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| 1459611327 | Bartolomeu Dias | awesome Portuguese explorer who was the first one to sail around the tip of Africa (1488) | 0 | |
| 1459611328 | Christopher Columbus | not so awesome Italian explorer who decided to work for the Spanish crown; made four voyages to Americas (Greater and Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, C. America)... knew that he discovered America (only pretended not to know); DID NOT DISCOVER THAT THE EARTH IS ROUND !!! | 1 | |
| 1459611329 | Martin Luther | German monk who believed that the Catholic church was growing corrupt (distribution of indulgences); invented Lutheran religion - led to Protestantism, and eventually the Protestant Reformation | 2 | |
| 1459611330 | Hernan Cortes | (his name has accents); Spanish conquistador who was responsible (in large part) for the downfall of the Aztecs | 3 | |
| 1459611331 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who took on the Incan Empire with an army of about 180 soldiers vs 30,000 Incans; responsible for the murder of the last Incan leader, Atahualpa | 4 | |
| 1459611332 | Akbar | awesome Mughal emperor ("Allah Akbar!") who married a Rajput princes; tripled the size and wealth of Mughal Kingdom, and translated many famous Sanskrit scriptures | 5 | |
| 1459611333 | Atahualpa | last Incan emperor; killed by Pizarro | 6 | |
| 1459611334 | Moctezuma II | emperor of Aztecs; helped expand empire and widen gap between social classes; killed by Cortés | 7 | |
| 1459611335 | Elizabeth I | last monarch of Tudor family; 'Virgin Queen'; Elizabethan Era - time of great prosperity for England, credited with the defeat of the Spanish armada | 8 | |
| 1459611336 | Louis XIV | known as THE SUN KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :); built palace of Versailles; longest ruling monarch, eliminated feudalism from France | 9 | |
| 1459611337 | Peter the Great | one of the great leaders of the Russian empire | 10 | |
| 1459611338 | King Nzinga | also known as Afonso I; famous for attempting to convert his kingdom of Congo to Christianity | 11 | |
| 1459611339 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate | 12 | |
| 1459611340 | Aurangzeb | 6th Mughal emperor and an expansionist; with his death came its decline | 13 | |
| 1459611341 | Suleiman the Magnificent | 10th and longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire; expanded empire until he was stopped at the Siege of Vienna; awesome poet | 14 | |
| 1459611342 | Shah Ismail | founder of Safavid Dynasty; converted Iran to Shi'ite; created possibly the most powerful empire in Persia; awesome poet | 15 | |
| 1459611343 | Shakespeare | I think we know who this is... English (1564-1616); famous for Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, etc. | 16 | |
| 1459611344 | Cervantes | Spanish version of Shakespeare; famous for Don Quixote | 17 | |
| 1459611345 | Sundiata | founder of the Mali empire; famous 'magical battle' with Sumanguru | 18 |
