Historical Figures

Match these famous Romans.

• Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar

• Julius Caesar

• murdered by Senators on Ides of March

• Romulus and Remus

• twins who founded Rome

• 2nd Triumvirate

• Octavian, Lepidus, and Marc Antony

• Augustus Caesar
• 1st Roman Emperor during Pax Romana

• 1st Triumvirate

Match the famous Romans.

• wrote the Aeneid

• Virgil
• 2nd Triumvirate & allied with Cleopatra

• Ptolemy

• astronomer, astrologer, and geographer

• Constantine

• emperor who legalized Christianity

• Julius Caesar

• declared himself dictator for life

• Marc Antony

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

• Hippocrates

• Thucydides

• Aristotle

• Archimedes

• Socrates

• Sophocles

• Plato

• Aeschylus

• Herodotus

Match the famous Renaissance authors with their creations.

• known for sonnets & humanist scholarship

• Petrarch

• author of Praise of Folly

• Erasmus

• author of the Prince

• Sir Thomas More
• author of Utopia

• Machiavelli

Match the famous men and their contribution to history.

• first King of Persian Empire

• Hannibal

• called for first crusade in a speech

• Ivan the Great
• Russian leader: threw off the Mongols

• Cyrus the Great

• spread Hellenistic culture to India

• Alexander the Great

• Carthage general defeated Romans

• Pope Urban II

Match the famous peoples with their contributions to history.

• won Battle of Hastings uniting England

• William the Conqueror

• Muhammad's son-in-law and caliph

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Byzantine monk created Cyrillic alphabet

• Ali

• inventor: printing press

• Joan of Arc

• peasant girl lead France 100 Years' War

• St. Cyril

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

• Spanish rule reached height in Americas

• Henry II

• common law began in England

• Charles V

• centered throne in Paris

• Ferdinand and Isabella

• expelled Muslim Moors from Spain

• Hugh Capet
• signed the Magna Carta

• King John

Match these kings with their contributions to history.

• King of Macedonia conquered all Greece

• Saladin

• muslim Sultan who recaptured Jerusalem

• Philip II
• created the 1st written code of laws

• Hammurabi

• King of Axum converted to Christianity

• Ezana

• expanded gold trade and adopted Islam

• Mansa Musa

Match the famous Greeks.

• general during golden age of Athens

• Draco and Solon

• poet/author of Iliad and Odyssey

• Pericles

• mathematicians

• Phidias

• tyrants of early Athens

• Euclid and Pythagoras

• famous sculptor

• Homer

Match these famous emperors with their contribution to history.

• legalized Christianity in Rome

• Justinian I

• First emperor of China built Great Wall

• Constantine

• ruled Byzantine Empire during Golden Age

• Augustus Caesar

• first emperor of Rome during Pax Romana

• Charlamagne

• crowned Holy Roman Emperor by a pope

• Qin Shi Huangdi