
10) Whoever wrote the religious texts of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
Close but no cigar:
Freud, Nietzsche, Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Kublai Khan, Charlamagne, Napoleon, Lincoln, Ghandi, Mansa Musa, Sun Tzu, Guru Nanak, Jung, FDR, Teddy Roosevelet, Eisenhower, Hannibal, Smith, Churchill, Mao, Deng Xiaoping, Suleiman, Hamurabi, Einstein, Galileo, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, and a few others...
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
When there are more laws, there are more criminals.
- Lao Tzu
