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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prophet the founded the Islamic religion | Muhammad |
| Threw off the rule of the Mongols; expanded the Russian nation; centralized power in Moscow | Ivan the Great |
| Roman poet who wrote the "Aeneid" | Virgil |
| Common law began in England during the rule of this king | Henry II |
| Northern Renaissance writer; author of Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| King of Babylon; had a strict law code named after him | Hammurabi |
| “the enlightened one;” founder of Buddhism | Siddhartha Gautama |
| Roman dictator murdered by members of the Senate in 44 BCE | Julius Caesar |
| famous apostle of the Christian faith | Paul |
| Peasant who led French forces in the Hundred Years’ War; capture and burned at the stake | Joan of Arc |
| Inventor of the movable type printing press | Johannes Gutenberg |
| first of the ancient Greek philosophers; forced to drink poison | Socrates |
| second of the Greek philosophers; writer of "The Republic" | Plato |
| third of the Greek philosophers; creator of the School of Athens; teacher of Alexander the Great | Aristotle |
| started the French throne in Paris; his dynasty eventually controlled most of France | Hugh Capet |
| Greek sculptor; sculpted statue of Athena in Parthenon and Zeus at Olympia | Phidias |
| first king of Persia; freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity | Cyrus the Great |
| general who led Athens to its “Golden Age;” extended democracy in Athens | Pericles |
| Persian prophet that believed life was an ongoing struggle between good and evil forces; founded the Persian religion | Zoroaster |
| “Father of the Hebrews;” founder of Judaism | Abraham |
| Roman emperor that legalized Christianity; moved the capital of the empire to Byzantium | Constantine |
| king of Macedonia; eventually conquered all of Greece | Philip II |
| greatest ruler of the Byzantine Empire; had Roman law codified and reconquered former Roman territory | Justinian |
| Renaissance painter and scientist; produced Mona Lisa and The Last Supper | Leonardo da Vinci |
| called for the First Crusade in a famous speech | Pope Urban II |
| author of the Greek tragedy "The Oresteia" | Aeschylus |
| author of the Greek plays "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone" | Sophocles |
| Duke of Normandy; won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and united most of England | William the Conqueror |
| founder of Christianity; viewed by followers as the Son of God/messiah | Jesus of Nazareth |
| king of Persia who led the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae at the end of the Persian Wars with Greece | Xerxes I |
| Greek scientist; "Father of Medicine" | Hippocrates |
| Greek scientist; invented the lever and the pulley | Archimedes |
| Greek historian; wrote the history of the Persian Wars; "Father of History" | Herodotus |
| Greek historian; wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides |
| Renaissance writer known for sonnets and his humanist scholarship; "Father of Humanism" | Petrarch |
| Byzantine monk that adapted the Greek alphabet to the Slavic people of Eastern Europe | St. Cyril |
| Greek poet; author of epic poems "Iliad" and "Odyssey" | Homer |
| Renaissance sculptor and painter; created the statue of "David"; painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo |
| Renaissance writer: author of "The Praise of Folly" | Erasmus |
| led Jews out of Egypt; received the Ten Commandments | Moses |
| tyrant of Athens; created a harsh code of law | Draco |
| tyrant of Athens; lightened the law, gave more power to the people, and walked away from power | Solon |
| member of the Second Triumvirate; Octavian’s rival for power; Julius Caesar’s second-in-command | Marc Antony |
| Muslim sultan that recaptured Jerusalem during the Third Crusade; fought Richard the Lion-Heart | Saladin |
| General from Carthage that invaded the Italian peninsula during the second Punic War | Hannibal |
| forced by English nobles to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 (limited the power of the king) | King John |
| emperor of China; had the Great Wall built to keep out invaders | Qin Shi Huangdi |
| founded the Gupta Empire in India | Chandra Gupta |
| Spanish empire in the Americas reached its height under this monarch | Charles V |
| greatest of the Mongol leaders | Genghis Khan |
| author of "The Prince," a book of advice to rulers | Machiavelli |
| member of the Second Triumvirate; first Roman emperor; began the Pax Romana | Octavian/Augustus Caesar |
| Greek mathematician; "Father of Geometry" | Euclid |
| Greek mathematician; created a theorem to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle | Pythagoras |
| greatest emperor of the Mauryan Empire; sent missionaries to spread Buddhism | Asoka |
| Macedonian; established an empire from Greece to Egypt to India; began Hellenistic Age | Alexander the Great |
| expelled the Muslim Moors from Spain; consolidated the Spanish nation | Ferdinand and Isabella |
| great ruler of the Franks; crowned the Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo in 800 CE | Charles I/Charlemagne |
| Roman astronomer, astrologer, geographer, mathematician, scientist, etc.; believed in a geocentric universe | Ptolemy |
| founded the Mauryan Empire in India | Chandragupta Maurya |
| considered one of the greatest thinkers of ancient China; founded one of the Chinese religions | Confucius |
| king of Persia who led the Persians in the Battle of Marathon at the beginning of the Persian Wars with Greece | Darius I |
| son-in-law of Muhammad; fourth caliph | Ali |
| member of the first triumvirate; frenemy of Julius Caesar; killed by pharaoh | Pompey |
| member of the first triumvirate; rich friend of Julius Caesar; killed by having molten gold poured down his throat | Crassus |
| father-in-law of Muhammad; first caliph | Abu-Bakr |
| united Upper and Lower Egypt; first pharaoh | Menes |
| Frankish leader who led the Franks in the Battle of Tours and stopping the Muslim invasion into Europe | Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer) |
| Frankish king who converted to Christianity and allied himself with the pope | Clovis |
| Pope who crowned Charles I as Holy Roman Emperor | Pope Leo III |
| king of the Aztecs when the Spanish arrived | Montezuma II |
| Ottoman Turk leader who conquered Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul | Muhammad II/Mehmet II |
| founder of Taoism | Laozi |
| Julius Caesar’s best friend and assassinator | Brutus |
| angel who appeared to Muhammad | Gabriel |
| Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs | Hernan Cortes |
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