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I ruled Egypt as a woman and sent ships to the land of Punt.	Hatshepsut		historical-figures-who-am-i
I built the Great Pyramid at Giza.	Khufu		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote one of the first known law codes in Babylon.	Hammurabi		historical-figures-who-am-i
I taught by asking questions in Athens and was Plato's teacher.	Socrates		historical-figures-who-am-i
I tutored Alexander the Great and wrote on logic, science and politics.	Aristotle		historical-figures-who-am-i
I conquered Persia and spread Greek culture to India's border.	Alexander the Great		historical-figures-who-am-i
I crossed the Alps with elephants to attack Rome.	Hannibal		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led the Roman army in Gaul and was killed on the Ides of March.	Julius Caesar		historical-figures-who-am-i
I became Rome's first emperor in 27 BCE.	Augustus		historical-figures-who-am-i
I united China and began the Terra-cotta Army.	Qin Shi Huang		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a teacher in China who stressed respect, learning and family.	Confucius		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a prince in India who became the Buddha.	Siddhartha Gautama		historical-figures-who-am-i
I ruled the Maurya Empire and turned to peace after a bloody war.	Ashoka		historical-figures-who-am-i
I am the Prophet of Islam, born in Mecca.	Muhammad		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was crowned emperor of the Romans in 800.	Charlemagne		historical-figures-who-am-i
I won England at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.	William the Conqueror		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a French teenager who led an army in 1429.	Joan of Arc		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a Mongol leader who built the largest land empire.	Genghis Khan		historical-figures-who-am-i
I ruled Mali and made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.	Mansa Musa		historical-figures-who-am-i
I traveled to China and wrote about it in the 1200s.	Marco Polo		historical-figures-who-am-i
I painted the Mona Lisa and sketched flying machines.	Leonardo da Vinci		historical-figures-who-am-i
I painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and carved the David.	Michelangelo		historical-figures-who-am-i
I printed Bibles with movable type in Europe around 1450.	Johannes Gutenberg		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote 95 theses and began the Reformation.	Martin Luther		historical-figures-who-am-i
I first sailed across the Atlantic for Spain in 1492.	Christopher Columbus		historical-figures-who-am-i
My crew first sailed around the world, though I died on the way.	Ferdinand Magellan		historical-figures-who-am-i
I conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521.	Hernan Cortes		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was Queen of England during the Spanish Armada.	Elizabeth I		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.	William Shakespeare		historical-figures-who-am-i
I used a telescope to see Jupiter's moons.	Galileo Galilei		historical-figures-who-am-i
I explained gravity and the laws of motion.	Isaac Newton		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the Sun King of France.	Louis XIV		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote that people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.	John Locke		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led the Haitian Revolution.	Toussaint Louverture		historical-figures-who-am-i
I crowned myself emperor of the French in 1804 and lost at Waterloo.	Napoleon Bonaparte		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led the fight for independence in northern South America.	Simon Bolivar		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the British queen for over 63 years and an era is named after me.	Queen Victoria		historical-figures-who-am-i
I founded modern nursing in the Crimean War.	Florence Nightingale		historical-figures-who-am-i
I developed the theory of evolution by natural selection.	Charles Darwin		historical-figures-who-am-i
I discovered radium and won two Nobel Prizes.	Marie Curie		historical-figures-who-am-i
I developed the theory of relativity.	Albert Einstein		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led India to independence through nonviolence.	Mahatma Gandhi		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led Britain through most of World War II.	Winston Churchill		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a South African leader jailed for 27 years who became president.	Nelson Mandela		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.	Vladimir Lenin		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first president of the United States.	George Washington		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote the Declaration of Independence.	Thomas Jefferson		historical-figures-who-am-i
I flew a kite in a storm and signed the Constitution.	Benjamin Franklin		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote most of the Federalist Papers and later became the fourth president.	James Madison		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first Treasury Secretary and later died in a duel.	Alexander Hamilton		historical-figures-who-am-i
I guided Lewis and Clark.	Sacagawea		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the seventh president and fought at New Orleans.	Andrew Jackson		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the Shawnee leader who built a Native alliance.	Tecumseh		historical-figures-who-am-i
I escaped slavery and led others on the Underground Railroad.	Harriet Tubman		historical-figures-who-am-i
I escaped slavery, wrote an autobiography, and spoke against it.	Frederick Douglass		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was president during the Civil War.	Abraham Lincoln		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox.	Robert E. Lee		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led the Union armies and became president.	Ulysses S. Grant		historical-figures-who-am-i
I founded the American Red Cross.	Clara Barton		historical-figures-who-am-i
I organized the Seneca Falls Convention.	Elizabeth Cady Stanton		historical-figures-who-am-i
I campaigned for women's right to vote and was arrested for voting in 1872.	Susan B. Anthony		historical-figures-who-am-i
I invented the practical light bulb and the phonograph.	Thomas Edison		historical-figures-who-am-i
I patented the telephone in 1876.	Alexander Graham Bell		historical-figures-who-am-i
We built and flew the first airplane at Kitty Hawk.	The Wright brothers		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led the Lakota at the Battle of Little Bighorn.	Sitting Bull		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the Nez Perce leader who said I would fight no more forever.	Chief Joseph		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the 26th president and a Rough Rider.	Theodore Roosevelt		historical-figures-who-am-i
