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Historical Figures: Who Am I?
Clues about famous people from around the world; guess who it is.
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- I ruled Egypt as a woman and sent ships to the land of Punt.ClueHatshepsut
- I built the Great Pyramid at Giza.ClueKhufu
- I wrote one of the first known law codes in Babylon.ClueHammurabi
- I taught by asking questions in Athens and was Plato's teacher.ClueSocrates
- I tutored Alexander the Great and wrote on logic, science and politics.ClueAristotle
- I conquered Persia and spread Greek culture to India's border.ClueAlexander the Great
- I crossed the Alps with elephants to attack Rome.ClueHannibal
- I led the Roman army in Gaul and was killed on the Ides of March.ClueJulius Caesar
- I became Rome's first emperor in 27 BCE.ClueAugustus
- I united China and began the Terra-cotta Army.ClueQin Shi Huang
- I was a teacher in China who stressed respect, learning and family.ClueConfucius
- I was a prince in India who became the Buddha.ClueSiddhartha Gautama
- I ruled the Maurya Empire and turned to peace after a bloody war.ClueAshoka
- I am the Prophet of Islam, born in Mecca.ClueMuhammad
- I was crowned emperor of the Romans in 800.ClueCharlemagne
- I won England at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.ClueWilliam the Conqueror
- I was a French teenager who led an army in 1429.ClueJoan of Arc
- I was a Mongol leader who built the largest land empire.ClueGenghis Khan
- I ruled Mali and made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.ClueMansa Musa
- I traveled to China and wrote about it in the 1200s.ClueMarco Polo
- I painted the Mona Lisa and sketched flying machines.ClueLeonardo da Vinci
- I painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and carved the David.ClueMichelangelo
- I printed Bibles with movable type in Europe around 1450.ClueJohannes Gutenberg
- I wrote 95 theses and began the Reformation.ClueMartin Luther
- I first sailed across the Atlantic for Spain in 1492.ClueChristopher Columbus
- My crew first sailed around the world, though I died on the way.ClueFerdinand Magellan
- I conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521.ClueHernan Cortes
- I was Queen of England during the Spanish Armada.ClueElizabeth I
- I wrote Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.ClueWilliam Shakespeare
- I used a telescope to see Jupiter's moons.ClueGalileo Galilei
- I explained gravity and the laws of motion.ClueIsaac Newton
- I was the Sun King of France.ClueLouis XIV
- I wrote that people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.ClueJohn Locke
- I led the Haitian Revolution.ClueToussaint Louverture
- I crowned myself emperor of the French in 1804 and lost at Waterloo.ClueNapoleon Bonaparte
- I led the fight for independence in northern South America.ClueSimon Bolivar
- I was the British queen for over 63 years and an era is named after me.ClueQueen Victoria
- I founded modern nursing in the Crimean War.ClueFlorence Nightingale
- I developed the theory of evolution by natural selection.ClueCharles Darwin
- I discovered radium and won two Nobel Prizes.ClueMarie Curie
- I developed the theory of relativity.ClueAlbert Einstein
- I led India to independence through nonviolence.ClueMahatma Gandhi
- I led Britain through most of World War II.ClueWinston Churchill
- I was a South African leader jailed for 27 years who became president.ClueNelson Mandela
- I led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.ClueVladimir Lenin
- I was the first president of the United States.ClueGeorge Washington
- I wrote the Declaration of Independence.ClueThomas Jefferson
- I flew a kite in a storm and signed the Constitution.ClueBenjamin Franklin
- I wrote most of the Federalist Papers and later became the fourth president.ClueJames Madison
- I was the first Treasury Secretary and later died in a duel.ClueAlexander Hamilton
- I guided Lewis and Clark.ClueSacagawea
- I was the seventh president and fought at New Orleans.ClueAndrew Jackson
- I was the Shawnee leader who built a Native alliance.ClueTecumseh
- I escaped slavery and led others on the Underground Railroad.ClueHarriet Tubman
- I escaped slavery, wrote an autobiography, and spoke against it.ClueFrederick Douglass
- I was president during the Civil War.ClueAbraham Lincoln
- I was the Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox.ClueRobert E. Lee
- I led the Union armies and became president.ClueUlysses S. Grant
- I founded the American Red Cross.ClueClara Barton
- I organized the Seneca Falls Convention.ClueElizabeth Cady Stanton
- I campaigned for women's right to vote and was arrested for voting in 1872.ClueSusan B. Anthony
- I invented the practical light bulb and the phonograph.ClueThomas Edison
- I patented the telephone in 1876.ClueAlexander Graham Bell
- We built and flew the first airplane at Kitty Hawk.ClueThe Wright brothers
- I led the Lakota at the Battle of Little Bighorn.ClueSitting Bull
- I was the Nez Perce leader who said I would fight no more forever.ClueChief Joseph
- I was the 26th president and a Rough Rider.ClueTheodore Roosevelt
- I founded Hull House in Chicago.ClueJane Addams
- I was president during World War I.ClueWoodrow Wilson
- I flew solo across the Atlantic in 1927.ClueCharles Lindbergh
- I was elected four times and started the New Deal.ClueFranklin D. Roosevelt
- I was the first lady who worked for human rights.ClueEleanor Roosevelt
- I became president when FDR died in 1945 and ordered the atomic bombs used.ClueHarry S. Truman
- I led Allied forces in Europe and became president in 1953.ClueDwight D. Eisenhower
- I refused to give up my bus seat in Montgomery.ClueRosa Parks
- I said 'I have a dream' at the March on Washington.ClueMartin Luther King Jr.
- I was the first Black player in modern major league baseball.ClueJackie Robinson
- I integrated an elementary school in New Orleans at age six.ClueRuby Bridges
- I was a young president, 35th, and faced the Cuban Missile Crisis.ClueJohn F. Kennedy
- I was the first person to walk on the Moon.ClueNeil Armstrong
- I was the first Black justice on the Supreme Court.ClueThurgood Marshall
- I was the first woman on the Supreme Court.ClueSandra Day O'Connor
- I organized farm workers with Dolores Huerta.ClueCesar Chavez
- I was the first American woman in space.ClueSally Ride
- I was the first Black president of the United States.ClueBarack Obama
- I was a Pakistani girl who became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner.ClueMalala Yousafzai
- I discovered that germs cause disease and invented a way to make milk safer.ClueLouis Pasteur
- I created the smallpox vaccine in 1796.ClueEdward Jenner
- I discovered penicillin.ClueAlexander Fleming
- I studied chimpanzees in Tanzania.ClueJane Goodall
- I wrote Silent Spring about pesticides.ClueRachel Carson
- I proposed that Earth moves around the Sun.ClueNicolaus Copernicus
- I described the planets' elliptical orbits.ClueJohannes Kepler
- I wrote Pride and Prejudice.ClueJane Austen
- I wrote A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist.ClueCharles Dickens
- I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.ClueMark Twain
- I wrote the Gettysburg Address.ClueAbraham Lincoln
- I wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels.ClueKarl Marx
- I wrote The Wealth of Nations.ClueAdam Smith
- I wrote Common Sense in 1776.ClueThomas Paine
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