Historical Figures

Match these famous Romans.

• twins who founded Rome

• Romulus and Remus

• 1st Roman Emperor during Pax Romana

• 1st Triumvirate

• Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar

• Augustus Caesar
• murdered by Senators on Ides of March

• Julius Caesar

• Octavian, Lepidus, and Marc Antony

• 2nd Triumvirate

Match the famous Romans.

• astronomer, astrologer, and geographer

• Virgil
• wrote the Aeneid

• Marc Antony

• declared himself dictator for life

• Julius Caesar

• 2nd Triumvirate & allied with Cleopatra

• Constantine

• emperor who legalized Christianity

• Ptolemy

Place these famous Greeks in the correct column.

Groups:

(a) Philosophers

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(b) Playwrites

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(c) Scientists

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(d) Historians

• Aeschylus

• Aristotle

• Sophocles

• Hippocrates

• Plato

• Thucydides

• Archimedes

• Socrates

• Herodotus

Match the famous Renaissance authors with their creations.

• author of the Prince

• Erasmus

• known for sonnets & humanist scholarship

• Petrarch

• author of Praise of Folly

• Machiavelli

• author of Utopia

• Sir Thomas More

Match the famous men and their contribution to history.

• Carthage general defeated Romans

• Hannibal

• spread Hellenistic culture to India

• Cyrus the Great

• called for first crusade in a speech

• Ivan the Great
• first King of Persian Empire

• Pope Urban II

• Russian leader: threw off the Mongols

• Alexander the Great

Match the famous peoples with their contributions to history.

• Muhammad's son-in-law and caliph

• Ali

• Byzantine monk created Cyrillic alphabet

• St. Cyril

• won Battle of Hastings uniting England

• William the Conqueror

• inventor: printing press

• Joan of Arc

• peasant girl lead France 100 Years' War

• Johannes Gutenberg

Match these famous kings and queens to their contributions to history.

• expelled Muslim Moors from Spain

• Hugh Capet
• centered throne in Paris

• King John

• signed the Magna Carta

• Ferdinand and Isabella

• Spanish rule reached height in Americas

• Henry II

• common law began in England

• Charles V

Match these kings with their contributions to history.

• muslim Sultan who recaptured Jerusalem

• Ezana

• created the 1st written code of laws

• Hammurabi

• King of Axum converted to Christianity

• Mansa Musa

• expanded gold trade and adopted Islam

• Philip II
• King of Macedonia conquered all Greece

• Saladin

Match the famous Greeks.

• mathematicians

• Pericles

• general during golden age of Athens

• Phidias

• tyrants of early Athens

• Euclid and Pythagoras

• famous sculptor

• Homer
• poet/author of Iliad and Odyssey

• Draco and Solon

Match these famous emperors with their contribution to history.

• ruled Byzantine Empire during Golden Age

• Qin Shi Huangdi
• legalized Christianity in Rome

• Charlamagne

• first emperor of Rome during Pax Romana

• Justinian I

• First emperor of China built Great Wall

• Constantine

• crowned Holy Roman Emperor by a pope

• Augustus Caesar