I founded Hull House in Chicago.	Jane Addams		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was president during World War I.	Woodrow Wilson		historical-figures-who-am-i
I flew solo across the Atlantic in 1927.	Charles Lindbergh		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was elected four times and started the New Deal.	Franklin D. Roosevelt		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first lady who worked for human rights.	Eleanor Roosevelt		historical-figures-who-am-i
I became president when FDR died in 1945 and ordered the atomic bombs used.	Harry S. Truman		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led Allied forces in Europe and became president in 1953.	Dwight D. Eisenhower		historical-figures-who-am-i
I refused to give up my bus seat in Montgomery.	Rosa Parks		historical-figures-who-am-i
I said 'I have a dream' at the March on Washington.	Martin Luther King Jr.		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first Black player in modern major league baseball.	Jackie Robinson		historical-figures-who-am-i
I integrated an elementary school in New Orleans at age six.	Ruby Bridges		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a young president, 35th, and faced the Cuban Missile Crisis.	John F. Kennedy		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first person to walk on the Moon.	Neil Armstrong		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first Black justice on the Supreme Court.	Thurgood Marshall		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first woman on the Supreme Court.	Sandra Day O'Connor		historical-figures-who-am-i
I organized farm workers with Dolores Huerta.	Cesar Chavez		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first American woman in space.	Sally Ride		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first Black president of the United States.	Barack Obama		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a Pakistani girl who became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner.	Malala Yousafzai		historical-figures-who-am-i
I discovered that germs cause disease and invented a way to make milk safer.	Louis Pasteur		historical-figures-who-am-i
I created the smallpox vaccine in 1796.	Edward Jenner		historical-figures-who-am-i
I discovered penicillin.	Alexander Fleming		historical-figures-who-am-i
I studied chimpanzees in Tanzania.	Jane Goodall		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote Silent Spring about pesticides.	Rachel Carson		historical-figures-who-am-i
I proposed that Earth moves around the Sun.	Nicolaus Copernicus		historical-figures-who-am-i
I described the planets' elliptical orbits.	Johannes Kepler		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote Pride and Prejudice.	Jane Austen		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist.	Charles Dickens		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.	Mark Twain		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote the Gettysburg Address.	Abraham Lincoln		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels.	Karl Marx		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote The Wealth of Nations.	Adam Smith		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote Common Sense in 1776.	Thomas Paine		historical-figures-who-am-i
I said 'Give me liberty, or give me death!'	Patrick Henry		historical-figures-who-am-i
I rode at night to warn that British troops were coming.	Paul Revere		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a Patriot spy who regretted having only one life to give.	Nathan Hale		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led the Continental Army at Valley Forge.	George Washington		historical-figures-who-am-i
I helped Jefferson draft the Declaration and became the second president.	John Adams		historical-figures-who-am-i
I asked my husband to 'remember the ladies.'	Abigail Adams		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a Wampanoag leader who made peace with the Pilgrims.	Massasoit		historical-figures-who-am-i
I taught the Pilgrims to plant corn.	Squanto		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a captain at Jamestown who said those who do not work do not eat.	John Smith		historical-figures-who-am-i
I founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker colony.	William Penn		historical-figures-who-am-i
I founded Rhode Island and believed in religious freedom.	Roger Williams		historical-figures-who-am-i
I created the Cherokee writing system.	Sequoyah		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a Cherokee leader who became principal chief in 1985.	Wilma Mankiller		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the Apache leader who resisted removal.	Geronimo		historical-figures-who-am-i
I led the Texans to victory at San Jacinto.	Sam Houston		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was Hawaii's last queen.	Queen Liliuokalani		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.	Harriet Beecher Stowe		historical-figures-who-am-i
I founded the Tuskegee Institute.	Booker T. Washington		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote about lynching and fought for justice as a journalist.	Ida B. Wells		historical-figures-who-am-i
I founded the first Montessori school in Rome.	Maria Montessori		historical-figures-who-am-i
I became deaf and blind as a baby and wrote books.	Helen Keller		historical-figures-who-am-i
I disappeared in 1937 while flying around the world.	Amelia Earhart		historical-figures-who-am-i
I won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics.	Jesse Owens		historical-figures-who-am-i
I wrote a diary while in hiding in Amsterdam.	Anne Frank		historical-figures-who-am-i
I cared for the poor in Kolkata and won a Nobel Peace Prize.	Mother Teresa		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was Britain's first woman prime minister.	Margaret Thatcher		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the Soviet leader who introduced glasnost.	Mikhail Gorbachev		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the Kenyan woman who started the Green Belt Movement.	Wangari Maathai		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was a NASA mathematician who checked orbit calculations for John Glenn.	Katherine Johnson		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first person in space.	Yuri Gagarin		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first American to orbit Earth.	John Glenn		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the first woman in space.	Valentina Tereshkova		historical-figures-who-am-i
I walked on the Moon with Neil Armstrong.	Buzz Aldrin		historical-figures-who-am-i
I was the Ethiopian emperor who defeated Italy at Adwa.	Menelik II		historical-figures-who-am-i