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4380396988AbrahamFounder of Judaism0
4380398825Mosesled Jews out of Egypt in the Exodus1
4380401446GautamaFounder of Buddhism2
4380403687Jesus of NazarethFounder of Christianity - according to Christians he's the Messiah3
4380409108AllahIslamic name for God4
4380417923MichelangeloRenaissance artist - painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted La Pieta and David5
4380422416Erasmusmost famous Christian Humanist - wrote the Praise of Folly6
4380429952ShakespeareRenaissance playwright and writer of sonnets7
4380434054TurksMuslims from Asia Minor - Defeated Constantinople in 1453 - renamed it Istanbul - traded coffee and ceramics - spread Islam to Middle East, North Africa, and Balkan Peninsula8
4380450368Leonardo Da VinciRenaissance artist - painted Mona Lisa and the Last Supper9
4380457370PopeHead of the Roman Catholic Church10
4380462358Johannes Gutenberginvented the printing press, helped Renaissance ideas spread - Gutenberg Bible11
4380466714Martin Lutherfirst to ever break away from Catholic Church, German monk, faith - 95 Thesis12
4380876592John CalvinGod predestines certain people to go to heaven - Calvinism13
4380882943JesuitsCatholic order that proselytized for all over the world for Catholic Church14
4380902307Elizabeth ICombined Catholic and Protestant to come up with the Anglican Church15
4380924915Henry VIIIbroke away from the Catholic Church because of divorce. (divorce, beheaded, died, divorce, beheaded, survived)16
4380941221Prince HenryPortugal - Brought people to together to study navigation17
4380947023Columbuswanted to sail west around the world to get to Asia - landed in Caribbean (in 1492) - thought he was in India18
4380962405Magellanhis crew was first to circumnavigate the globe19
4380966782DrakeFirst Englishman to sail around the globe20
4380973701CortezSpanish conquistador - conquered Aztecs21
4380978473PizarroSpanish conquistador - conquered Incas22
4380983655CartierFrench explorer - claimed Canada for France23
4380987059da GamaPortuguese - first to find water route to Asia24
4381000662MughalsMuslims - ruled India - built the Taj Mahal - Akbar; Jahan- Muslim Hindu25
4381018322OttomansMuslims - Asia Minor - coffee and ceramics26
4381023485SonghaiAfricans - traded salt and gold - Ghana, Mali; Timbuktu in western Africa - Mansa Musa27
4381035108JapaneseKicked out foreigners and became isolationists - Matthew Perry28
4381039992Chineseset up trading enclaves for foreigners to trade in - canton system29
4381046740AztecsNative Americans civilization - Mexico - corn30
4381055067IncasNative American civilization - Peru - Andes Mts. - roads and bridges31
4381068511MayansNative American civilization - Yucatan - Famous for pyramids - disappeared32
4381106373Louis XVIabsolute monarch of France - brought a great culture to France - also caused problems by doing away with the Edict of Nantes - built Versailles33
4381117520Sun Kingnickname of Louis XVI34
4381123837Fredrick the Greatabsolute ruler of Prussia35
4381125495Peter the Greatan absolute ruler of Russia - he wanted to westernize Russia - move capital closer to the water36
4381141008CopernicusPolish - heliocentric theory - feared the Church37
4381145539KeplerGerman - used math to prove that earth goes around the sun in an ellipse38
4381150551GalileoItalian - telescope to prove Copernicus right - declared a heretic39
4381157166HarveyEnglish - blood circulates through the blood - "Harvey Heart"40
4381165312NewtonEnglish - developed calculus and the laws of gravity41

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