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

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