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30 Historical People from World History
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What famous person is thought to have written the Ten Commandments?
Moses
Jesus
Akhenaten
Abraham
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What famous person led India to gain independence from the British Empire?
Buddha
Ashoka
Nelson Mandela
Ghandi
3
What famous person was the founder of Islam?
Mohammed
Ashoka
Confucius
Suleiman
4
What famous person was able to attack and conquer England in 1066?
Alexander the Great
Adolf Hitler
Charlemagne
William the Conqueror
5
What famous person signed the Magna Carta?
King George
Constantine
King John
King Richard
6
What famous person was the first major Greek philosopher?
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
Marcus Aurelius
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What famous person was the First Chinese Emperor?
Shi Huang Di
Empress Wu
Lao-Tzu
Liu Bang
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What famous person proved the earth was not the center of the universe?
Galileo
Henry the Navigator
Aristotle
Martin Luther
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What famous person created the Communist government in post WWII China?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Shi Huang Di
Liu Bang
Mao Tse-tung
10
What famous person started the Protestant Reformation in Europe?
Pope Urban II
Inigo Loyola
John Calvin
Martin Luther
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What famous person changed the Indian religion to Buddhism?
Gupta
Buddha
Ashoka
Mandela
12
What famous person was the Athenian leader during the first part of the Peloponnesian War?
Homer
Socrates
Pericles
Plato
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What famous person led South Africa in ending Apartheid?
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Buddha
Ghandi
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What famous person started the Confucian philosophy in China?
Lao Tzu
Genghis Khan
Buddha
Confucius
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What famous person was the first Holy Roman Emperor
King John
Augustus
Charlemagne
Constantine
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What famous person is thought to have started Taoism?
Lao-Tzu
Confucius
Shi Huang Di
Liu Bang
17
What famous person created a harsh law code used for a millennium in the Ancient Middle East?
Shi Huang Di
Ashoka
Hammurabi
Liu Bang
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What famous person legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire?
Constantine
Jesus
Charlemagne
Julius Caesar
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What famous person was the rich African king who converted to Islam?
Mansa Musa
King Watusi
Mohammed
King T'challa
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What famous person was the most important Chinese explorer?
Wang Chung
Wu Di
Kang Tang
Zheng He
21
What famous person was the first Mesopotamian to create an Empire?
Hammurabi
Tutankhamen
Sargon
Akhenaten
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What famous person was crucified by Romans for his teachings?
Moses
Tiberius
Marcus Brutus
Jesus
23
What famous person was the first European to sail around Africa?
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Marco Polo
Francis Drake
24
What famous person called for all of Europe to go on the First Crusade?
King Richard the Lionheart
Pope Urban II
Pope Leo III
King John of England
25
What famous person was able to successfully conquer most of Asia in the Medieval time period?
Alexander the Great
Genghis Khan
Charlemagne
Suleiman the Magnificent
26
What famous person conquered the Persian Empire, causing the Hellenistic Age to begin?
Charlemagne
Hannibal
Napoleon
Alexander
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What famous person's death ended the Roman Republic?
Julius Caesar
Commodus
Marcus Aurelius
Augustus Caesar
28
What famous person was the first European to publicly sail to the American continents?
Zheng He
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortes
Vasco Da Gama
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What famous person changed the Egyptian religion to Monotheism?
Ramses II
Tutankhamen
Akhenaten
Hatshepsut
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What famous person was the creator and first emperor of the Roman Empire?
Marcus Brutus
Augustus Caesar
Commodus
Julius Caesar
