Evil+Men+and+Women

Top Ten List: The Most Evil Men in History

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Introduction: It’s hard to imagine how any single human being could be so evil and inflict the horror on mankind. But throughout history, we find these people over and over. This task is devoted to the exploration of the evilest of them all!

Do Both Tasks #1, #2, #3 and #4 Below: 1. Fly to the lost city for each person (found in column 2 below) to answer the first Google Earth question listed in the table 2. Using the linked websites, answer the questions about this person and the autocracies they committed. 3. Watch 1 or 2 videos and explore the linked websites for each evil person and justify why this person belongs on this list. 4. Rank the people from most evil and choose someone NOT listed below to nominate for the list. Justify your decision and add this to your Google Earth NoteCard. If you write a clue and find a location on Google Earth representing that person or significant event the prompted your nomination, prepare to receive some hefty extra credit.
 * ** Evil Person **

|| ** Google Earth Questions **
 * and Required Image **

|| ** General Research Questions **
 * (You must use Google Earth **
 * and Wikipedia layers to **
 * find these answers) **

|| ** Videos **

(Watch at least 1 or 2 videos & find 2 interesting facts  to add to your  Travel Journal) || ** Websites for Research **

|| || Fly to "Dracula's Castle".
 * Vlad Dracula

1) What is it named today and why?

2) Zoom in and take a picture of the castle and it's surroundings. || Everyone know the famous Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's amazing novel. But history was more fiction than fact. So let's learn who this dude really was!

1) What was his true name, where did he live and why did he get the reputation of being a vampire?

2) What types of torture was Count Dracula known for?

3) Why was he so mean? || media type="custom" key="27821189" || http://www.livescience.com/48536-vlad-the-impaler-dark-secrets.html

http://www.unmuseum.org/real_dracula.htm || || Fly to "Robespierre" in France.
 * Maximilien Robespierre

Find the wikipedia article to answer the following:

1) What is Robespierre, France?

Find a Panoromia photo of the inside and share that screenshot in your notes card. || 1) Describe the "Reign of Terror" and the role Robespierre played.

2) Robespierre is known for his saying "the end justifies the means". What does this mean? || media type="custom" key="27821191"

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http://www.biography.com/people/maximilien-de-robespierre-37422#ironic-aftermath || || Fly to "Auschwitz, Poland". There you will find that the former extermination camp is now a Memorial Museum (so the world will never forget what happened there). Zoom into the center of the musuem, look at the pictures, and find the two most disturbing. Take a screenshot of these and include them in your notecards. || 1) What was Josef Mengele's nickname in World War II and how did he earn that name?
 * Josef Mengele

2) Describe some of the medical "experiments" Mengele performed in Auschwitz.

3) What became of Josef Mengele? Auschwitz || media type="custom" key="27821247" || http://auschwitz.dk/Mengele.htm

http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/josef-mengele || || Near the end of WWII, Hitler and his wife (Ava Braun) knew their defeat was close at hand. Rather than being captured, they chose to cowardly end their own lives.
 * Adolph Hitler

Fly to the "Fuherbunker" in Germany and take an aerial screenshot of the building. The rooms below the building, where Hitler's body was found, are sealed off. || 1) What is the title of Hitler's famous book and what is it about?

2) Describe the idea of "racial cleansing" and share how this applied to Hitler.

3) What was the TOTAL number of people exterminated during the Holocaust and what OTHER groups (besides the Jews), were targeted by the Nazis (put in concentration camps and killed)? || media type="custom" key="27821249" || http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/hitleradolf/p/prhitler.htm

http://www.biographyonline.net/military/adolf-hitler.html || || Fly to "Camp 14" in North Korea.
 * Kim Sung

1) Zoom in, zoom out. Why are there Panoramio pictures?

2) Find the wikipedia article and describe the living conditions at the camp. || 1) List the top 5 atrocities in North Korea today, brought to you be Kim Sung!

2) Describe Camp 14 and the "three generations of punishment".

3) Describe several lack of human rights in North Korea. || media type="custom" key="27821201" || http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/13/north-korea-factoids/2078831/ || || Fly to the birthplace of Idi Amin. As most historical references of him have been destroyed, take a screenshot of the city to include at least one mosque and one Catholic church. || 1) Why did Amin overthrow the Ugandan government?
 * Idi Amin

2) Why did Amin kill so many of his own people?

3) What became of Amin? || media type="custom" key="27821203" || http://www.history.com/topics/idi-amin || || Fly to "Phenon Penn, Cambodia". Look around at the Panoramio photos until you find the stupa.
 * Pol Pot

What is a stupa? What's inside THIS stupa? || 1) What the Khmer Rouge's main objective?

2) Describe life under Pol Pot's leadership.

3) Why did so many people die under Pol Pot's leadership. || media type="custom" key="27821205" || http://www.history.com/topics/pol-pot || || Fly to the "Genghis Khan Mausoleum".
 * Genghis Khan

Find 3 pictures and include them in your note cards. || 1) Name various way Ghengis Khan killed 11% of the world's population?

2) Name a few good things this evil guy did. || media type="custom" key="27821253" || http://www.history.com/topics/genghis-khan

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-genghis-khan || || In 1925, Stalin had the city of Tsaritsyn renamed to Stalingrad (in his honor). Following his reign of terror, Stalingrad has been renamed. Take a picture of the famous river near this renamed city and be sure to include the name of the river as a subtitle for your screenshot. || 1) Describe in one paragraph Joseph Stalin's childhood.
 * Joseph Stalin

2) What happened to farmers under Stalin's rule?

3) What two things made Stalin kill so many of his own people? How many Russians were killed under his "leadership?" || media type="custom" key="27821255"

media type="custom" key="27821257" || http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin

http://www.biography.com/people/joseph-stalin-9491723#early-life || || Mao was born in the Hunan province of China. Fly to the capital of this province and take a screenshot of what the city now looks like. || Mao is credited to be responsible for the death of... 70 MILLION Chinese!
 * Mao Zedong

1) What was Mao's great plan concerning the future of China?

2) What the purpose of the Cultural Revolution?

3) Were the multiple causes of the deaths of those 70 million Chinese? || media type="custom" key="27821213" || http://www.biographyonline.net/politicians/asia/chairman-mao.html

http://www.history.com/topics/cultural-revolution || || Currently, over 3 MILLION Syrians have been forced to leave their homes in Syria due to violence against them at the hands of Al-Asid's government army.
 * Bashor Al-Asid

Open Google Earth and use the Ruler tool to find the distance between Syria and Germany (one of the few countries welcoming the refugees). Take a screenshot of the ruler measuing this distance and record that distance under your screenshot. || Bashor Al-Asid became "president" of Syria when he father died. He promised that Syria would become a democracy, but his economic reforms and lust for power soon showed he was a liar. Soon, there was a civil war in Syria between Al-Asid's government (who wanted to retain power) and the citizens (who wanted democracy).

1) What was the Arab Spring?

2) Describe some of the atrocities that have happened to the Syrian people as they seek to have a democratic government? || media type="custom" key="27821215" || http://www.britannica.com/biography/Bashar-al-Assad

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stop-the-cycle/201309/how-bashar-al-assad-became-brutal-dictator ||