Take with a grain of salt some of the more known names. History is written by the victors (i.e. Edison) so your list is probably rigged by construction, and som

Take with a grain of salt some of the more known names. History is written by the victors (i.e. Edison) so your list is probably rigged by construction, and sometimes what changed history is not the person or what he really did, but the story about him (i.e. Jesus). Also, calling the "world" the line of culture that comes from greece and rome to us is dangerous, who invented gunpowder or arabic numerals? Anyway, considering that with globalization that line of culture is the prevalent now in all the world, the victor that writes the history, probably is what you can know.