1. Famous!!
Europeans
(and a few Russians)

2. 9th century emperor of the Frankish Empire and Holy Roman Empire
Charlemagne

3. Before modern nations

4. Traveled from Italy to China
in the 13th century
Marco
Polo

6. 15th century French teenage girl who had religious visions and was chosen to lead the French army. Captured and executed at age 19.
Joan of Arc

7. Ferdinand and Isabella
15th century Spanish king and queen who funded Columbus’s expeditions.
Ferdinand and Isabella

8. (First landed in the Bahamas)
Four Journeys
(First landed in the Bahamas)

9. French king who was executed during the French revolution (1793)
Louis 16th

10. French queen who was executed during the French revolution; “Let them eat cake”
Marie Antoinette

11. 18th century British king who lost the colonies when the American revolution was fought.
George III
(schizophrenic)

12. Napoleon Bonaparte
Early 19th century French military and political leader; twice emperor of France, twice exiled; lost at Waterloo

13. Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Assassinated in 1914, starting WW I
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
of Austria

14. Last Russian czar (tsar), executed by revolutionaries in 1918.
Nicholas 2nd

15. 1st communist leader after the Russian revolution, 1917
1st communist leader after the Russian revolution, Consolidated the Soviet Union under one communist government
Lenin

16. Russian communist dictator after Lenin; mass murderer; Soviet dictator and leader through WW II
Joseph Stalin

17. 20th century’s most hated leader; Austrian-born leader of the German Nazi party in WW II
Adolph Hitler

18. 20th century Italian leader
of WW II fascists
Mussolini

19. 20th century British prime minister during WW II
Winston
Churchill