4417176150 | Julius Caesar | part of the triumvirate of Rome, took over rule, assassinated | 0 | |
4417176152 | Octavian | struggled for power after Julius Caesar died , given total control, first Roman emperor | 1 | |
4417176153 | Constantine | 330 C.E. established Constantinople, similar to Roman Empire, legalized Christianity | 2 | |
4417176154 | Justinian | reorganized law code in Byzantine Empire, built public works | 3 | |
4417176155 | Qin Shi Huangdi | 221 BCE leader of Qin Dynasty, strong military, standardization | 4 | |
4417176156 | Chandragupta Maurya | 324 BCE established Mauryan Empire, enforced power of state and caste | 5 | |
4417176157 | Asoka | ruled Mauryan Empire 265-238 BCE, expanded army, spread Buddhism | 6 | |
4417176158 | Chandra Gupta I | 320 CE, founder of Gupta Empire, expanded in India | 7 | |
4417176159 | Kumara Gupta | ruled Gupta Empire during "golden age", resurgence of Hinduism, flourishing | 8 | |
4417176160 | Siddhartha Gautama | 563 BCE, pilgrimage, founder of Buddhism, renamed Buddha | 9 | |
4417176161 | Wu | female emperor of Tang Dynasty, spread Buddhism | 10 | |
4417176164 | King Clovis | converted France to Christianity 400s | 11 | |
4417176165 | Charles Marlel | stopped Muslim advance in Battle of Tours (Muslim vs Franks) 732 | 12 | |
4417176166 | Charlemagne | 800-led Holy Roman Empire | 13 | |
4417176167 | Mansa Musa | 1324 King of Mali, hajj to Mecca | 14 | |
4417176168 | Ibn Battuta | mid 1300s- traveled around Muslim world | 15 | |
4417176169 | Pope Urban II | called for first crusades in 1095, Muslim vs Christian | 16 | |
4417176170 | Saladin | defeated Christians in Crusades, but allowed groups to coexist | 17 | |
4417176171 | Emperor Yonglo | leader of Ming Dynasty, promoted exploration, limited foreign access in 1433 | 18 | |
4417176172 | Zheng He | led 7 grand voyages to Indian Ocean under Yung Lo of Ming Dynasty | 19 | |
4417176173 | Genghis Khan | 1162- leader of Mongols, largest empire, expanded, ruthless | 20 | |
4417176174 | Thomas Aquinas | mid 1200s - combined logic and faith to promote Christians | 21 | |
4417176175 | Johannes Gutenberg | 1455 created movable type | 22 | |
4417176176 | Prince Henry the Navigator | leader of Portugal, promoted sailing around tip of Africa, sailing academies | 23 | |
4417176177 | Vasco De Gama | 1498 Portugal- sailed around tip of Africa to India and traded | 24 | |
4417176178 | Amerigo Vespucci | sailed to new world for Portugal, realized it was separate continent | 25 | |
4417176179 | Ferdinand Magellan | 1519- sailed for Spain to explore Pacific and landed in Philippines | 26 | |
4417176180 | Abel Tasman | 1640s Dutch explorer to Australia | 27 | |
4417176181 | James Cook | 1760s- British explorer sailed around Australia and Antarctica | 28 | |
4417176182 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador, attacked Aztecs - mexico | 29 | |
4417176183 | Francisco Pizaro | Spanish conqueror, dominated Incas in Peru | 30 | |
4417176185 | John Calvin | 1509-1564, Switz, opposed Catholic, idea of predestination | 31 | |
4417176186 | King Henry VIII | king of England, unhappy with power of Pope, divorced wife, created Anglican Church | 32 | |
4417176187 | King Henry IV | king of France, converted to Catholicism and passed Edict of Nantes (religious tolerance to Catholics and Protestants) | 33 | |
4417176189 | King Louis XIV | 1643-1715, absolute monarch, raised taxes, increased colonies, army, wealth | 34 | |
4417176190 | Peter the Great | Czar of Russia, westernized, expanded | 35 | |
4417176191 | Catherine the Great | 1762- ruler of Russia, considered herself enlightened, tight government control | 36 | |
4417176193 | Mehmed II | 1453- conquered Constantinople , leader of Ottoman Turks | 37 | |
4417176194 | Suleiman I | leader of Ottoman Turks, expanded into Europe | 38 | |
4417176195 | Shah Abbas | 1588-1629 leader of Safavid Persia, built capital city Isfahan, strong military | 39 | |
4417176196 | Nicholas Copernicus | Polish scientific revolution, fixed calendar, discovered heliocentric model | 40 | |
4417176197 | Johannes Kepler | German scientific revolution, simplified Copernicus model, planets orbited in ellipses | 41 | |
4417176198 | Galileo | Italian scientific revolution, used telescope, supported heliocentric model | 42 | |
4417176199 | Isaac Newton | English scientific revolution, advanced in calc, gravity, supported other scientific ideas | 43 | |
4417176200 | Thomas Hobbes | English, "natural state of man" is chaotic, humans create government to provide order | 44 | |
4417176201 | John Locke | English, "natural rights of man" are life, liberty, and property | 45 | |
4417176207 | Baron de Montesquieu | separation of powers | 46 | |
4417176209 | Voltaire | freedom of speech, press, religion | 47 | |
4417176210 | Rousseau | democracy, freedom of mankind (majority rules) | 48 | |
4417176211 | Denis Diderot | encyclopedia of Enlightenment ideas | 49 | |
4417176212 | Adam Smith | protection of private property by government | 50 | |
4417176213 | King Louis XVI | ruler of France by divine right, French Revolution | 51 | |
4417176214 | Napoleon | took control of France 1799, spread revolution ideas, increased empire, demanded loyalty | 52 | |
4417176215 | Toussaint L'ouverture | ex slave led slave revolts in Haiti | 53 | |
4417176216 | Simon Bolivar | fought in north of South America against Spain, dictated Peru after defeating Spain | 54 | |
4417176217 | Jose de San Martin | fought in south of South America against Spain | 55 | |
4417176218 | Jethro Tull | invented seed drill 1701 | 56 | |
4417176219 | James Hargreaves | invented spinning jenny | 57 | |
4417176220 | Richard Arkwright | crated water frame, harnessing water power | 58 | |
4417176221 | Thomas Newcomen | invented steam engine for water pump | 59 | |
4417176222 | James Watt | created steam engines for commercial use | 60 | |
4417176223 | George Stephenson | invented locomotive | 61 | |
4417176224 | Nikola Tesla | invented transmission without wires | 62 | |
4417176225 | Thomas Edison | created filament, phonograph, fuses | 63 | |
4417176226 | King Wilhelm I | leader of German unification in Prusssia | 64 | |
4417176227 | Otto Von Bismarck | prime minister of Germany, iron chancellor, behind the curtain | 65 | |
4417176228 | David Livingstone | Scottish, extensive exploration and proselytization, treated natives with respect | 66 | |
4417176229 | Henry Stanley | journalist into Africa, hired by Belgian King Leopold II to claim land | 67 | |
4417176230 | King George V | GB, went to India to be praised, darbar (public show of royal power) | 68 | |
4417176231 | Sun Yat Sen | Chinese nationalist, 3 principles of people | 69 | |
4417176232 | Porfirio Diaz | dictator of Mexico oppressive of poor, exiled | 70 | |
4417176234 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | assassinated by Serbians which was a direct cause of WWI | 71 | |
4417176235 | Czar Alexander II | freed serfs and established local government councils 1861 | 72 | |
4417176236 | Czar Nicholas II | industrialized Russia late 1800s | 73 | |
4417176238 | Francisco Franco | general of "rightists" in Spanish civil war, supported by Germany, victorious - fascist dictatorship | 74 | |
4417176239 | Neville Chamberlain | GB prime minister allowed Germany to have Sudetenland to avoid war | 75 | |
4417176241 | Douglas MacArthur | rebuilding process in japan | 76 | |
4417176243 | Joseph McCarthy | led witch hunts to find communist in USA | 77 | |
4417176244 | Nikita Khrushchev | replaced USSR after Stalin, blamed Stalin, tight control | 78 | |
4417176245 | Gamal Abder Nasser | Egypt, gained control of Suez Canal | 79 | |
4417176246 | Anwar Sadat | leader of Egypt after Nasser, allied with USA and made peace with Israel | 80 | |
4417176249 | Ayatollah Khomeini | conservative Shiite cleric in Iran, revolted against government (Shah) | 81 | |
4417176250 | Leonid Brezhnev | replaced Krushchev, created Brezhnev doctrine | 82 | |
4417176252 | Bin Laden | Afghan army, Taliban, 9/11 | 83 | |
4417176254 | Mao Zedong | communist leader of China, supported peasants | 84 | |
4417176256 | Jawaharlal Nehru | first prime minister of India | 85 | |
4417176258 | Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of USSR, developed glasnost and perestroika, repealed Brezhnev doctrine | 86 | |
4417176260 | Putin | currently in power of Russia, dictator, opposes individual freedoms | 87 | |
4417176261 | Kim Jong Un | North Korea, powerful dictator communist | 88 | |
4417176266 | Deng Xiapong | 1978 replaces Mao as communist leader in China, increased economy | 89 |
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