Dem Peeps doe Flashcards
(172 cards)
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Greek philosopher, teacher of Alexander the Great
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Aristotle
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Son of God, mosiah, 2nd monotheistic religion
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Jesus Christ
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Napoleonic Code, failed empire in Europe
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Napoleon
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Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Long March, support of peasants
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Mao Zedong
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theory of evolution, survival of the fittest
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Charles Darwin
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Leader of Bolsheviks and Russian Revolution, communist Russia, NEP
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Vlad Lenin
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communist leader in North Vietnam, nationalist, communist
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Ho Chi Minh
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Jewish-German scientist, worked on atomic bomb
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Albert Einstein
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first united leader in China, legalism, Great Wall
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Shi Huang di
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controlled most of Holy Roman Empire,
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Charlemagne
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blood and iron, realpoltik, unified people of Germany
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Otto Von Bismarck
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philosopher, know role in society, 5 relationships
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Confucius
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Babylon, 1st written law codes, strict, eye for an eye
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Hammurabi
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Cuban revolutionary, Communist Cuban, Cuban Missile Crisis
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Fidel Castro
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Chinese nationalist, leader of Kuomintang dynasty, tries to set up democracy in China
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Sun Yixian
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leader the followed Kruschev, in charge when Czechoslovakia broke away, détente
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Leonid Brezhnev
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leader in Kenya, first president of unified Kenya
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Jomo Kenyetta
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Argentinian independence ruler, gives his army to Bolivar
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José De San Martin
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Catholic nun, won Nobel Peace Prize for work in India
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Mother Theresa
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Absolute Monarch in Spain, Catholicism, tried to increase his power
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Philip II
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mystical holy man, advisor of Romanovs
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Rasputin
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Caudillo in Mexico, slogan was order and progress
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Porfirio Diaz
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female leader in Pakistan, assassinated by terrorists
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Benazir Bhutto
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Egyptian Pharaoh, longest running Egyptian ruler
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Hatshepsut
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general of Carthage, attacked Roman Empire, Punic Wars
Hannibal
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First non-Chinese ruler of China, deals with Marco Polo
Kublai Khan
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Ideas of predestination, Calvinism
John Calvin
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Wife of Louis XVI, executed
Marie Antoinette
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Mexicain revolutionary leader that teamed with Pancho Villa , wanted Land and Liberty
Emiliano Zapata
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last Queen of Hawaii, overthrown by American businesses
Queen Liliukalani
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current leader of Russia
Vladimir Putin
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leader of Israelites out of Egypt, received the 10 commandments
Moses
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leader of French army during the 100 years war, burned at the steak by British
Joan of Arc
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astonomy, telescope, irregularities in heaven, conflicts with the Church
Galileo
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Communist leader in Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, killing fields, wanted an agricultural society
Pol Pot
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classical composer, child prodigy
Mozart
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Increased the power of the Mauryan Empire, rock edicts
Asoka
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Chinese explorer who explored South Asia, closed the borders because of him
Zheng He
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Dictator of Roman Republic, refused to give up his power, made a number of reforms, assassinated by senators
Julius Caesar
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separation of powers, checks and balances
Baron de Montesquieu
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Protestant Reformation, 95 Theses, questioned the church
Martin Luther
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Communist Manifesto, class struggle, started the ideas of Communism
Karl Marx
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Also called Emperor Meiji, responsible for westernizing and modernizing Japan
Mutsuhito
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Russian Czar, gained a warm water port, westernized
Peter the Great
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believed in natural rights, life, liberty, and property, helped inspire the American Revolution
John Locke
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ideal Renaissance Man, Mona Lisa, scientist, dissected human body
Leonardo Da Vinci
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law-giver, leader at the height of the Ottoman Empire
Suleiman the Great
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natural laws of economics, economist, laissez-faire, capitalism
Adam Smith
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laws of gravity and motion
Isaac Newton
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author, playwright for Britain
William Shakespeare
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Prime Minister of Britain during WWII, created phrase "Iron Curtain", famous speeches
Winston Churchill
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Put Europe together after Napoleon, lead the Congress of Vienna
Klemons Von Metternich
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Invented the printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
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Italian nationalist, leader of the Red Shirts, unified Southern Italy by force
Guiseppe Garibaldi
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scientist, radioactivity, Nobel Peace Prize
Marie Curie
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black bishop, called for economic sanctions on South Africa in hopes to end Apartheid
Desmond Tutu
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Started the heliocentric theory
Copernicus
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nationalist leader in Indonesia, the countries first leader
Sukarno
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first leader of independent Israel
Ben Gurion
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one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs, was in power during the life of Moses
Ramses II
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Wrote the novel "The Prince", believed that the end justifies the means
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Japanese officer that put together Pearl Harbor
Admiral Yamamoto
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founder of Islam, said to follow the 5 pillars
Mohammed
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rediscovered the Americas, sailed for Spain
Christopher Columbus
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Absolute monarch in France, built Palace of Versailles, was titled the Sun King
Louis XIV
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helped India gain independence, first leader of Pakistan
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
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Freed by FW de Klerk, elected as president and ended Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
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made reforms to save the Soviet Union, last leader, glasnost, Perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Totalitarian in Soviet Union, collectivization, 5 year plan, Great Purges
Joseph Stalin
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Leader of England when they were a world power, defeated Spanish Armada
Elizabeth I
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Native of Venezuela, South American revolutionary leader
Simon Bolivar
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Israeli leader that signed the Camp David Accords
Menachem Begin
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Italian artist, painter of the 16th chapel
Michelangelo
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The greatest leader of the Mongols, gained territory that stretched from China to Russia, ruthless
Genghis Khan
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Leader of Mali, made the journey to Mecca, spread Islam, extremely wealthy
Mansa Musa
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civil disobedience in India, Salt March, hunger strikes
Mohandas Gandhi
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formally known as Buddha, meditated for 49 days, believed in no wants or desires
Siddhartha Gautama
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Macedonian, gained land that stretched from Greece to India, Hellenistic
Alexander the Great
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Indian nationalist, first leader of independent India, nonalignment
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Haitian leader that gained independence over the French
Toussaint L'Overture
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Chinese leader, 4 modernizations, capitalist ideas
Deng Xiaoping
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famous zionist
Theordor Herzl
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leader of Ghana, civil disobedience, Pan-Aficanism
Kwame Nkrumah
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Fascist, Nazi leader responsible for the Holocaust
Adolf Hitler
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invented the steam engine
James Watt
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an apostle that spread Christianity to non-Jews in Rome during Pax Romana
Paul of Tarsus
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1st female prime minister in Britain, a conservative
Margaret Thatcher
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Greek and invented Geometry
Euclid
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English king that formed the Anglican Church during the Protestant Reformation
Henry VIII
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up stander during the Holocaust who saved the lives of many Jews
Oskar Schindler
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son of David, King of Israel, law-giver
King Solomon
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teacher of Aristotle, wrote "Republic"
Plato
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Overthrows Mongol rule in Russia
Ivan III
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expands Russia but uses secret police force against boyars who opposed him
Ivan the Terrible
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Queen of Austria, Hapsburg, fought Russia for territory
Maria Theresa
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Queen of England for most of the 1800s, height of empire, Victorian Age
Queen Victoria
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Prime Minister during Yom Kippur War
Golda Meir
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Afrikaner who freed Mandela
F.W de Klerk
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father of modern history, has records of ancient Greece
Herodotus
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Conquistador, overthrows Aztecs
Hernando Cortes
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Holocaust survivor, wrote the book "Night"
Elie Wiesel
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member of the Black Hand who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and began WWI
Gavrilo Princip
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the best of the enlightened despots, actually made reforms, Austrian
Joseph II
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Mexican, liberal reformer, slogan was liberty, order, and progress
Benito Juarez
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Began scramble for Africa, from Belgium, took control of the Congo
King Leopold II
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King of Thailand, westernized
King Mongkut
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author during the Middle Ages who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"
Geoffrey Chauncer
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wrote an essay on population, the world needs war and disease as natural checks for rapidly increasing population
Thomas Malthus
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ousted Ferdinand Marcos and was a Philippine President
Corazon Aquino
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Puritan general during English Civil War, became dictator
Oliver Cromwell
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artist during the Renaissance from the Netherlands
