Terms : Hide Images
| 292312107 | Akhenaten | -Egyptian pharaoh -built new capital at Amarna, fostered a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk -the Amarna letters, largely from his reign, preserve official correspondence w/ subjects and neighbors | 0 | |
| 292312108 | Ramesses II | -a long lived ruler of new Kingdom Egypt -reached an accomodation w/ the Hittites of Anatolia after a standoff in battle -he built on a grand scale throughout Egypt | 1 | |
| 292312109 | Cyrus | -founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire -revered in the traditions of Iran and the subject peoples, he employed both Persians and Medes in his administration and respected the institutions and beliefs of his subject peoples | 2 | |
| 292312110 | Darius I | -3rd ruler of the Persian Empire -crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major gov posts to Persians -established a system of provinces and tribute -began construction of Persepolis -expanded Persian control in the east and west | 3 | |
| 292312111 | Pericles | -aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through transformation to full democracy for all male citizens -supervised the construction of the Acropolis -pursued a policy of imperial expansion that led to the Peloponessian war | 4 | |
| 292312112 | Constantine | -Roman emperor -moved the capital to Constantinople -made Christianity a favored religion | 5 | |
| 292312113 | Shi Huangdi | -founder of the Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese empire -remembered for his ruthless conquests of rival states, standardization of practices, and forcible organization of labor for military and engineering tasks -buried w/ 7,000 life size terracotta clay soldiers | 6 | |
| 292312114 | Gaozu | -throne name of Liu Bang -one of the rebel leaders who brought down the Qin dynasty -founded the Han dynasty | 7 | |
| 292312115 | Ashoka | -3rd ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India -converted to Buddhism and broadcast his beliefs on inscribed stones and pillars | 8 | |
| 292312116 | Charlemagne | -King of the Franks, emperor -through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire, which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy -though illiterate, he sponsored a brief intellectual revival | 9 | |
| 292312117 | Li Shimin | -one of the founders of the Tang Empire -its second emperor -led the expansion of the empire into Central Asia | 10 | |
| 292312118 | Wu Zhao | -female emperor of the Tang -married into the imperial family, seized control of the gov, and declared herself emperor -based her legitimacy on being a bodhissatva -favored Buddhists and Daoists over Confucianists in he court -typically described as evil by woman-opposers, truth unknown | 11 | |
| 292312119 | Genghis Khan | -the title of Timujin when he ruled the Mongols -founder of the Mongol Empire | 12 | |
| 292312120 | Il-Khan | -a secondary or peripheral khan based in Persia -founded by a grandson of Genghis Khan | 13 | |
| 292312121 | Nasir al-Din Tusi | -Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernicun model of the solar system | 14 | |
| 292312122 | Khubilai Khan | -last of the Mongol great khans -founder of the Yuan empire | 15 | |
| 292312123 | Ibn Battuta | -Moroccan Muslim scholar -the most widely traveled of his time -wrote a detailed acct. of his travels to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan | 16 | |
| 292312124 | Ptolemies | -the Macedonian dynasty -descended from one of Alexander the Great's officers that ruled Egypt for 3 centuries -from their magnificent capital at Alexandria, they largely took over the system created by Egyptian pharaohs to extract the wealth of the land, rewarding Greeks and Hellenized non-Greeks serving in the military and administration | 17 | |
| 292312125 | Octavian/Augustus | -founder of the Roman Principate, the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate -after defeating all rivals, he laid the groundwork for several centuries of stability and prosperity in the Roman Empire | 18 | |
| 292312126 | Timur | -member of the prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate -through conquest, gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran -consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox and his descendants maintained his empire for nearly a century and founded the Mughal empire | 19 | |
| 292312127 | Rasid al-Din | -a Jew turned Muslim -advisor to the Il-Khan ruler Ghazan, who converted to Islam on _____'s advice -produced a history of the world that was published | 20 | |
| 292312128 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico for Spain | 21 | |
| 292312129 | Moctezuma II | -last Aztec emperor -overthrown by Hernan Cortes | 22 | |
| 292312130 | Atahualpa | -last ruling Inca emperor of Peru -executed by the Spanish | 23 | |
| 292312131 | Fransisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru | 24 | |
| 292312132 | Tupac Amaru II | -member of Inca aristocracy -led a rebellion against Spanish authorites in Peru -captured and executed w/ his wife and other members of his family | 25 | |
| 292312133 | Suiko | -a woman from the immigrant aristocratic family of Soga -became empress of Japan after the death of her husband -occupied the throne longer than any other ruler up to the 19th cent -Asuka, her capital, saw a flowering of Buddhist art | 26 | |
| 292312134 | Raziya | -daughter of Iltutmish, who designated her heir to the Delhi Sultanate -wise, just, and generous -a benefactor to her kingdom, a dispenser of justice, the protector of her subjects, and the leader of her armies -dressed like a man and led troops atop an elephant -imprisoned by Turkish chiefs and escaped -killed by robbers | 27 | |
| 292312135 | Dante | -wrote The Divine Comedy, a long elegant poem -foreshadows the literary fashions of the later Italian Renaissance -his journey through the seven layers of hell, purgatory, and heaven -among the greatest writers of the Later Middle Ages -wrote in the vernacular spoken in Tuscany | 28 | |
| 292312136 | Chaucer | -wrote The Canterbury Tales, a lengthy poem and humorous tale of pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Thomas a Becket shrine in Canterbury -influenced by Dante -wrote in vernacular English -among the greatest writers of the Later Middle Ages | 29 | |
| 292312137 | Boccaccio | -wrote Decameron, an earthly tale w/ lots in common w/ Chaucer's -vernacular writings similar to Dante's -under Petrach's influence...writing in classical Latin | 30 | |
| 292312138 | Erasmus | -produced a critical edition of the New Testament in Greek -corrected many errors and mistranslations in the widely used Latin version -wrote in classical Latin influencial moral guides | 31 | |
| 292312140 | Petrarch | -humanist writer -proclaimed the revival of the classical Greco-Roman tradition they had felt for centuries had lain buried under the rubble of the Middle Ages | 32 | |
| 292312141 | Giotto | -single handedly revived the "lost art of painting" -in religious scenes, he replaced stiff, staring Byzantine figures w/ more natural and human portraits w/ whose emotions of grief and love viewers could identify -his saints inhabited earthly landscapes | 33 | |
| 292312142 | Leonardo da Vinci | -Mona Lisa (used oil paints) -worked in many media (bronze sculptures and frescoes-painting on wet plaster: The Last Supper) -his notebooks contain imaginative designs for airplanes, submarines, and tanks | 34 | |
| 292312143 | Michaelangelo | -painted frescoes of biblical scenes on the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel in the Vatican -sculpted statues of David and Moses -designed the dome for a new St. Peter's Basilica in Rome | 35 | |
| 292312144 | Copernicus | -heliocentric model of the solar system -wrote On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies | 36 | |
| 292312145 | Tycho Brahe | -best observatory in Europe | 37 | |
| 292312146 | Kepler | -elliptical orbits -proved heliocentric theory | 38 | |
| 292312147 | Galileo Galilei | -telescope -put on trial for his ideas | 39 | |
| 293075436 | Juvaini | -wrote the 1st comprehensive account of the rise of the Mongols under Ghengis Khan -inspired the work of Rashin al-Din (produced the history of the world) | 40 |
