Umar was pretty important in making Islam a world religion. In Mohammed’s lifetime, Islam had become the religion of Arabia. But it was Umar who took it to Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Libya, etc.
Last day for round 8!
6 more hours…
Inventor: William TG Morton
Leader: Josef Stalin
Philosophy and Arts: Michelangelo
Religion: Asoka
Science: James Clerk Maxwell
It won’t be until late this afternoon before I can do the round 8 scoring, so if there are any “late” votes they will be counted.
Here’s the votes so far for Round 8:
Inventors.
William TG Morton - 7
Louis Daguerre - 3
Gugilemo Marconi - 2
James Watt - 1
Antony van Leeuwenhoek - 1
Leaders.
Charlemagne - 6
Cyrus the Great - 4
Napoleon Bonaparte - 1
Genghis Khan - 1
Mao Zedong - 1
Josef Stalin - 1
Philosophy.
Voltaire - 4
Nicoli Machiavelli - 3
Michelangelo - 3
Lao Tzu - 2
Francis Bacon - 1
Confucius - 1
Religion.
Asoka - 7
St Augustine - 4
‘Umar ibn al-Khattab - 2
Moses - 1
Science.
James Clerk Maxwell - 5
Nicolas Copernicus - 3
John Dalton - 2
Galileo Galilei - 2
Johannes Kepler - 2
Appreciate it. 
Round 9 will start when I do the “official” update, but at least (thanks to nemo) we know who lost.
Maxwell is a true shame. Should have easily sailed into the top 10; I had him at #6 in my list of scientists.
Round 8 is over!
The losers are:
Category, Name, # of votes
L, Charlemagne, 6
S, James Clerk Maxwell, 5
R, Asoka, 7
P, Voltaire, 4
I, William TG Morton, 7
Remaing names for round 9:
Inventions
Alexander Fleming, Scientist, Invented Penicillin
Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Scientist, Inventor of Microscope
Edward Jenner, Scientist, Developed Vaccination for Smallpox
Gugilemo Marconi, Scientist, Invented Radio
Henry Ford, American Industrialist, Developed Mass Production Techniques
James Watt, British Scientist, Invented Steam Engine
Johann Gutenberg, Scientist, Inventor of Printing Press
Joseph Lister, Scientist, Developed Antiseptic Methods
Louis Dagurre, Scientist, Invented Photography
Nikolaus August Otto, Scientist, Developed Internal Combustion Engine
Thomas Edison, American Scientist, 1,000+ inventions
Ts’ai Lun, Scientist, Inventor of Paper
Leaders
Adolf Hitler, German Dictator, Started World War II
Alexander the Great, Macedonian Ruler, Formed Macedonian Empire
Augustus Caesar, Roman Princep, Founded Roman Empire
Cyrus the Great, Persian Emperor, Founded Persian Emperor
Genghis Khan, Mongol Ruler, Founded Mongol Empire
George Washington, American Statesman and General, Fought For Independence of United States
Josef Stalin, Dictator of USSR, Expanded Communism
Julius Caesar, Roman General, Ended Roman Civil Wars
Lenin, Russian Leader, Founded Communism in Russia
Mao Zedong, Chinese Dictator, Established Communism in China
Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, Waged Napoleonic Wars
Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Made England a Naval Power
Sui Wen Ti, Chinese Emperor, Reunited China
William the Conquerer, Norman Duke and English King, Led In Norman Conquest of England
Philosophy and Arts
Adam Smith, Economist, Advocated Capitalism
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
Confucius, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Confucianism
Francis Bacon, Philosopher, Developed Scientific Method
John Locke, British Philosopher, Developed Democratic Ideas
Karl Marx, Economist, Founder of Communism
Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher, Founded Taoism
Michelangelo, Artist, Sculptor
Nicoli Machiavelli, Political Theorist
Plato, Greek Philosopher, Developed Platonism
Thomas Jefferson, American Statesman, Wrote Declaration of Independence, Louisiana Purchase
William Shakespeare, English Playwright
Religions
‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, Muslim Caliph, Expanded the Caliphate
Buddha, Founder of Buddhism
Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor, Tolerated and Promoted Christianity in Rome
Jesus Christ, Founder of Christianity
Martin Luther, Theologian, Started Protestantism and Reformation
Mohammed, Founder of Islam
Moses, Jewish Prophet
St Augustine, Christian Theologian
St Paul, Christian Missionary and Apostle
Sciences
Albert Einstein, Scientist, Physicist, Theory of Relativity
Charles Darwin, British Scientist, Theory of Evolution
Enrico Fermi, Scientist, Developed Atomic Bomb
Ernest Rutherford, Scientist, Developed Subatomic Physics
Euclid, Greek Mathematician
Galileo Galilei, Scientist, Advocated Heliocentricity
Isaac Newton, British Scientist, Theory of Universal Gravitation and Motion
Johannes Kepler, Scientist, Developed Theories of Planetary Motion
John Dalton, Scientist, Atomic Theory
Louis Pasteur, Scientist, Pasteurization, Germ Theory of Disease
Max Planck, Scientist, Developed Therodynamics
Michael Faraday, British Scientist, Discovered Electromagnetism
Nicolas Copernicus, Scientist, Theory of Heliocentricity
Maxwell? Good grief folks - what were you thinking?
