Important People in World History (SOL WHI)

Who is the founder of Buddhism?

• Muhammad
• Jesus
• Siddartha Gautama
• Aryans

Asoka was a King from which civilization?

• Gupta
• Mongol
• Roman
• Mauryan

Who is the "Father of History"?

• Sophocles
• Homer
• Pericles
• Herodotus

What field did Pythagoras work in?

• Math
• Science
• Philosophy
• Drama

The golden age of Athens occurred under whose reign?

• Pericles
• Alexander
• Phidias
• Julius Caesar

Who was the Father of Medicine?

• Herodotus
• Hippocrates
• Phidias
• Pythagoras

Who had the Great Wall of China built?

• Emperor Wudi
• Emperor Shang
• Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi
• Emperor Chin

The spread of Buddhism from China and other parts of Asia was due to -

• Siddhartha Gautama's discovery of endless human suffering

• Qin Shi Huangdi's building of the Great Wall of China

• Askoa's missionaries and their writings

• Muhammad's pilgrimage to Mecca

Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, and Artemis are gods and goddesses important to what religion?

• Roman mythology

• Persian Zoroastrianism

• Greek mythology

• Indian Hinduism

Byzantine Emperor Justinian is best known for his -

• persecution of Christians

• declining administration

• contributions in literature

• codification of Roman law