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Important Figures in History #1 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 39 times
- The average score is 9 of 29
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| What they did... | Who they were... | % Correct |
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| Father of Christianity; Considered the "Son of God" | Jesus Christ | 88%
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| Student of Socrates; Ancient Greek philosopher and playwrite | Plato | 82%
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| A Macedonian general that formed one of the largest land-based empires of its time; Named a lot of cities after him; Spread Hellenism across the Middle East and North Africa | Alexander the Great | 70%
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| A Venetian who travelled the Silk Road to Yuan China; Wrote about the courts in his log | Marco Polo | 58%
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| Considered the father of the three main monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | Abraham | 55%
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| Founder of Islam; The first caliph of the series of Islamic caliphates | Mohammed | 55%
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| Leader and general of the largest land based empire in history; After he died his empire split into four khanates | Genghis Khan | 52%
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| First Holy Roman Emperor; Frankish | Charlemagne | 45%
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| Leader of the Yuan (Mongolian) dynasty in China; Son of the above person | Kublai Khan | 42%
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| Founder of the Benedictine monks (Hint!) ; Helped spread Christianity; One of the patron saints of Catholicism | St. Benedict | 42%
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| After the division of the Roman Empire, this person took control of the Eastern portion; Made the capital what is now Istanbul | Constantine | 39%
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| Mesopotamian King; Created a famous code of laws that emphasized harsh but fair punishment; "Eye for an eye" | Hammurabi | 39%
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| Founder of the main state religion in China; Dubbed after his namesake; Emphasized respecting elders and strict familial roles; Filial piety | Confucius | 36%
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| A Sumerian king; Considered legend in Mesopotamian mythology; Had an epic written about | Gilgamesh | 33%
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| Founder of possibly the oldest monotheistic religion in history; The religion is dubbed after his namesake | Zoroaster | 30%
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| One of, if not the richest man ever to live; A Mali king | Mansa Musa | 27%
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| Tried to make Buddhism the state religion of India during the Mauryan dyansty (Hint!) | Ashoka Maurya | 21%
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| Founder of the first Persian empire; Also called the Achaemenid Empire | Cyrus of Persia | 21%
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| Founder of Taoism; Emphasized individualism | Lao Tzu | 12%
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| Considered the first Chinese emperor; United the Warring States of China; Started the Great Wall; Endorsed legalism | Qin Shihuangdi | 12%
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| A Muslim scholar that travelled the Islamic world, documenting the places and the people that he travelled to | Ibn Battuta | 9%
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| Islamic Chinese admiral; Led voyages throughout the Indian Ocean to establish trade routes with other nations | Zheng He | 9%
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| Leader of the Abbasid caliphate during its golden age; Replaced the Ummayad caliphate | Harun al-Rashid | 3%
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| The Buddha's real identity; Founder of Buddhism | Siddhartha Guatama | 3%
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| Lit himself on fire to protest Buddhist persecution in India; Was a Buddhist monk himself | Thich Quang Duc | 3%
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| Author of "The Tale of Genji" one of the earliest written novels in history | Lady Murasaki | 0%
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| Founder of the Incan empire from the kingdom of Cusco | Pachakuti | 0%
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| Led the Mesopotamian city-state of Ur; Founded one of the oldest recorded law codes in history | Ur-Nammu | 0%
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| Helped solidify Buddhism in China; Travelled to India to reconnect with Buddhist origins and wrote a book | Xuanzang | 0%
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