Inventions. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leader. Napoleon Bonaparte
Philosophy. Lao Tzu
Religion. St. Augustine
Science. Johannes Kepler
Don’t look at me - I just score the thing. 
On the plus side, I got 3 of my targets. On the minus side, Maxwell, wtf???
Inventions. Marconi
Leaders. Adolf Hitler
Philosophy. Machiavelli
Religion. Augustine
Science. Copernicus
Yes, Hitler. His Reich didn’t exactly last 1,000 years, and the long-term results of his rule were mainly in the exact opposite direction of what he wanted to achieve. (Speaking of German leaders, Otto Von Bismarck is notable for his absence from this list).
Philosophy is hard; I wouldn’t hate the loss of Michelangelo or Shakespeare at this point, but voting for an artist feels like a copout. Machiavelli is less of a systematizer than most of the others remaining on the list.
It was a near-coin flip in my mind between the City of Man (Constantine) and City of God(Augustine), but Augustine was just slightly less important to the development of Christianity IMO. Constantine is next, then we can get to the actual founders of religions.
Maxwell surprised me too. Seems to me the whole electricity thing has caught on in a big way.
But, hey, I’m still amazed by the departures of Mendel and Shi Huang.
My votes for Round 9:
Inventor. Louis Daguerre
Leader. Cyrus
Philosophy. Niccolo Machiavelli
Religion. Umar ibn al-Khattab
Science. Johannes Kepler
The religious category has gotten very tough for me. I’ve essentially broken it down into three sub-categories.
The founders: Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed
The developers: Paul, Augustine, Martin Luther
The disseminators: Umar, Constantine, and the now departed Asoka
As you can see I’m working back through the three categories. Constantine will be my next choice. The I’ll work back through the three developers of Christianity in reverse chronological order. Then I’ll have to make some decisions about the Big Four.
Wow, I made a clean sweep with my votes! Unfortunately now I have to come up with five new names to eliminate.
Inventions. Henry Ford
Leaders. Josef Stalin
Philosophy and Arts. Michelangelo
Religions. Martin Luther
Sciences. Enrico Fermi
Ford: with industrialization in full swing, it was only a matter of time before someone thought of the assembly line.
Stalin: Although he was a ruthless leader, soviet-style communism did not last to the end of the century and he did not have the global impact that Hitler did.
Michelangelo: kind of a cop-out vote for an important figure in a mostly uninfluential field
Luther: Certainly a defining figure in church history, but not as widely influential as either Augustine or Constantine.
Fermi: did not invent the bomb by himself, and the bomb itself has only been around 65 years.
Inventor: Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Politics: Josef Stalin
Philosophy and Arts: Michelangelo
Religion: 'Umar ibn al-Khattab
Science: Galileo Galileo
Invention. Louis Dagurre
Leader. Cyrus the Great
Philosophy. Confucius
Religion. ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab
Science. Galileo Galilei
No changes this time… oh well.
Inventions. Louis Dagurre
Leader. Queen Elizabeth I
Philosophy. Michelangelo
Religion. Moses
Science. Galileo Galilei
wowsers, having expended much ammo I finally got Charlemagne.
Michelangelo and Galileo are unfortunate, but passing ain’t an option.
The other three don’t rank at this elite level.
Invention. Louis Dagurre
Leader. Queen Elizabeth I
Philosophy. Nicoli Machiavelli
Religion. St Augustine
Science. Nicolas Copernicus
Inventor: Gugilemo Marconi
Leader: Cyrus the Great
Philosophy and Arts: Michelangelo
Religion: Buddha
Science: Galileo Galilei