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People
SOL Review of Key People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Babylonian king best known for his code of laws based on an eye for an eye | Hammurabi |
| founder of Buddhism | Siddharta |
| first emperor of China who oversaw construction of Great Wall of China | Shi Huangti |
| philosopher who taught respect, ancestor veneration, and emphasized education and government | Confucius |
| founder of Taoism | Lao tzu |
| leader of the Athenian Golden Age | Pericles |
| Roman statesman who defeated Gaul, then had a civil war with Pompey before becoming dictator | Julius Caesar |
| leader of the Pax Romana | Augustus |
| writer of the Iliad and the Odyssey | Homer |
| writer of The Aenied | Virgil |
| father of scientific medicine who claimed diseases and illness had natural causes | Hippocrates |
| Zoroaster | Persian religious prophet who taught of the struggle between good and evil |
| Socrates | Greek philosopher who taught that knowledge is power; used questions to challenge his students to think |
| student of Socrates who wrote the Republic and the Dialogues | Plato |
| taught Alexander and improved the use of logic and reasoning | Aristotle |
| father of Alexander the Great who defeated much of Greece | Philip II of Macedon |
| spread Hellenistic culture through conquering, especially of the Persians | Alexander the Great |
| Carthaginian general who attacked Rome but was never able to conquer the city itself | Hannibal |
| Frankish king who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800AD | Charlemagne |
| Byzantine emperor who codified the civil laws, reconquered lost lands, and rebuilt Constantinople | Justinian |
| Orthodox missionary who spread the religion to the Slavs of Eastern Europe | Cyril |
| Muslim/Arab conqueror who regained control of Jerusalem for Muslims but promised safe passage to the Holy Lands | Saladin |
| Who was the pope who made the call for the First Crusade? | Pope Urban II |
| final prophet for Muslims | Muhammad |
| Islamic name for God | Allah |
| father/patriarch of Judaism who made original covenant with God | Abraham |
| prophet of Judaism who led the Jews on the Exodus from Egypt and received the Ten Commandments | Moses |
| Christian messiah/savior | Jesus |
| second founder of Christianity who spread the religion to gentiles | Paul |
| Roman emperor who legalized Christianity with te Edict of Milan | Constantine |
| Roman emperor who moved the capital to Byzantium and renamed it after himself | Constantine |
| Norman king who led the invasion of England at the Battle of Hastings and was crowned England's first king | William the Conqueror |
| English king who began common law | Henry II |
| English king who signed the Magna Carta | John |
| first king of France; established the French throne | Hugh Capet |
| heroine of the Hundred Years' War who led France to victory | Joan of Arc |
| Spanish monarch who oversaw a massive oveseas empire | Philip II of Spain |
| the marriage of these two monarchs and their support of the Inquisition created a unified Spain | Ferdinand and Isabella |
| first tsar of Russia who defeated the Mongols and used Orthodox Christianity to unify the country | Ivan the Great |
| Renaissance poet who is known as the father of humanism; best known for his sonnets | Petrarch |
| supreme Renaissance man; Mona Lisa, Last Supper, inventor | Leonardo da Vinci |
| sculptor of David, painted the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo |
| wrote In Praise of Folly | Erasmus |
| wrote Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| inventor of the movable type printing press | Gutenberg |
| famous patron family of Florence | Medici |
| astronomer of Alexandria, Egypt who lived during Roman times and said the Earth is the center of the universe | Ptolemy |
| developed many principle of geometry | Euclid |
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