Human rights

  • Hammurabi
    2123 BCE

    Hammurabi

    His job was to be a politician, Hammurabi did not make human rights what he created, a code, c. 1750 BC.
  • Moses
    1200 BCE

    Moses

    Moses was a teacher,
    his contribution was establishing the ten maintenances.
  • Zarathustra
    628 BCE

    Zarathustra

    His work was as a prophet and priest,
    his contribution was the founding of Zoroastrianism.
  • Cyrus the Elder
    600 BCE

    Cyrus the Elder

    His work was founding of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, his contribution was the first Persian Empire.
  • 550 BCE

    Siddharta (Buddha)

    His work was as an ascetic, meditator and spiritual teacher, and his contribution was the founding of Buddhism and the teaching of a path to enlightenment and liberation from suffering.
  • Plato
    384 BCE

    Plato

    He was a philosopher, teacher, physicist, poet and mathematician, and his contribution was theories of ideas.