9606505275 | Hammurabi | King of Babylonia, responsible for creating a written law code | ![]() | 0 |
9606505276 | Abraham | Hebrew Patriarch | ![]() | 1 |
9606508937 | Zoroaster | Founder of Zoroastrianism | ![]() | 2 |
9606513482 | Lao Tzu | Founder of Daoism | ![]() | 3 |
9606513483 | Cyrus | Founder of Achaemenid Empire | ![]() | 4 |
9606523170 | Siddhartha | Founder of Buddhism | ![]() | 5 |
9606523171 | Confucius | Founder of Confuscianism | ![]() | 6 |
9606526575 | Plato | Athenian Philosophy, allegory of the cave | ![]() | 7 |
9606526576 | Alexander the Great | Conqueror of Persian Empire, king of Macedonia | ![]() | 8 |
9606531396 | Ashoka Maurya | Mauryan Emperor who supported Buddhism | ![]() | 9 |
9606534050 | Qin Shi Huangdi | Founder of China | ![]() | 10 |
9606537849 | Augustus | First Roman Emperor | ![]() | 11 |
9606537850 | Jesus | Founder of Christianity | ![]() | 12 |
9606540607 | Constantine | Roman Emperor, converted to Christianity | ![]() | 13 |
9606589313 | Muhammad | Prophet of Islam | ![]() | 14 |
9606589314 | Xuanzang | Chinese monk who made a trip to India to collect Buddhist texts | ![]() | 15 |
9606594013 | Charlemange | King of the Franks and the first Holy Roman Emperor | ![]() | 16 |
9606597978 | Genghis Khan | Founder of the Mongol Empire | ![]() | 17 |
9606597979 | Marco Polo | Italian traveler, traveled to China | ![]() | 18 |
9606602515 | Kublai Khan | Fifth Khan of the Mongol Empire, founder of Yuan dynasty in China | ![]() | 19 |
9606602516 | Mansa Musa | Emperor of Mali, made a pilgrimage to Mecca and helped spread Islam throughout Africa | ![]() | 20 |
9606602517 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Traveler who traveled throughout the Muslim World | ![]() | 21 |
9606606721 | Zhenghe | Chinese Explorer | ![]() | 22 |
9606620326 | Sundiata | Founder of Mali Empire | ![]() | 23 |
9606620327 | Prince Henry | Founder of a Portuguese navigational school | ![]() | 24 |
9606620328 | Gutenberg | Inventor of the printing press | ![]() | 25 |
9606623700 | Columbus | Spanish navigator who discovered the new world for Europe | ![]() | 26 |
9606623701 | Martin Luther | Founder of Lutheranism, his 95 thesis began the Protestant Reformatoin | ![]() | 27 |
9606628419 | Peter the Great | Russian Tsar who wanted to westernize Russia | ![]() | 28 |
9606630644 | Louis XIV | "Sun King", King of France, ordered the construction of Versailles | ![]() | 29 |
9609389366 | John Locke | Enlightenment thinker, believed in Natural Rights | ![]() | 30 |
9609389367 | Montesquieu | Enlightenment thinker, three branches of government | ![]() | 31 |
9609389368 | Voltaire | Enlightenment thinker, championed individual freedom | ![]() | 32 |
9609391602 | Rousseau | Enlightenment thinker, believed that government should be freely elected by the people | ![]() | 33 |
9609391603 | Adam Smith | Enlightenment thinker, free market, supply and demand | ![]() | 34 |
9609391604 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Haitian Revolutionary Leader | ![]() | 35 |
9609394419 | Robespierre | French Revolution radical leader | ![]() | 36 |
9609394420 | Wollstonecraft | Enlightenment thinker, champion of women's rights | ![]() | 37 |
9609396721 | Simon Bolivar | Leader of Latin American revolutions | ![]() | 38 |
9609396723 | Shaka Zulu | Monarch of Zulu Kingdom | ![]() | 39 |
9609399600 | Matthew Perry | Commodore of U.S. Navy. opened up Japan for trade with the Western World | ![]() | 40 |
9609399601 | John Stuart Mill | British philosopher, promoted liberalism | ![]() | 41 |
9609401323 | Charles Darwin | Made contribution to the study of evolution, survival of the fittest | ![]() | 42 |
9609404448 | Hong Xiuquan | Leader of the Taiping Rebellion | ![]() | 43 |
9609404449 | Otto von Bismarck | Prussian statesmen and German Nationalist | ![]() | 44 |
9609404450 | Karl Marx | German philosopher, author of the communist manifesto | ![]() | 45 |
9609407466 | Mangal Pandey | Leader of the Sepoy Rebellion | ![]() | 46 |
9609407467 | Leopold II | King of Belgium, responsible for the colonization of the Congo | ![]() | 47 |
9609409637 | Wovoka | Founder of the Ghost Dance mvoement | ![]() | 48 |
9609413948 | Gandhi | Leader of the Indian Independence movement and non-violence movement | ![]() | 49 |
9609413949 | Lenin | Founder of the Soviet Union | ![]() | 50 |
9609413950 | Jinnah | Muslim League Member, founder of Pakistan | ![]() | 51 |
9609413951 | Joseph Stalin | Soviet union dictator after Lenin | ![]() | 52 |
9609413952 | FDR | President of the United States during the Great Depression and WWII | ![]() | 53 |
9609416331 | Adolf Hitler | Fuhrer of Nazi Germany | ![]() | 54 |
9609416332 | Nehru | 1st President of India | ![]() | 55 |
9609416333 | Ho Chi Minh | Founder of the communist party in Vietnam, leader of North Vietnam | ![]() | 56 |
9609416361 | Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy | ![]() | 57 |
9609418801 | Mao Zedong | Founder of the communist party in China | ![]() | 58 |
9609418836 | Gregory Pincus | Inventor of the birth control pill | ![]() | 59 |
9609420523 | Oppenheimer | Director of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb in the U.S. | ![]() | 60 |
9609420524 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist leader of China after Mao Zedong | ![]() | 61 |
9609424420 | Kwame Nkrumah | Ghana's first president | ![]() | 62 |
9609426142 | Jonas Salk | Discovered the polio vaccine | ![]() | 63 |
9609429318 | Pinochet | Chilean Dictator | ![]() | 64 |
9609431859 | Gamal Nasser | Egyptian President | ![]() | 65 |
9609431860 | Nelson Mandela | 1st black president of South Africa | ![]() | 66 |
9609433518 | Pol Pot | Cambodian dictator | ![]() | 67 |
9609433519 | Idi Amin | Ugandan dictator | ![]() | 68 |
9609433520 | Thatcher | Female British prime minister | ![]() | 69 |
9609435577 | MLK Jr | Leader of the non violence civil rights movement in the U.S. | ![]() | 70 |
9609435578 | Gorbachev | Last leader of the Soviet Union | ![]() | 71 |
9609437862 | Bin Laden | Al-Qaeda founder | ![]() | 72 |
9773114212 | Francisco Franco | Nationalist leader in Spain | ![]() | 73 |
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