Historical Figures

Match these famous Romans.

• 1st Roman Emperor during Pax Romana

• Romulus and Remus

• Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar

• Julius Caesar

• murdered by Senators on Ides of March

• 1st Triumvirate

• twins who founded Rome

• 2nd Triumvirate

• Octavian, Lepidus, and Marc Antony

• Augustus Caesar

Match the famous Romans.

• declared himself dictator for life

• Marc Antony

• emperor who legalized Christianity

• Julius Caesar

• 2nd Triumvirate & allied with Cleopatra

• Constantine

• astronomer, astrologer, and geographer

• Virgil
• wrote the Aeneid

• 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

• Archimedes

• Plato

• Aeschylus

• Sophocles

• Hippocrates

• Thucydides

• Aristotle

• Herodotus

• Socrates

Match the famous Renaissance authors with their creations.

• author of Utopia

• Machiavelli

• author of Praise of Folly

• Petrarch

• author of the Prince

• Sir Thomas More
• known for sonnets & humanist scholarship

• Erasmus

Match the famous men and their contribution to history.

• Russian leader: threw off the Mongols

• Hannibal

• spread Hellenistic culture to India

• Alexander the Great

• Carthage general defeated Romans

• Pope Urban II

• called for first crusade in a speech

• Ivan the Great
• first King of Persian Empire

• Cyrus the Great

Match the famous peoples with their contributions to history.

• won Battle of Hastings uniting England

• Joan of Arc

• Byzantine monk created Cyrillic alphabet

• Johannes Gutenberg

• inventor: printing press

• Ali

• Muhammad's son-in-law and caliph

• St. Cyril

• peasant girl lead France 100 Years' War

• William the Conqueror

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

• signed the Magna Carta

• King John

• centered throne in Paris

• Charles V

• common law began in England

• Ferdinand and Isabella

• Spanish rule reached height in Americas

• Henry II

• expelled Muslim Moors from Spain

• Hugh Capet

Match these kings with their contributions to history.

• expanded gold trade and adopted Islam

• Saladin

• King of Axum converted to Christianity

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

• Hammurabi

• King of Macedonia conquered all Greece

• Ezana

• muslim Sultan who recaptured Jerusalem

• Mansa Musa

Match the famous Greeks.

• poet/author of Iliad and Odyssey

• Euclid and Pythagoras

• tyrants of early Athens

• Draco and Solon

• mathematicians

• Phidias

• general during golden age of Athens

• Pericles

• famous sculptor

• Homer

Match these famous emperors with their contribution to history.

• legalized Christianity in Rome

• Charlamagne

• First emperor of China built Great Wall

• Constantine

• ruled Byzantine Empire during Golden Age

• Justinian I

• crowned Holy Roman Emperor by a pope

• Augustus Caesar

• first emperor of Rome during Pax Romana

• Qin Shi Huangdi