Historical Events and Figures #4

Given the description, name the event or person.

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Description	Answer
Best known for her works in science fiction like "The Left Hand of Darkness"	Urusula K. Le Guin
Suffrage leader who ran for President in 1872	Victoria Woodhall
Figureskater who won gold medals at the Olympics in 1992	Kristi Yamaguchi
Prince of Kiev who started the Russian Empire	Alexander Nevsky
Wealthy ruler who would become queen of France and England	Eleanor of Aquitaine
Mongol founded region which eventually ruled itself and became Turkish	Golden Horde
Moroccan explorer who traveled across most of the medieval world	Ibn Battuta
Icelandic saga which follows the family of Egil	Egil's Saga
The largest of the four caliphates of Mohammed's death	Umayyad Caliphate
Female ruler of China in the Zhao dynasty	Wu-Zetian

Description	Answer
German politician who created communist East Germany	Erich Honecker
Soviet leader after Khrushchev who led for 18 years	Leonid Brezhnev
Leader of the Soviet Union that led the de-Stalinization effort	Nikita Khrushchev
Tsar of Russia who had a drama written about him by Pushkin	Boris Godunov
Rebellion of soldiers who protested the ruling of Nicholas I	Decembrist Revolt
Russian film director that did silent films and historical films	Sergei Eisenstein
Major battle during the Pugachev revolt that saw the rebels defeat government soldiers	Battle of Kazan
Russian abstract painter who had works like "Black Square"	Kazimir Malevich
Eisenstein film about a group of sailors mutinying which helped the communist revoltuion	Battleship Potemkin
Former president of Uganda who committed a number of atrocities	Idi Amin