Statistics for Important Figures in History #1

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What they did...	Who they were...	% Correct
Father of Christianity; Considered the "Son of God"	Jesus Christ	87%
Student of Socrates; Ancient Greek philosopher and playwrite	Plato	81%
A Macedonian general that formed one of the largest land-based empires of its time; Named a lot of cities after him; Spread Hellenism across the Middle East and North Africa	Alexander the Great	68%
Considered the father of the three main monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam	Abraham	58%
A Venetian who travelled the Silk Road to Yuan China; Wrote about the courts in his log	Marco Polo	55%
Founder of Islam; The first caliph of the series of Islamic caliphates	Mohammed	55%
Leader and general of the largest land based empire in history; After he died his empire split into four khanates	Genghis Khan	52%
First Holy Roman Emperor; Frankish	Charlemagne	45%
Leader of the Yuan (Mongolian) dynasty in China; Son of the above person	Kublai Khan	42%
Founder of the Benedictine monks (Hint!) ; Helped spread Christianity; One of the patron saints of Catholicism	St. Benedict	42%
After the division of the Roman Empire, this person took control of the Eastern portion; Made the capital what is now Istanbul	Constantine	39%
Founder of the main state religion in China; Dubbed after his namesake; Emphasized respecting elders and strict familial roles; Filial piety	Confucius	35%
Mesopotamian King; Created a famous code of laws that emphasized harsh but fair punishment; "Eye for an eye"	Hammurabi	35%
A Sumerian king; Considered legend in Mesopotamian mythology; Had an epic written about	Gilgamesh	32%
Founder of possibly the oldest monotheistic religion in history; The religion is dubbed after his namesake	Zoroaster	29%
One of, if not the richest man ever to live; A Mali king	Mansa Musa	26%
Tried to make Buddhism the state religion of India during the Mauryan dyansty (Hint!)	Ashoka Maurya	19%
Founder of the first Persian empire; Also called the Achaemenid Empire	Cyrus of Persia	19%
Founder of Taoism; Emphasized individualism	Lao Tzu	10%
Considered the first Chinese emperor; United the Warring States of China; Started the Great Wall; Endorsed legalism	Qin Shihuangdi	10%
A Muslim scholar that travelled the Islamic world, documenting the places and the people that he travelled to	Ibn Battuta	6%
Islamic Chinese admiral; Led voyages throughout the Indian Ocean to establish trade routes with other nations	Zheng He	6%
Leader of the Abbasid caliphate during its golden age; Replaced the Ummayad caliphate	Harun al-Rashid	3%
The Buddha's real identity; Founder of Buddhism	Siddhartha Guatama	3%
Lit himself on fire to protest Buddhist persecution in India; Was a Buddhist monk himself	Thich Quang Duc	3%
Author of "The Tale of Genji" one of the earliest written novels in history	Lady Murasaki	0%
Founder of the Incan empire from the kingdom of Cusco	Pachakuti	0%
Led the Mesopotamian city-state of Ur; Founded one of the oldest recorded law codes in history	Ur-Nammu	0%
Helped solidify Buddhism in China; Travelled to India to reconnect with Buddhist origins and wrote a book	Xuanzang	0%