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WHI People
Based off of VaDOE SOLs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prophet who founded Islamic religion | Muhammad |
| He threw off Mongol rule; expanded the Russian nation; and centralized power in Russia | Ivan the Great |
| Roman poet who wrote Aeneid | Virgil |
| Common law in England began under his rule | Henry II |
| Northern Renaissance writer who wrote Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| King of Babylon; created a strict code of laws | Hammurabi |
| "Enlightened One"; founder of Buddhism | Siddhartha Gautama |
| Roman dictator who made many reforms in Rome, but was assassinated by Senators | Julius Caesar |
| Famous apostle of the Christian faith | Paul |
| Peasant; led French forces in 100 years war and Unified France; captured and burned at the stake | Joan of Arc |
| Inventor of the moveable type printing press | Johann Gutenberg |
| Greek philosopher; teacher of Plato; believed in questioning and learning | Socrates |
| Started the French throne; his dynasty eventually controlled most of France | Hugh Capet |
| Greek sculptor; hired to sculpt statute of Athena in Parthenon | Phidias |
| General and orator who led Athens in Golden Ages; extended democracy | Pericles |
| Persian prophet who created a religion with opposing forces | Zoroaster |
| Father of the Hebrews; founder of Judaism | Abraham |
| Roman Emperor who legalized Christianity in Edict of Milan | Constantine |
| King of Macedonia; conquered all of Greece before his death | Phillip II |
| Ruler of Byzantine Empire; created a code of laws; reconquered former Roman territories | Justinian |
| Renaissance artist who created the Mona Lisa and Last Supper | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Called for the 1st Crusades in a famous speech | Pope Urban III |
| Two people who wrote Greek plays (dramas) | Sophocles/Aeschylus |
| Duke of Normandy, led the Norman invasion, united England; won the battle of Hastings in 1066 | William the Conqueror |
| Greek Philosopher, wrote the Republic; teaher of Aristotle | Plato |
| Founder of Christianity; viewed by followers as the Messiah | Jesus |
| Greek who had achievements in science with the lever and screw pump | Archimedes |
| Father of Charlemagne; helped Pope defeat the Lombards of Northern Italy | Pepin III |
| Renaissance writer who is known as the Father of Humanism and wrote sonnets | Petrarch |
| Byzantine monk who adapted the Greek alphabet to slavic peoples | St Cyrill |
| Greek poet; wrote the Iliad and Odyssey | Homer |
| Greek Historian; Father of History | Herodotus |
| Made Jerusalem an impressive city | Solomon |
| Wrote The Praise of Folly; N. Renaissance writer | Erasmus |
| Received the 10 commandments; led Israelities out of Egyptian slavery | Moses |
| Greek; had achievements in science, father of Medicine | Hippocrates |
| Renaissance sculptor; carved natural postures; sculpted David (had hat and boots) | Donatello |
| Octavian's rival for the power of the Romans | Marc Antony |
| Universal Soul and all-encompassing God of Hinduism | Brahman |
| Greek who created a strict code of laws | Draco |
| Muslim sultan who recaptured Jerusalem during the 3rd Crusades | Saladin |
| Renaissance sculptor and painter; painted the Sistene Chapel ceiling and sculpted David | Michelangelo |
| Conquered the Aztecs | Cortez |
| Philosopher who started Confucianism | Confucius |
| Forced by English nobility to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 | King John |
| 1st Emperor of China; had the Great Wall of China built | Qin Shi Huangdi |
| General from Carthage who rode elephants over the Alps | Hannibal |
| Greek; teacher of Alexander the Great | Aristotle |
| Author of the Prince; gives advice for Italian city-states | Machiavelli |
| 1st Roman Emperor; Pax Romana occured under his rule | Augustus (formerly Octavian) |
| 2 people who expelled Jews and Muslim Moors from Spain | Ferdinand and Isabella |
| Greek tyrant who outlawed debt slavery | Solon |
| Persian who defeated Babylonians and freed the Hebrews from Babylonian Captivity | Cyrus the Great |
| Greek who created Geometry | Euclid |
| Philosopher who started Taoism | Laozi |
| Defeated the Spanish Moors (Muslims) at the Battle of Tours | Charles Martel |
| Conquered the Incas | Pizarro |
| Great ruler of the Franks; crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 CE by the Pope | Charlemagne |
| Name of God in Islam | Allah |
| King of Mali; introduced Islam | Mansa Musa |
| Renaissance Painter; created the School of Athens | Raphael |
| Roman astronomer who had acheivements in astronomy; thoguht up the geocentric theory (earth centered) | Ptolemy |
| Leader of the Catholic Church | Pope |
| Indian Prince who sent missionaries to spread Buddhism | Asoka |
| Established an empire that spread for Greece to Egypt to india; spread Hellenistic culture | Alexander the Great |
| Unified the Persian Empire | Darius |
| Unified the feuding Tribes of Israel (two Renaissance artists created sculptures of him) | David |
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