| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Homer | wrote Illiad and Odyssey |
| Socrates | developed the Socratic Method; questioning people until they contradicted themselves |
| Plato | Socrates student; first male to say that men and women are equal |
| Aristotle | Student of Plato; one of the greatest minds in the world |
| Alexander the Great | Student of Aristotle; never lost a battle- eqyptian pharoph |
| William the conqueror | last successfull invador of the British Islands |
| Joan of Ark | People thought she could talk to god; "National hero of France" |
| Julius Caesar | known for carisma; successfully takes over the Roman Empire |
| Cleopatra VII | "Glory of her race", wore make-up |
| Augustus Caesar | One of the best leaders |
| Simone Bolivar | "George Washington of South Africa" |
| Atilla the Hun | leader of Mongela Tribe; ruled over Eastern European |
| Johann Gutenberg | invented the printing press |
| Queen Isabella I | launched the Inquisition and ended it; funded Christopher Columbus |
| christopher Columbus | not a great navigator or sailor; arrested by the Spanish |
| Nicolas Copernicus | said that the " Earth is moving around the sun" |
| Galileo Galilei | deceloped the Scientific process; lived under house arrest for most of his life |
| Rene Descartes | french; invented anolidic geometry; came up with the idea of x and y axis |
| Isaac Newton | picked up where Galileo left off; invented Calculus; first scientist to be buried in West Minister Abbey |
| Charles Darwin | british; studied the Gallapagos islands; Evolution through Natural Selection |
| leonardo da Vinci | sketched futuristic machinary; only 20 paintings |
| michelangelo buonarolti | lived during the same time as da vinci; hated painting; poet, writer; sculptor; painter |
| Charles Babbage | credited with the idea of a computer |
| Jesus Christ | foundation of Christianity |
| Martin Luther | protestant Reformation- the split between Catholicism and future Christian denomination |
| Moses | Led the Jewish people out of slavery in Egypt and to the promised land |
| Niccolo machiavelli | Italian; wrote the Prince |
| St, Thomas More | author of eutopia; refused to help Henry the 8th get married and divorced multiple times |
| Buddha | Prince in India |
| Lao Tzu | Tao Lou Ching- if he exhisted he wrote it; Ying Yang |
| Muhammad | started islam |
| UMar ibn al-Khattab | became one of Muhammad's must trusted advisor; conquers Jersulaem; united the Arab empire |
| Alfred Nobel | russian; invented dynamite; left his money to become the Nobel Prize |
| Jean Henri Dunant | first nobel peace prize winner |
| Karl Marx | father of communism- the concepts |
| Rembrant van Rijn | known as the best Dutch artist of all time |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Impressionist; currently the best selling artist of worldwide |
| Claude Monet | started impressionism; could see 50 different shades of blues |
| pablo picasso | 20000-40000 pieces of artwork; blue period, rose period, serealism,cubism |
| Golda Meir | fundraiser to create Istrael, 1st women leader in the middle east |
| John Locke | believed people's brains were a blank slate and that enviroment would shape it; life liberty, health and possessions |
| Albert Einstein | theory of reletivety; E=MCsquared |
| jean Jacques Rousseau | swiss; philosopher; wrote the Social Contract and Emelii |
| Benazir Bhutto | first female prime minister in the Islamic World; Pakistan |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of Nazis; wrote Mein Kampf |
| Mohandas Ghandi | father of India; non-violent resistance against the British; major political and religious leader |
| Peter the Great | brought Russia out of Mediecal times; czar of Russia |
| Marie Curie | Polish; scientist; famous for work with radioactivity; won two Nobel peace prizes |
| Sigmund Freud | father of physociology; talks about conscious and unconscious; everything is related to sex |
| lenin | responsible for Communism in Russia; first man to think of concentration camps and labor camps |
| Josph Stalin | most evil man in history; killed 20-30 million; "a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Ended Communism in russia |
| Mother Teresa | hated publicity; wona Nobel Peace Prize; known as the "ultimate Giver" |
| Wernher von Braun | rockets; major helper in space; led the Americans to the moon with his creation of the rocket booster |
| Eva Peron | First lady of Argentina; voting rights for women, education |
| Meiji Tenno | emporer or Japan; Westernized it |
| Genghis Khan | name means universal leader; ultimate warrior |
| Confucius | first great Chinese philosopher; obligations to family |
| Ts'ai Lun | eunich- worked in the government; made paper |
| Shih Huang Ti | first great emperor; built great wall; ordered all books in China to be burned |
| Mao Tse-Tung | ruled more people than anybody ecer has; turned China Communist; wrote the thoughts of Chairman Mao |
| Queen Elizabeth I | known as the most beloved queen; not the leader of the most land, but she set the framework for it |
| Empress Tzu-His | not very productive empress of china |
| Napolean Bonaparte | took over the French military then overtook the government and became emporer- great stratijist, horrible emporer |
| Nelson Mandela | became a symbol against aparthid |
| william Shakespeare | quoted more than any author ever; all his plays are about humans and can by translated to any time period |
| Stephen Hawking | known as the smartet man alive; has ALS, confined to a wheelchair, crippled and cant speak |
| Winston Churchill | Prime minister of Great Britain during WWII |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | first fighter for women's rights |
| Margaret Thatcher | first female prime minister of England |
| Queen Victoria | Ruled Great Britain queen for 64 years; wore black for 40 years after husband died |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Earlist of the three composers; mastered the skill of counterpoint; superb organ player |
| W. Amadeus Mozart | the most talented of teh three great composers; starting writing at age 4 |
| Ludwig Van Beethoven | Very passionate about music; changed the rules of music; was deaf |
| Richard Wagner | German; most famous opera creater; said "Human voice is the greatest instrument" |
| Margret Sanger | Birth control |
| Louis Pasteur | Most important person in history of medicine |
| Aldo Leopold | founder of the enviromental movement |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Greatest architect ever; most famous- Falling Water |
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