Zeus whom he came to claim descent from.
Unless there were cousin marriages in his ancestry, Thomas Edison had 64 great great great great great grandfathers, most of whom will be unknown to history as they likely lived around 200 years before Edison himself.
Porus, the ruler of punjab
His paternal grandfather, whom he would never meet.
The Hellenstic world was made up of the kingdoms which were carved out of Alexander the Great's empire by his generals after he died. The main ones of these which endured were Egypt under Ptolemy and his successors, Syria-Mesopotamia under Seleucis and his successors, and Pergamon under Attalus and his successors, each of whom established Hellenistic (Greek-style) culture amongst the upper classes of their kingdoms.
Abraham was the father of Ishmael, to whom Arabs trace their ancestry.
An ancestor is a person from whom one's father or mother is descended. There are many ways to trace your heritage through your ancestry and the Internet has made that easier.
Zeus whom he came to claim descent from.
Yes , Alexander the Great did influence those whom he had conquered by inculcating/introducing Greek culture into those societies .
chandergupt Maurya married Helen daughter of Silukus, general of Alexander the great
Alexander the great, a war hero whom he did not just want to be like, but whomhe wanted to be better
Unless there were cousin marriages in his ancestry, Thomas Edison had 64 great great great great great grandfathers, most of whom will be unknown to history as they likely lived around 200 years before Edison himself.
Son of Philip II of Macedonia, whom he succeeded. On his father's death, he took over his father's invasion of the Persian Empire and spent ten years conquering it. He died after this and is remembered as Alexander the Great.
The Persian Empire.
Alexander Graham Bell
Ptolemy
From the Emporer's before him, and before him, ultimately from the heavens themselves.