Important People

Robert Peary
The first person who claimed was the first to get the north pole.

Edmund Hillary
The first person to get to the top of Mount Everest.

Davy Crockett
Served as a solider in the Texas Revolution and died in the Battle of the Alamo, and represented Tennessee in the U.S. house or representatives.

Daniel Boone
A militia officer in the Revolutionary War, and founded Kentucky.

Yuri Gagarin
Is the first person to go into space and orbit the Earth.

Chuck Yaeger
A retired general in the US Air Force and noted test pilot, and he broke the sound burier.

John Glenn
Orbited the Earth in the year 1962 with 7.

Neil Armstrong
The first person to set foot on the moon
Robert Peary

Amelia Earhart
was the first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean solo, she also tried to fly all the way around the world but in stead she went missing half way through the process.

Lewis & Clark
Two famous explorers that crossed America with the help of Sacajawea because of the Louisiana Purchase.

Alan Shepard
The second person in space and first American.

Thomas Edison
Invented tin foil phonograph.

Henry Ford
Invented the Ford truck

Wright Brothers
Made the first airplane that flew.


SCIENTISTS-ANCIENT

Hippocrates- was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and was considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the “father of medicine”.

Galileo-was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.

Johannes Gutenberg-was a German goldsmith and printer who is credited with being the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439, and the global inventor of the mechanical printing press.

Nicolaus Copernicus-was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.

WORLD LEADERS - ANCIENT

Ghengis Khan-was the founder, Khan and Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history.

Alexander the Great-was an Ancient Greek king of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history, born in Pella in 356 BC.

Julius Caesar-was a Roman military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

King Arthur-is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century.

Attila the Hun-was the Emperor of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea.