Influentials 51-75

Question 1

john Calvin

Answer 1

challenges and questions luthers teachings with predestination, Calvinism

Question 2

Leif Ericsson

Answer 2

first European to reach North America even before Christopher Columbus

Question 3

Peter the great

Answer 3

establish Russia as a great nation

Question 4

Attila the Hun

Answer 4

leader of Huns and ruler of Hunnic empire, contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire

Question 5

Mao Zedong

Answer 5

communism in China, led China’s communist revolution, chinese communist party

Question 6

Confucius

Answer 6

chinese philosopher, Confucianism, self discipline

Question 7

johann Gutenberg

Answer 7

invented the printing press

Question 8

Louis Pasteur

Answer 8

pasteurization, vaccine for anthrax and rabies

Question 9

Nelson Mandela

Answer 9

first black president in South Africa, armed resistance movement, bring peace to South Africa by declaring it a republic and withdrawing from the British commonwealth

Question 10

shih huang ti

Answer 10

creator of the first unified chinese empire (chin dynasty) began work of the Great Wall

Question 11

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 11

first to observe bacteria and Protozoa, lay foundations for bacteriology and protozoology

Question 12

Guglielmo Marconi

Answer 12

first successful long distance wireless telegraph and broadcast the first transatlantic radio signal

Question 13

Oliver Cromwell

Answer 13

organized armed forces after the civil war, destroyed main royalist force at the 1645 battle of naseby

Question 14

john locke

Answer 14

natural rights, two treatises of govt, tabula rasa, Declaration of Independence

Question 15

Simon bolivar

Answer 15

resistance movement, Spanish American fight for independence “republic of Bolivia”

Question 16

pope urban II

Answer 16

head of Roman Catholic Church, crusade movement, strengthened papacy

Question 17

Gregor Mendel

Answer 17

father of modern genetics, basic principles of heredity, traits (pea plants)

Question 18

Edwards Jenner

Answer 18

smallpox vaccine and father of immunology

Question 19

Lao tzu

Answer 19

first philosopher of chinese daoism, Tang Dynasty

Question 20

Johannes Kepler

Answer 20

laws of planetary motion, elliptical universe

Question 21

nicoli Machiavelli

Answer 21

father of modern political theory, the prince

Question 22

vasco da gama

Answer 22

first person to sail directly from Europe to India

Question 23

mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 23

first president of Soviet Union, ended Cold War/communism

Question 24

Cai Lun

Answer 24

inventor of paper, chinese court official

Question 25

Moses

Answer 25

Hebrew prophet, parted the Red Sea, accepted 10 commandments at mount Sinai