4380396988 | Abraham | Founder of Judaism | 0 | |
4380398825 | Moses | led Jews out of Egypt in the Exodus | 1 | |
4380401446 | Gautama | Founder of Buddhism | 2 | |
4380403687 | Jesus of Nazareth | Founder of Christianity - according to Christians he's the Messiah | 3 | |
4380409108 | Allah | Islamic name for God | 4 | |
4380417923 | Michelangelo | Renaissance artist - painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted La Pieta and David | 5 | |
4380422416 | Erasmus | most famous Christian Humanist - wrote the Praise of Folly | 6 | |
4380429952 | Shakespeare | Renaissance playwright and writer of sonnets | 7 | |
4380434054 | Turks | Muslims from Asia Minor - Defeated Constantinople in 1453 - renamed it Istanbul - traded coffee and ceramics - spread Islam to Middle East, North Africa, and Balkan Peninsula | 8 | |
4380450368 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Renaissance artist - painted Mona Lisa and the Last Supper | 9 | |
4380457370 | Pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church | 10 | |
4380462358 | Johannes Gutenberg | invented the printing press, helped Renaissance ideas spread - Gutenberg Bible | 11 | |
4380466714 | Martin Luther | first to ever break away from Catholic Church, German monk, faith - 95 Thesis | 12 | |
4380876592 | John Calvin | God predestines certain people to go to heaven - Calvinism | 13 | |
4380882943 | Jesuits | Catholic order that proselytized for all over the world for Catholic Church | 14 | |
4380902307 | Elizabeth I | Combined Catholic and Protestant to come up with the Anglican Church | 15 | |
4380924915 | Henry VIII | broke away from the Catholic Church because of divorce. (divorce, beheaded, died, divorce, beheaded, survived) | 16 | |
4380941221 | Prince Henry | Portugal - Brought people to together to study navigation | 17 | |
4380947023 | Columbus | wanted to sail west around the world to get to Asia - landed in Caribbean (in 1492) - thought he was in India | 18 | |
4380962405 | Magellan | his crew was first to circumnavigate the globe | 19 | |
4380966782 | Drake | First Englishman to sail around the globe | 20 | |
4380973701 | Cortez | Spanish conquistador - conquered Aztecs | 21 | |
4380978473 | Pizarro | Spanish conquistador - conquered Incas | 22 | |
4380983655 | Cartier | French explorer - claimed Canada for France | 23 | |
4380987059 | da Gama | Portuguese - first to find water route to Asia | 24 | |
4381000662 | Mughals | Muslims - ruled India - built the Taj Mahal - Akbar; Jahan- Muslim Hindu | 25 | |
4381018322 | Ottomans | Muslims - Asia Minor - coffee and ceramics | 26 | |
4381023485 | Songhai | Africans - traded salt and gold - Ghana, Mali; Timbuktu in western Africa - Mansa Musa | 27 | |
4381035108 | Japanese | Kicked out foreigners and became isolationists - Matthew Perry | 28 | |
4381039992 | Chinese | set up trading enclaves for foreigners to trade in - canton system | 29 | |
4381046740 | Aztecs | Native Americans civilization - Mexico - corn | 30 | |
4381055067 | Incas | Native American civilization - Peru - Andes Mts. - roads and bridges | 31 | |
4381068511 | Mayans | Native American civilization - Yucatan - Famous for pyramids - disappeared | 32 | |
4381106373 | Louis XVI | absolute monarch of France - brought a great culture to France - also caused problems by doing away with the Edict of Nantes - built Versailles | 33 | |
4381117520 | Sun King | nickname of Louis XVI | 34 | |
4381123837 | Fredrick the Great | absolute ruler of Prussia | 35 | |
4381125495 | Peter the Great | an absolute ruler of Russia - he wanted to westernize Russia - move capital closer to the water | 36 | |
4381141008 | Copernicus | Polish - heliocentric theory - feared the Church | 37 | |
4381145539 | Kepler | German - used math to prove that earth goes around the sun in an ellipse | 38 | |
4381150551 | Galileo | Italian - telescope to prove Copernicus right - declared a heretic | 39 | |
4381157166 | Harvey | English - blood circulates through the blood - "Harvey Heart" | 40 | |
4381165312 | Newton | English - developed calculus and the laws of gravity | 41 |
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