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He is the Founded of Judaism.
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He ledes the Jews out of Egypt and received the Ten Commandments.
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He ledes Athens during its golden age, often called the Age of Pericles.
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He taught students to examine their beliefs and developed a questionand-answer method of teaching called the Socratic method.
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He wrote The Republic, in which he described his ideal society.
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He built an empire that included Greece, Persia, Egypt, and part of
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He summarized most knowledge up to his time and invented rules of logic that contributed to the modern scientific method.
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He expanded the Roman Empire.
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He is the founded of Christianity.
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He is the founded of Islam.
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He started the Reformation.
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he was a leader of the Enlightenment and promoted democratic
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Commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution and served as the first president of the United States.
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He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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He built a vast French empire and he is considered one of the world’s great military geniuses along with Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar.
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He leds the United States through the American Civil War.
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He is the founded the mass movements of democratic socialism and
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He became known as the “father of modern China” for leading a
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He helped India gain its independence from Great Britain by a method of nonviolent resistance.
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He is the founded the Communist Party in Russia and established the world’s first Communist Party dictatorship.
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He used terror to transform the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state and to modernize its economy.
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He initiated World War II and the Holocaust.
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He ledes the Communist revolution in China.
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He became the first black president of South Africa.
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He led the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.
