162546536 | Muhammad | Traveled through the Arabian Peninsula proclaiming he was the last prophet of Allah, wrote the Qu'ran | 0 | |
162546537 | Abu Bakr | One of Muhammad's first followers in Mecca, became caliph after his death | 1 | |
162546538 | Ali | Believed to be the next Caliph by the Shi'ites (Shia), assassinated and succeeded by his son Hasan | 2 | |
162546539 | Hasan | Under pressure from a prominent family in Mecca, relinquished his title to make way for the Umayyad Dynasty | 3 | |
162546540 | Charles Martel | Frankish leader who stopped Muslim advance into Paris, preventing Islamic Empire from flourishing in Europe beyond parts of Spain/Italy | 4 | |
162546541 | Muhammad al-Razi | Muslim who published a massive medical encyclopedia unlike anything before it | 5 | |
162546542 | Justinian | Ruler of the Byzantine Empire from 527-565; somewhat restored glory of Roman Empire in Constantinople | 6 | |
162546543 | St. Cyril | Orthodox Christian, used Greek alphabet to create a Slavic alphabet | 7 | |
162546544 | Vladimir | Russian prince from Kiev, abandoned traditional pagan religion for Christianity | 8 | |
162546545 | King Clovis | Leader of the Franks, a Germanic tribe proved critical in stopping the Muslim advance into Paris | 9 | |
162546546 | Pepin | Successor of his father, Charles Martel, for Carolingian Dynasty; had his succession certified by the pope | 10 | |
162546547 | Charlemagne | Crowned by Pope like his father, Pepin; built the Holy Roman Empire | 11 | |
162546548 | Otto the Great | Declared Holy Roman Emperor in 962 | 12 | |
162546549 | William the Conqueror | Duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England | 13 | |
162546550 | King Hugh Capet | King of France who ruled only a small area around Paris in 987 | 14 | |
162546551 | Joan of Arc | Lead statehood of France after England's occupation of French-speaking territories, a teenage girl | 15 | |
162546552 | Queen Isabella | Ruler of Castille, united Spain in the years after the Hundred Years' War | 16 | |
162546553 | Ferdinand | Married Queen Isabella, was heir to the Spanish Kingdom of Aragon; marriage united most of Spain in a single monarchy | 17 | |
162546554 | Ivan the Terrible | Centralized power over the entire Russian sphere by mid-1500s | 18 | |
162546555 | Xuanzong | Emperor of Tang Dynasty responsible for expanding territories into parts of Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, and Korea | 19 | |
162546556 | Wu Zhao | Empress of China after the death of her husband, Emperor Gaozong, during Tang Dynasty | 20 | |
162546557 | Prince Shotoku | Borrowed bureaucratic and legal reforms based on successes of Tang Dynasty in China (Taika Reforms) | 21 | |
162546558 | Timur Lang | Mongol who lead invasion of India | 22 | |
162546559 | Genghis Khan | Unified nomadic tribes in Mongolia, led Mongol invasion of China in 1234 | 23 | |
162546560 | Kublai Khan | Lead Yuan Dynasty in China, Pax Mongolica | 24 | |
162546561 | Mansa Musa | Leader of Mali who built capital at Timbuktu, made pilgrimage to Mecca | 25 | |
162546562 | Sonni Ali | Established Songhai Empire by conquering entire region of West Africa | 26 | |
162547841 | Ibn Battuta | Wrote in Dar al-Islam, worked in government as a qadi (adviser) almost everywhere he went, promoted "proper" Islam | 27 | |
162547842 | Marco Polo | Traveled from Italy to China during Mongol times, inspired Columbus and others to attempt to find passage to the East | 28 | |
162547843 | Zhenghe | Voyages from 1405-1433 for Ming China | 29 |
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