Famous People #2Peter the

GreatMaximilien Robespierre

Zheng He Mao Zedong Prince Henry the

Navigator

Machiavelli Siddhartha Gautama

Mikhail Gorbachev

Winston Churchill

Saddam Hussein

Mohandas Gandhi

Thomas Hobbes

Oliver Cromwell

Louis XVI Nelson Mandela

Vladimir Lenin

Mansa Musa Richard the Lion-

Hearted

Mustafa Kemal

Simon Bolivar

Meiji Emperor

Mutsuhito

Saladin Napoleon Bonaparte

Toussaint

L’Ouverture

Martin Luther

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1q

He Westernized Russia. Gained a warm water port.

1a

Peter the Great

2q

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Led France during Reign of Terror after the French

Revolution.

2a

Maximilien Robespierre

3q

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Seven voyages of exploration for

China.

3a

Zheng He

4q

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Led Chinese Communist revolution.

4a

Mao Zedong

5q

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Led Portuguese explorers. Kept logs

of explorations.

5a

Prince Henry the Navigator

6q

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Gave advice to Italian princes. “The end

justifies the means.”

6a

Machiavelli

7q

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Hindu prince. Founder of Buddhism.

7a

Siddhartha Gautama

8q

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Restructured the Soviet Union politically and

economically.

8a

Mikhail Gorbachev

9q

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British Prime Minister during World War II

9a

Winston Churchill

10q

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Iraq leader. Invaded Kuwait. Overthrown

by the U.S.

10a

Saddam Hussein

11q

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Led non-violent protest against British rule in

India.

11a

Mohandas Gandhi

12q

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Believed people exchange freedom for security. Social

contract.

12a

Thomas Hobbes

13q

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Leader of the Roundheads.

Overthrew British monarchy.

13a

Oliver Cromwell

14q

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French monarch. Beheaded after the French Revolution.

14a

Louis XVI

15q

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Protested against apartheid policies of South Africa. Released from jail, voted

into Presidency.

15a

Nelson Mandela

16q

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Led Russian Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution.

16a

Vladimir Lenin

17q

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Mali ruler. Muslim. Gave away gold on his Pilgrimage to

Mecca.

17a

Mansa Musa

18q

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Leader of the Third Crusade. British

king.

18a

Richard the Lion-Hearted

19q

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Westernized Turkey.

19a

Mustafa Kemal

Ataturk

20q

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Nationalist leader of South American

independence movement.

20a

Simon Bolivar

21q

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Japanese emperor who reformed

Japan.

21a

Emperor Meiji

22q

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Leader of Ottoman Empire. Fought against

crusaders.

22a

Saladin

23q

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French dictator who attempted to conquer all of

Europe.

23a

Napoleon Bonaparte

24q

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Haitian slave who revolted against French

rule.

24a

Toussaint L’Overture

25q

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Monk who protested Catholic policies. Posted 95 Theses.

25a

Martin Luther