Pre-AP & AP World History PEOPLE REVIEW Flashcards

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