100 People (1st 20)
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- Founder of Islam
- Muhammad
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Developed theory of gravitation
Described laws of motion - Sir Isaac Newton
- Founder of Christianity
- Jesus Christ
- Founder of Buddhism
- Gautama Buddha
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Chinese philosopher
Founder of Confucianism - Confucius
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Disciple of Jesus
Wrote much of New Testament - St. Paul, Paul (Saul) of Tarsus
- Inventor of paper
- Ts'ai Lun
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Developer of printing press
Invented movable type - Johann Gutenberg
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Explorer
Sailed from Europe to North America - Christopher Columbus
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Developed theory of relativity
Described photoelectric effect - Albert Einstein
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Developed pasteurization process
Created rabies vaccine - Louis Pasteur
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Astronomer
Invented telescope - Galileo Galilei
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Greek philosopher
Tutored Alexander the Great - Aristotle
- Father of geometry
- Euclid
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Delivered Ten Commandments to Jews
Led Jews out of Egypt - Moses
- Described theory of evolution by natural selection
- Charles Darwin
- First emperor of China
- Shih Huang Ti
- First Roman emperor
- Augustus Caesar
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Astronomer
Created heliocentric model of world - Nicolaus Copernicus
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Father of modern chemistry
Designed metric system - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier