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Team Spence: Famous
Team Spence: Famous men
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sargon | ruled Sumer c. 2334-2279 CE. Conquered city-states of Ur, Umma, and Lagash. Named himself king of Kish and marhsed south to conquer Mesopotamian land to the Persian Gulf. |
| Hammurabi | King of Babylonia. |
| Menes | King of ancient Egypt. United southern and northern kingdoms. |
| Moses | Embraced monotheism. Taught that there was only one god, known as Yahweh. |
| Darius | reigned 521-486 BCE. Younger kinsman of Cyrus. Extended Achaemenid empire to the east and west. |
| Confucius | First Chinese thinker to address political and social problems. Founder of Confucianism. |
| Charles V | Inherited authority over Habsburgs' Austrian domains and the Kingdom of Spain. Became emeperor in 1519. |
| Peter I | known as Peter the Great. Worked to transform Russia on the model of European lands. |
| Galileo Galilei | Proved that the earth is heliocentric. |
| Issac Newton | English mathematician. Wrote laws of universal gravitation and motion. |
| Hernan Cortes | In 1519 led about 450 soldiers to Mexico seized the emperor Motecuzoma II. Placed Tenochtitlan under seige. In 1521 starved the city into surrender. |
| Siddhartha Gautama | founder of Buddhism |
| Muhammad | prophet of Islam |
| Urban II | launched the crusades in 1095. Met with bishops at the Council of Clermont and called for Christian knights to take up arms and seize the holy land. |
| Marco Polo | best-known long-distance traveler of Mongol times. He was captured and made POW during a conflict between his native Venice and rival Genoa after returning from China. |
| Ibn Battuta | Was qadi and advicsor to the sultan of Delhi. Supervised affairs of a wealthy mosque and heard cases at law. Once snetenced a man to eighty lashes because he had drunk wine eight years earlier. |
| Hongwu | Became new emperor of China after the Yuan dynasty fell. Became emperor in 1368 and estabished the Ming dynasty. |
| Zheng He | Muslim from Yunnan. Rose to power through the ranks of eunuch administrators to became an advisor of Yongle. |
| Christopher Columbus | Founder of the new world. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Pursued Christopher Columbus's goal of establishing a western route to Asian waters. First man to circumnavigate the world. |
| Captian James Cook | Led three expeditions to the Pacific. Charted eastern Australia and New Zealand. Added New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Hawai'i to Europen maps. |
| Khubilai Khan | One of Chinggis Khan's grandsons. Actively promoted Buddhism. Provided support also for Daoists, Muslims, and Christians. |
| Otto I (Otto of Saxony) | Established himself as king in northern Germany by the mid-tenth century. Ventured into Italy twice to stop political disturbances, protect the church, and seek opportunities in the south. Pope John XII proclaimed him emperor in 962 CE. |
| Frederick Barbarossa | reigned from 1152-1190 CE. "The red beard" Sought to absorb the urban region of Lombardy. |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher. Wrote about physics, metaphysics, music, biology, etc. |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | (1225-1274) Spent most of his career teaching at the University of Paris. Believed Aristotle explained the workings of the world better than anyone else. |
| Babur | Muslim leader. Claimed to be descendant of Genghis Khan. Established a new empire, known as the Muhgal Empire. |
| Octavius | One of the 3 rulers in Rome's second triumvirate. Ended Rome's existence as a republic. |
| Mustafa Kemal | "the Father of the Turks" Ousted the Ottoman sultan, ending the Ottoman Empire. Became the first president of modern Turkey. |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | He was assassinated which marked the beginning of the first World War. |
| Alexander the Great | Son of Philip of Macedon. Under him, Macedonians created the largest empire so far in history. Divided his lands into 3 empires: the Antigonid, the Ptolemaic, and the Seleucid. |
| Akbar the Great | Ruled Mughal Empire from 15561605. Unified much of India under a religious tolerance policy. Married a Hindu women and welcomed Hindus into gov't positions. |
| Adolf Hitler | Head of the Nazi Party in Germany. Advocated extreme nationalism and social Darwinism. Staged the Holocaust during WWII. |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985. Under leadership, legislation was passed to add elements of private enterprise to the economy. Nuclear arms treaties were signed with the United States. |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Published "The Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies" in 1543. His theory was that the universe is heliocentric. |
| Nicholas II | The last czar of Russia. Reign marked with a disastrous loss to Japan over claims to Manchuria. Him and his entire family were executed by Soviet revolutionaries in 1918. |
| Nelson Mandela | The leader of the African National Congress in the 1950s. Supported guerrilla warfare. Was arrested in 1964 and imprisoned for life, he was released in 1990. Elected president in South Africa's first free and open election. |
| Muhammad Ali | Defeated French and the Ottomans. Gained control of Egypt in 1805. Began to industrialize and westernize the region. |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Important protester of colonial rule in 1920s India. Philosophy was passive resistance. Him and his followers conducted peaceful demonstrations, strikes, and boycotts of the colonial governments. |
| King Henry VIII | Ruled England during the Protestant Reformation. Had 8 wives. |
| King James I | Came to power in England in 1607. Wanted to accomplish reforms to accommodate both Catholics and Puritans. Jamestown colony was named after him. |
| King Clovis | Led a Germanic tribe called the Franks. Converted to Roman Catholicism and placed his capital in Paris. After death his empire was divided among his sons. |
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