Rebrandt van Rijn
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Prime Minister of Sardinia, cunning statesman, annexed Italy, the head
Camillo di Cavour
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head of the Zulu tribe, fought against the English and Dutch
Shaka Zulu
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Filipino nationalist, lost the fight to America and the U.S took control of the Philippines
Emilio Aquinaldo
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Destalinization, Soviet leader during Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Kruschev
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French radical, head of the Committee of Public Safety, reign of terror, guillotine
Maximillian Robespierre
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Turkish warrior and Muslim leader during the Crusades
Saladin
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last Czar of Russia, Bloody Sunday, whole family killed
Czar Nicholas II
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leader of Al Qaeda, responsible for 9/11
Osama bin Laden
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Serbian leader who is responsible form the genocide on Bosnia, ethnic cleansing, killed many Muslims
Slobodan Milosevic
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Greek poet, wrote Iliad and Odyssey
Homer
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Leader of French resistance in WWII
Charles de Gaulle
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women's rights activist, her daughter wrote "Frankenstein", English
Mary Wollstonecraft
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author from Spain who wrote "Donquixote"
Miguel Cervantes
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leader of Germany during WWI, the Weimar Republic takes over after him
Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Austrian psychologist, deals with unconscious mind
Sigmund Freud
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African explorer of the Muslim world
Ibn Battuta
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Roman emperor moves capital to Constantinople and makes Christianity the main religion of of the Roman Empire, Edict of Milan
Constantine
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daughter of Nehru, assassinated by Sikh body guards, leader of India
Indira Gandhi
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leader of Athens during Golden Age
Pericles
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unites Northern India, began Mauryan Empire
Chandragupta Maurya
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part of a wealthy family, a patron of the arts,
Lorenzo de Medici
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conquistador that toppled Incan Empire
Francisco Pizzaro
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King of France during French Revolution, indecisive
Louis XVI
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American president, 14 Points, League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
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prodemocracy leader in Burma (Myanmar), under house arrest
Aung San Suu Kyi
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archaeologist, uncovered Lucy
Richard Leaky
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forced to sign Magna Carta, limited king's power
King John I
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English author, realist, "Great Expectations", "A Christmas Carol"
Charles Dickens
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defeated PRI party in Mexico
Vincente Fox
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signed the Bill of Rights during the Glorious Revolution, overthrew James II
William and Mary
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believed every person had evil inside of them, need an absolute monarch to keep order
Thomas Hobbes
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invented wireless radio
Guglielmo Marconi
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sent by Ottomans to Egypt, breaks away and modernizes Egypt
Mohammed Ali
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dissident, dies a mysterious death in jail in South Africa
Steven Biko
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Islamic fundamentalist, overthrows Shah in Iran, keeps American hostages
Ayatollah Khomeini
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President of Egypt that signed Camp David Accords, land for peace
Anwar Sadat
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Nicaraguan revolutionary, leader of the Sandinistas
Daniel Ortega
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leader of suffragettes, force-fed in jail
Emmeline Pankhurst
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leader of PLO, intifada, used terrorism to get Palestinian homeland
Yasir Arafat
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Portuguese explorer that traveled to the tip of South Africa
Bartholomeu Diaz
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created Daoism
Laozi
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heating of liquids destroys bacteria
Louis Pasteur
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also known as Octavian, first emperor of Roman Empire
Augustas
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Mughal ruler, led during high point in India
Akbar the Great
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leader in Iraq, chemical weapons against own people, Persian Gulf War
Saddam Hussein
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famous Spanish artist, geometric design
Pablo Picasso
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French author, wrote "Les Miserables"
Victor Hugo
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Romantic composer, German, Ode to Joy
Betthoven
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French philosopher, religious tolerance, freedom of speech
Voltaire
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Italian explorer, used Silk Roads to China, wrote about his travels
Marco Polo
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freely elected president in Czechoslovakia
Vaclav Haval
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Suisse, radical, pushed for democracy, social contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Prussian leader who fought with Maria Theresa, first servant of the state, not exactly and Enlightened Despot
Frederick the Great
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Portuguese prince, founded a school that taught about exploring
Henry the Navigator
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Fascist leader in Italy, allied with Hitler in WWII
Benito Mussolini
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Byzantine emperor, Justinian Code
Justinian
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Mexican caudillo, lost Texas in Battle of Alamo, lost territory to America
Santa Anna
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freely elected Russian president, failed shock therapy, failed capitalism
Boris Yeltsin
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Married to Argentinian dictator, influential, nickname "Evita",
Eva Peron
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Polish solidarity leader, first elected president of Poland
Lech Walesa
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Russian leader, Enlightened Despot, made no reforms
Catherine the Great
