APWH Must Know People (1450-1750) Flashcards

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