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Hammurabi
 created Hammurabi’s Code, a collection of 242
laws covering many areas of business and life
 expanded the Babylonian empire up and down the
Euphrates River
 united all of southern Mesopotamia
Chandragupta Maurya
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founder of the Mauryan Empire in ancient India
ruled his empire with a complex government
ruled all of northern India and much of the rest of
India
● had network of spies and a huge army of 600,000
soldiers
● had thousands of war elephants and chariots
Emperor Constantine
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Removed ban on Christianity in Rome
First Roman emperor to convert to Christianity
Founded city of Constantinople
Re-united the Roman Empire after many years of rulers
dividing the Roman empire
 The Christian Church recognizes him as St. Constantine for
all of his achievements and help to the Church
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Julius Caesar
Caesar was best known for being a Roman general
He was Consul, or the highest elected official in
Rome
He also became the first Roman general to cross
both the English Channel and the Rhine.
He was assassinated by Roman senators in the
senate
Menes
 united Upper and Lower Egypt
 wore a double crown to show his authority
 built the capital city of Memphis, the political and
cultural center of Egypt
Alexander the Great
● conquered Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, Phoenicia,
Judea, Gaza, Bactria, Mesopotamia, India, and
Punjab
● conquered and destroyed Thebes (a rebellious
Greek city-state)
● with the help of Persia, Alexander won the battle
against Sparta
Ramses II
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regarded as the greatest pharaoh of the Egyptian
empire
Ramses II led several military expeditions into the
Levant ,re-establishing Egyptian control over
Canaan
became a prince at 14
Shi Huangdi
 Shi Huangdi was the first Chinese emperor of the Qin
Dynasty.
 One of his accomplishments as ruler was ending the
Warring States Period and reuniting China in 221 B.C.
 He had the Great Wall of China built.
 Another one of his achievements was having statues of
a whole army of Terracotta soldiers made.
 One last accomplishment of Shi Huangdi was that he
had a canal built connecting Yangtze to central China.
Harriet Tubman
 she was an escaped slave
 she helped over 70 families and friends
escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad
 she worked for universal women’s suffrage
 she helped the Union Army during the Civil
War
Joe Louis
 was an American boxer known as “the Brown
Bomber”
 first African American to be called a national hero
in the United States
 was heavyweight boxing champ from 1937-1949
 held charity fights to benefit US Navy in WWII
 helped break the color barrier in professional golf
Thurgood Marshall
● first African-American justice on the U.S Supreme
Court Justice
● won Brown v. Board as a lawyer, a case that
ended racial segregation in public schools
● first African American named as Solicitor General
of the US, who represents the US in Supreme
Court Cases
Frederick Douglass
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abolitionist movement leader
social reformer, orator, writer, statesman
escaped slave
joined the Anti-American slavery society
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Best known for “I have a dream speech” in which
he spoke of racial equality
Martin Luther King Jr received the Nobel Peace
Prize in Oslo, Norway
Leader of the Civil Rights movement
Assassinated in April 1968
Jackie Robinson
● Hall of Fame baseball player
● First African American in Major League Baseball
● he won many awards, including Rookie of the
Year and Most Valuable Player
● In his honor #42 is retired in all of MLB. No one
will ever wear this number again
Rosa Parks
● On December 1, 1995, Rosa parks refused to give
up her seat on the bus to a white person. She was
soon arrested and charged with violation.
● Helped lead the bus boycott with Dr. King
● In 1992, Parks wrote a book about her life in the
South. In 1995, she published “Quiet Strength”,
which includes her memoirs and focuses on God’s
strong impact on her life.
Althea Gibson
● was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of
Fame
● also inducted into the International Women’s Sport
Hall of Fame
● won Wimbledon and U. S. National in 1957
● first African American to win a Grand Slam
tournament, the French Open in 1956
Apollo Moon Landing
 Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 21, 1969
 Neil Armstrong said, “One small step for man, one
giant leap for mankind.”
 Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were
the astronauts
Pearl Harbor
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December 7, 1941
Japan made a surprise attack on the USA
the attack brought the USA into WWII
2403 US soldiers were killed
Attack on Fort Sumter
● Located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
● April 12, 1861
● Start of Civil War
Jamestown
● King James I granted a charter to the Virginia
Company to form a settlement in North America
after the failure of Roanoke
● Roughly 100 colonists left in late December 1606
on the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the
Discovery and arrived at Chesapeake Bay late
next April
● landed on narrow peninsula in the James River on
May 14, 1607
● First permanent English colony in North America
Christopher Columbus
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Sailed the ocean blue in 1492 - the Atlantic Ocean
famous for attempted trip to Asia by sailing west from Europe
“discovered” America
sailed for Spain
Marco Polo Returns from Asia
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Known as a European traveler to China and the Far East
Marco had traveled across the Great Gobi Desert to get to
China
The Polo’s traveled home in ships that carried a princess
who was engaged to prince in Iran.
Inspired other Europeans to find shorter route to Asia
and the Indies
Declaration of Independence
● Signed July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia
● Listed reasons for America’s separation from
Great Britain
● Written by Thomas Jefferson
THE MAGNA CARTA
 was a series of written promises between the king
and his people
 signed in June 1215
 attempt by the barons to stop the kings abuse
their power
 became one of the most important documents of
Medieval England
 inspiration for future documents and ideas about
governments
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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youngest president when elected at 35 years old
first Catholic president
set goal to put man on the moon
prevented nuclear was in Cuban Missile Crisis
established Peace Corps
commander of torpedo boat during WW2
Andrew Jackson
Became the 7th president of the United States in
1829 and served for 8 years.
He fought in the Revolutionary War and the War
of 1812.
He was a strict officer during the War of 1812
and was nicknamed “Old Hickory”.
His face is on the 20 dollar bill.
Enforced the Indian Removal Act
George Washington
● chairperson of the meeting in Virginia that adopted the
Fairfax Resolves, which disputed the King’s authority
over the 13 colonies
● leader of Continental Army in the Revolutionary War
● president of the Constitutional Convention
● first President of the United States
● Created the first United States cabinet
Theodore Roosevelt
● lieutenant colonel during the Spanish-American
War, led battle of San Juan
● 26th president of the United States
● ensured the construction of the Panama Canal
● won the Nobel Peace Prize by negotiating an
agreement in the Russo-Japanese War
● created the U.S. Forest Service to protect wildlife
and public lands
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Thomas Jefferson
He wrote the Declaration of Independence
He was the 3rd president
Responsible for the Louisiana Purchase
2nd vice-president
Franklin D. Roosevelt
● President who lead America through WWII
● Created the Fair Labor Standards Act
● He created the CWA, which created jobs during
the Great Depression
● Assistant Secretary of the Navy during WWI
● Had polio
Abraham Lincoln
● Was president during the Civil War.
● He issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing
Southern slaves during the Civil War
● Pushed for the passing of the 13 Amendment
which abolished slavery
● Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
James Madison
● James Madison wrote the first draft of the
Constitution.
● He established the Democratic-Republican Party
with President Thomas Jefferson.
● In 1808, James Madison became the fourth
President of the United States.
● President during the War of 1812