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Famous People of the Middle East and Africa. Directions: You will be divided into groups of 4. One person from each group will take a turn at identifying the person in the picture. Each person in the group is responsible for taking a turn identifying the picture. Founder of Islam. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Founder of Islam
Famous Peopleof the Middle East and Africa
Directions:
You will be divided into groups of 4.One person from each group will take a turn at identifying the person in the picture.Each person in the group is responsible for taking a turn identifying the picture.
Founder of Islam
Mohammed
Founder of Judaism
AbrahamAbraham
President of Egypt( 1954 1970)Constructed the Aswan High Dam
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Last King of Egypt(1936-1952)
King Farouk
Ruler of the Mali Empire
Mansa Musa
Dictator of Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Known as the Magnificent
Suleiman I
Last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Mohammed V
Shiite that took control of Iran in 1979
Ayatollah Khomeini
This King of BabylonResponsible for a code of laws
Hammaruabi
Modernized Turkeygiven the name Ataturk
Mustafa Kemal
First woman to become Pharaoh/Ruler of Ancient Egypt
Hatshepsut
Founder of Christianity
Jesus
Led peaceful protests against apartheid in South Africa.Won the Nobel Peace Prize 1993
Nelson Mandela
President of EgyptSigned peace treaty with Israel
Anwar Sadat
First leader of the PLO in Israel
Yasser Arafat
Ruler of Songhai Empire
Sundiata
First Prime Minister of Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
Egyptian King
King Tut
Queen of Zaria
Queen Amira
Ethiopian skier that competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics
Robel Tekiemarian
Diplomat from Cote d Ivore
Amara Essy
King of Belgium Created Congo Free State. Under his rule Africans were enslaved and tortured. Over 1,000,000 Africans died under his rule.
King Leopold II
President of South Africa(1989-1994)Ended apartheid
William de Klerk
First Black African (Nigeria) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in literature
Wolfe Soyinka
King of the Kongo 1526Protested the treatment of his people by Portuguese traders
Wife of Nelson Mandela.
Winnie Mandela
Military leader of Uganda
Idi Amin
Led peaceful protests for Indias independence from Great Britain
Mohandas Gandhi
Wife of King Ramses II and Queen of Egypt
Queen Nefertari
President of Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe
Civil Rights activist, historian, scholar, and Pan AfricanistBecame a citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95
Dubois
President of Angola
Jose dos Santos
Ruler of the Zulu Empire
Shaka Zulu
Nigerian novelist wrote In the Shadow of War
Ben Okri
Name given to the ruler of the Persian Empire
Darius I
Son and ruler of the Persian Empire upon the death of Darius the Great
Xerxes I
Father of the Iranian nation", he was the first world leader to be referred to as The Great. He founded the Persian Empire
Cyrus the Great
In 2004 he made the hotel he managed in Rwanda into a refugee camp saving hundreds of Tutsi from being massacred.
Paul Rusesabogina
First female Prime Minister of Turkey
Tansu Ciller
Suez Canal was built during his reign ad Sultan of Egypt
Ismail Pasha
Overthrew President Mobutu of Zaire in 1997 and renamed the country the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Laurent-Desire Kabila
Professor, Environmentalist, and Human Rights Activist in Kenya
Wangari Maathai
Ruler of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar II
First Women Prime Minister of Israel
Golda Meir
Became the Queen of Egypt in 51 BC
Cleopatra