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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The printer who invented the movable-type printing press | Johann Gutenburg |
| The Portuguse navigator who began the first successful expedition to circumnavigate the earth | Ferdinand Magellan |
| The man who overthrew the Libyan monarchy and set himself up as dictator | Sultan Mohammed V |
| Egypt's most famous female pharaoh | Queen Hatshepsut |
| The dictator of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for over 30 years | Joseph Mobutu |
| The Scottish missionary and explorer who spread the gospel in Africa | David Livingstone |
| The first Black president of South Africa who helped to end aparteid | Nelson Madila |
| prime minister of the United Kingdom during most of WW II | Winston Churchill |
| leader of the Nazi party who ordered the German invasion of Poland, starting WW II | Adolf Hitler |
| first leader of an independent Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah |
| emperor remembered for improving Ethiopia's educational system, economy, and government | Haile Selassie |
| explorer who claimed the eastern portion of Australia for Great Britian | Captain James Cook |
| first explorer to reach the South Pole | Roald amundsen |
| explorer respnsible for photgraphing and mapping much of Antarctica | Richard Byrd |
| The first elected femael head of state in Africa | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
| Communist dictator of Romania after WW II | Nicole Ceausescu |
| The student of Martin Luther who published a Finnish translation of the New Testament | Mikael Agricola |