Historic Mexican figures
She painted colorful self-portraits and married Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo
He developed the theory of relativity and changed physics forever
Albert Einstein
He was born in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago and became the leader of a major religion
Jesus Christ
He started the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and became a symbol for farmers
Emiliano Zapata
He invented the light bulb and recorded sound
Thomas Edison
He led India’s independence movement and used peaceful protests
Mahatma Gandhi
He ruled the Aztec Empire and met Hernán Cortés in 1519.
Moctezuma II
He discovered gravity after he saw an apple fall from a tree
Isaac Newton
He spoke about civil rights in his “I Have a Dream” speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
He led the Mexican army and fought against the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862
General Ignacio Zaragoza
He created the telephone and made the first phone call in 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
This Venetian merchant travelled to China in the 1200s and met Kublia Khan. He wrote about his journeys and it became a famous book
Marco Polo