Throughout history, many influential figures had disabilities. Some examples from the document include Egyptian pharaohs who likely had physical or mental disabilities due to inbreeding, Greek and Roman gods who were depicted as having disabilities resulting from their own divine inbreeding, Julius Caesar and leaders like Michelangelo who had epilepsy, and more modern figures like Darwin, Einstein, Churchill, and Roosevelt who succeeded despite conditions like OCD, learning disabilities, and physical disabilities. The Holocaust showed the dangers of excluding those with disabilities, and the UN Declaration of Human Rights established protections for people with disabilities.
3. World History to 1500
• Egyptian Pharaohs
• Physical Disabilities and
possibly Mental Disabilities Due
to Inbreeding
– Brothers married Sisters
• Women owned all land
• Pharaohs needed to control the
land
– Amenhotep IV
• Renamed himself “Akhenaten”
• Worship of one god “Aten”
• Father of King Tut
historywiz.com
4. World History to 1500
• Greek Culture
– Exposure of those with
disabilities
• Sparta
– Births
– Disabilities from war
– Myths
blog.aurorahistoryboutique.com • Inbreeding of gods
5. World History to 1500
• Greek / Roman Gods
– Inbreeding of Zeus (Jupiter)
and Hera (Juno)
• Hephaestus (Vulcan)
– God of Smiths (Makers)
– Physically Disabled
» Highly Intelligent
• Ares (Mars)
– God of War
– Mentally Disabled
» War is insane
» Outstanding Physique
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6. World History to 1500
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• Philip II of Macedonia
– Father of Alexander the Great
• Physically Disabled thru Warfare
7. World History to 1500
• Julius Caesar
– Epilepsy
(Falling Sickness)
• He was thought to be
“Touched by the gods”
vroma.org
8. World History to 1500
• The Italian Renaissance
– Leonardo da Vinci
• Epilepsy
kingsgalleries.com
– Michelangelo Buonarotti
• Epilepsy
by Jacopino del Conte
en.wikipedia.org
10. World History after 1500
• King Henry VIII
– Leg Wounded
– Brain Injury
• Both from jousting
accident
11. World History after 1500
• Tsar Peter the Great’s
Half- Brother and Co-Ruler–
Tsar Ivan V
– Physically disabled
– Mentally disabled
12. World History after 1500
• Charles Darwin
• Theory of Evolution
– Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder (OCD)
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13. World History after 1500
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Telephone
– Learning disability
biography.com
14. World History after 1500
• Thomas Edison
• Light Bulb
– Learning disability
– Deaf
geocities.jp
15. World History after 1500
quotezuki.com
• President Woodrow Wilson
– Dyslexia
– Physically disabled after stroke
16. World History after 1500
• Albert Einstein
• Theory of Relativity
• Atomic Research
– Learning disabled
simonhedley.com
17. World History after 1500
• Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
– Speech impediment
due to a learning
disability
biography.com
18. World History after 1500
history.com
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt
– Physical disability from polio
19. World History after 1500
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• General
• President
– learning disability
biography.com
20. World History after 1500
• Holocaust
– People with disabilities
exterminated
historywiz.com
– the war crimes trials
• “Three Generations of
Imbeciles is Enough”
• An example of
genocide
(sterilization)
21. World History after 1500
• The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (1948)
– People with disabilities included
• Eleanor Roosevelt
– Principle Advocate
– FDR was her husband.
childrensrightsportal.org
22. World History after 1500
dissentiscool.wordpress.com
• President John F. Kennedy
and the Cold War
– learning disability
– chronic pain
