3777722642 | Abraham | Founder of Judaism | 0 | |
3777727679 | Moses | Led Jews out of Egypt in the exodus | 1 | |
3777731778 | Gautama | Founder of Buddhism | ![]() | 2 |
3777736504 | Jesus of Nazareth | Founder of Christianity - according to Christians he's the messiah | ![]() | 3 |
3777740068 | Allah | Islamic name of God | ![]() | 4 |
3777741916 | Muhammad | Founder of Islam | ![]() | 5 |
3777747480 | Michelangelo | Renaissance artist - painted Sistine Chapel and sculpt la pieta and David | ![]() | 6 |
3777753060 | Erasmus | Most famous Christian humanist | ![]() | 7 |
3777754992 | Shakespeare | Renaissance playwright and writer of sonnets | ![]() | 8 |
3777769461 | Turks | Muslims from Asia Minnor - defeated Constantinope - renamed it Istanbul - traded coffee and ceramics - spread Islam to Middle East, North Africa, and Balkan Peninsula | ![]() | 9 |
3777779771 | Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance artist - painted Mona Lisa and the Last Supper | ![]() | 10 |
3777783493 | Pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church | ![]() | 11 |
3777788571 | Johannes Gutenberg | Invented the printing press, helped Renaissance ideas spread | ![]() | 12 |
3777797984 | Martin Luther | First to ever break from Catholic Church, German monk, Faith | ![]() | 13 |
3777801613 | John Calvin | God predestines certain people to go to heaven | ![]() | 14 |
3777804836 | Jesuits | Catholic order that proselytized (convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another) for all over the world for Catholic Church | ![]() | 15 |
3777819311 | Elizabeth I | Combined Catholic and Protestant to come up with Anglican Church | ![]() | 16 |
3777823359 | Henry VIII | Broke away from the Catholic Church because of divorce | ![]() | 17 |
3777828007 | Prince Henry | Portugal - brought people together to study navigation | ![]() | 18 |
3777866055 | Columbus | Wanted to sail west around the world to get to Asia - landed in Caribbean - thought he was in India | ![]() | 19 |
3777870001 | Magellan | His crew was first to circumnavigate the globe | ![]() | 20 |
3777872807 | Drake | First Englishman to sail around the globe | ![]() | 21 |
3777877330 | Cortez | Spanish conquistador -conquered Aztecs | ![]() | 22 |
3777879786 | Pizarro | Spanish conquistador - conquered Incas | ![]() | 23 |
3777886062 | Cartier | French explorer - claimed Canada for France | ![]() | 24 |
3777888581 | Da Gama | Portuguese - first to find water route to Asia | ![]() | 25 |
3777902838 | Mughals | Muslims - ruled India - built Taj Mahal | ![]() | 26 |
3777905437 | Ottomans | Muslims -Asia Minor - coffee and ceramics | ![]() | 27 |
3777907506 | Songhai | Africans - traded salt and gold | ![]() | 28 |
3777911617 | Japanese | Kicked out foreigners and became isolationists | ![]() | 29 |
3777915525 | Chinese | Set up trading enclaves for foreigners to trade in | ![]() | 30 |
3777919417 | Aztecs | Native American civilization - Mexico -corn | ![]() | 31 |
3777923875 | Incas | Native American civilization - Peru - Andes Mts. - roads & bridges | ![]() | 32 |
3777930656 | Louis XIV | Absolute monarch of France - brought a great culture to France also caused problems by doing away wit the Edict of Nantes - built Versailles | ![]() | 33 |
3777942664 | Sun King | Nickname of Louis XIV | ![]() | 34 |
3777945561 | Frederick the Great | Absolute ruler of Prussia | ![]() | 35 |
3777951898 | Peter the Great | Absolute ruler of Russia - he wanted to westernize Russia | ![]() | 36 |
3976217854 | Copernicus | Polish -heliocentric theory, feared the church | ![]() | 37 |
3976223646 | Kepler | German-used math to prove that earth goes around the sun in an ellipse | ![]() | 38 |
3976231105 | Galileo | Italian-used telescope to prove Copernicus was right, declared a heretic | ![]() | 39 |
3976240681 | Harvey | English-blood circulates through the body | ![]() | 40 |
3976244604 | Newton | English-developed calculus and the laws of gravity | ![]() | 41 |
3976249650 | Montesquieu | French-wrote SPIRIT OF LAWS, believed in separation of power | ![]() | 42 |
3976277232 | Mozart | Austrian-great composer, began composing at age 5 | ![]() | 43 |
3976292432 | Voltaire | French-believed in freedom of speech, separation of church and state | ![]() | 44 |
3976296646 | Rousseau | French-SOCIAL CONTRACT, government is only a contract and not that necessary | ![]() | 45 |
3976302735 | Hobbes | English-used natural law to say that people need an absolute monarch because they are naturally bad -wrote Leviathan | ![]() | 46 |
3976315305 | Locke | English-used natural law, wrote TWO TREATISES ON GOV'T: man has rights and is generally good - gov't to protect our rights, influenced Jefferson | ![]() | 47 |
3976383094 | Jefferson | American-wrote Declaration of Independence | ![]() | 48 |
3976395713 | Back | Second great composer of Enligtenment | ![]() | 49 |
3976403550 | Delacrouix | French -painted LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE, and nature scenes | ![]() | 50 |
3976452602 | Cervantes | Spanish-novelist, wrote DON QUIXOTE | ![]() | 51 |
3976464285 | William and Mary | Rulers of England after Glorious Revolution - had less power than Parliament | ![]() | 52 |
3976468744 | Napoleon | Dictator of France - conquers Europe, spreads Code of Laws | ![]() | 53 |
3976480758 | Mettiernich | Austrian prince - Congress of Vienna, balance of power - kings in power | 54 | |
3976491507 | Charles I | King of England - wants to be absolute ruler, executed after civil war | ![]() | 55 |
3976496906 | Cromwell | Puritan- Led English Civil War - then became dictator | ![]() | 56 |
3976504448 | Third Estate | French poor and middle class - begin revolution at Bastile | ![]() | 57 |
3976515872 | Louis XVI | French absolute ruler - executed in Reign of Terror | ![]() | 58 |
3976669290 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | led slave revolt in Haiti - inspired by the French Revolution | ![]() | 59 |
3976698856 | Bolivar | Led revolutions all over Latin America | ![]() | 60 |
3976710467 | Cavour | adviser to king of Sardinia - united N. Italy | ![]() | 61 |
3977215136 | Garibaldi | guerrilla warfare - united S. Italy with N. Italy | ![]() | 62 |
3977221407 | Bismarck | realpolitik - "blood and iron" - Prussian who created Germany | ![]() | 63 |
3977240721 | Whitney | Cotton gin - clean cotton faster - need for slaves grows | ![]() | 64 |
3977263049 | Watt | Steam engine - work now done by machines instead of human power | ![]() | 65 |
3977269591 | Bessemer | Invented steel, now machines could be made stronger and resistant to fire | ![]() | 66 |
3977279727 | Smith | Capitalism and laissez-faire - WEALTH OF NATIONS - profits make people work | ![]() | 67 |
3977287333 | Jenner | made world's first vaccination - small pox | ![]() | 68 |
3977302481 | Pasteur | Discovered germs/bacteria | ![]() | 69 |
3977321856 | Cmdr. Perry | Used US Navy to get Japan to open up to trade | 70 | |
3977325807 | Karl Marx | socialism - COMMUNIST MANIFESTO - proletariat to rise up and revolt | ![]() | 71 |
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