AP World: Unit Four People Flashcards
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164553113 | Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin in 1793 | 0 | |
164553114 | James Watt | Improved the steam engine in 1769 | 1 | |
164553115 | Robert Fulton | Built the first steamship in 1807 | 2 | |
164553116 | George Stephenson | Built the first steam-powered locomotive in the 1820s | 3 | |
164553117 | Charles Darwin | Developed concept of evolution by means of natural selection | 4 | |
164553118 | Adam Smith | Wrote "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776, promoting capitalism | 5 | |
164553119 | Karl Marx | German economist and philosopher, wrote "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848, promoting socialism and communism | 6 | |
164553120 | Rudyard Kipling | Wrote "White Man's Burden" to describe how white people were obligated to dominate other people | 7 | |
164553121 | Robert Clive | Led the British East India Company, ridding India of the French | 8 | |
164553122 | Matthew Perry | Arrived in Japan on a steamboat in 1853, sparking | 9 | |
164553123 | Muhammed Ali | Defeated the French and Ottomans when Napoleon tried to conquer Egypt | 10 | |
164553124 | Abbas I | Halted Muhammed Ali's westernization attempts | 11 | |
164553125 | Thomas Paine | Led many colonists to support American Revolution, wrote "Common Sense" | 12 | |
164553126 | Maximilien Robespierre | Led Committee of Public Safety and radical phases of French Revolution | 13 | |
164553127 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Became emperor of the French in 1804, failed to defeat Great Britain and gone by 1814 | 14 | |
164553128 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Led violent revolution in Haiti | 15 | |
164571991 | Simon Bolivar | Tutored on ideals of Rousseau, used knowledge to declare Venequela's independence from Spain | 16 | |
164571992 | Jose de San Martin | Creole who led revolution for Argentina | 17 | |
164571993 | John VI | Portuguese king who fled to Brazil upon Napoleon's invasion of Portugal | 18 | |
164571994 | Pedro | John VI's son who was left in Brazil after John left, declared independence from Portugal | 19 | |
164571995 | Pedro II | Ruled Brazil through much of the 1800s, responsible for abolition of slavery in 1888 | 20 | |
164571996 | Miguel Hidalgo | Creole priest who led revolt in Mexico against Spanish rule | 21 | |
164571997 | William I | Appointed Otto von Bismarck to prime minister of Prussia, named German emperor | 22 | |
164571998 | Otto von Bismarck | Defeated France (Franco-Prussian War) to create Germany, crowned King William I as emperor | 23 | |
165022566 | William II | Crowned German emperor in 1888, wanted to put his own mark on Germany, fired Otto von Bismarck | 24 | |
165022567 | Alexander II | Issued the Emancipation Edict (abolished serfdom, did little good) among other reforms for Russia | 25 | |
165022568 | Nicholas II | Ordered his troops to fire on protestors on Bloody Sunday in 1905 | 26 | |
165022569 | Peter Stolypin | Established as Prime Minister of Russia in 1906 | 27 |