World History•Period 6

1. Identify
Unit 6 part 2

2. Muhammad Ali
Born January 17, 1942
• Is a former American boxer and three-time
World Heavyweight Champion
• Won a gold medal in the light heavyweight
division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in
Rome
• Became the first boxer to win the lineal
heavyweight championship three times
• Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed
his name after joining the Nation of Islam in
1964
• Was nicknamed "The Greatest"

3. David Livingstone
19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873
• Was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical
missionary with the London Missionary Society and
explorer in Africa
• One of the most popular national heroes of the late
19th century in Victorian Britain
• His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the
obsession with discovering the sources of the River
Nile
• After his death in Africa there was subsequent
glorification for him as posthumous national hero in
1874 which led to the founding of several major
central African Christian missionary initiatives"
• Had a mythic status earning reputations such as
scientific investigator and explorer, imperial
reformer, or anti-slavery crusader

4. Henry Stanley
28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904
• Was a Welsh journalist and explorer
• Was famous for his exploration of Africa
and his search for David Livingstone
• Is often remembered for the words
uttered to Livingstone upon finding him:
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
• Inspired Joseph Conrad's Novel, Heart of
Darkness
• One of his missions was to solve a last
great mystery of African exploration by
tracing the course of the River Congo to
the sea

5. Zulu People
• Are the largest South African ethnic group
• They Live mainly in the province of
KwaZulu-Natal
• Small numbers also live in Zimbabwe,
Zambia, and Mozambique
• Their language, Zulu, is a Bantu language
• Played a major role in South African
history during the 19th and 20th
centuries