PYSK Simplified Descriptions

Enoch

God took him

Sargon the Great

Mesopotamian ruler

Hammurabi

Babylonian king

Joshua

Israelite leader

Deborah

Judge of Israel

Gideon

Judge of Israel

Samson

Judge of Israel

Elijah

Prophet of Israel

Elisha

Prophet of Israel

Hosea

Prophet of Israel

Solon

Athenian statesman and lawmaker

Daniel - Beltashazzar. Friends - Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego

Prophet of Israel (Babylon)

Siddhartha Gautama

Indian religious figure

Confucius

Chinese philosopher

Darius the Great

Persian ruler

Sun Tzu

Chinese military general and philosopher

Pericles

Greek statesman.

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Phillip II of Macedonia

Macedonan leader

Alexander the Great (Greek)

Macedonian military general

Ashoka the Great

Indian emperor

Shi Huangdi

Chinese emperor

Julius Caesar

Roman military general

Herod the Great

Roman king

Cleopatra VII

Egyptian queen

Nero

Roman emperor

Constantine

Roman emperor

St. Patrick

Missionary to Ireland

Attila the Hun

King of the Huns

Justinian I

Roman Emperor

Theodora

Roman Empress

Muhammad

Saudi Arabian religious figure

William I

Norman King of England

Pope Urban II

Religious leader of Papal States

Pope Innocent III

Religious leader of Papal States

Genghis Khan

Mongol Emperor

Francis of Assisi

Italian monk and religious leader

Dante Alighieri

Italian philosopher and poet

William Wallace

Scottish knight

Geoffrey Chaucer

English author

Desiderius Erasmus

Dutch humanist, teacher, and theologian

Niccolo Machiavelli

Italian diplomat and writer

Nicholas Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer

Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese explorer

Babur

Indian Emperor

Paracelsus

Swiss physician

Charles V

Holy Roman Emperor

Elizabeth I

English and Irish leader

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Spanish writer

Francis Bacon

English scientist

Rene Descartes

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Louis XIV

French leader

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and scientist

Peter the Great

Russian leader

Charles-Louis Montesquieu

French judge, philosopher and political analyst

Voltaire

French writer and philosopher

John Wesley

English cleric, theologian, and evangelist

Federick the Great

Prussian leader

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genevan philosopher and writer

Adam Smith

Scottish economist and philosopher

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

James Cook

British explorer and military leader

Catherine the Great

Empress of Russia

James Watt

Scottish engineer and inventor

Alesandro Volta

Italian physicist and chemist

Edward Jenner

English physician

Gouverneur Morris

American statesman and Founding Father of the United States

Alexander Hamilton

American revolutionary and Founding Father of the United States.

Maximilien Robespierre

French lawyer and politician

Mary Wollstonecraft

English writer and advocate for women's equality

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher

Simon Bolivar

Venezuelan military and political leader

John Stuart Mill

English philosopher and economist

Phineas T Barnum

American showman and businessman

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

American suffragist and leader

Frederick Douglass

American slave and abolitionist

William Tecumseh Sherman

American soldier, businessman, and author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Russian writer and philosopher

Clara Barton

American nurse

Gregor Mendel

Austrian monk and scientist

William Thomson

Scots-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer.

Sitting Bull

Hunkpapa Lakota leader

Lottie Moon

American missionary

Alexander Graham Bell

American inventor

Marie Curie

Polish scientist

Mohandas Gandhi

Indian activist

Vladimir Liyich Lenin

Russian communist revolutionary and leader

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian physicist and inventor

Winston Churchill

British politician, army officer, and writer

Joseph Stalin

USSR leader

Margaret Sanger

American birth control activist and advocate of eugenics

Alexander Flemming

Scottish physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist

Frederick Banting

Canadian medical scientist, physician, and painter

Mao Ze-dong

Chinese communist leader

Norman Rockwell

American painter and illustrator

J Robert Oppenheimer

American theoretical physicist

Jacques Cousteau

French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker, and author

John Eckert

American electrical engineer

James Watson and Francis Crick

British and American scientists

Anne Frank

German-Dutch diarist