AP Flashcards

8592925972	Sundiata	West African monarch who founded the western Sudanese empire of Mali	0
8592926674	Prince Henry	Portuguese prince who sponsored early voyages of discovery along the west coast of Africa. Son of King John I, established court at Sagres. Portuguese caravel was developed.	1
8592926675	Gutenberg	German generally regarded as the inventor of the movable type	2
8592930570	Columbus	Genoese navigator in service of Spain, credited founding of America	3
8592931748	Guru Nanak	Indian religious leader and founder of Sikhs, born Hindu. came to regard some of Hindu practices and beliefs as superstitious, especially when compared to those of the Muslims	4
8592933845	Martin Luther	German religious leader, father of Protestant Reformation and founder of Lutheranism	5
8592934450	Suleiman I	Sultan of Ottoman empire, known as "the magnificent" and "the lawgiver" for expansion of empire	6
8592935652	Wu Chengen	chinese author, author of Xiyouji (journey to the west)	7
8592936534	Akbar	Great Mughal emporor expanded Mughal control over all of north India, later in to Deccan, adopted policy of tolerating non-muslims, reformed finances and taxes	8
8592938274	Cervantes	Spanish novelist, poet and play wright. author of don Quixote, classic novel of romance	9
8592939510	Shakespeare	English Poet and playwright, considered greatest of all dramatists. Wrote sonnets and published in 1609.	10
8592944150	Galileo Galilei	Italian mathematician, physicist, and astronomber	11
8592944957	Louis XIV	French King, successor of his father, Louis XIII.. his reign marketed height of absolutism in France	12
8592946929	Isaac Newton	english mathematician and physicist, discovered laws of motion and universal gravitation	13
8592949091	Kangix	extended China's rule to Taiwan, Tibet, and outer Mongolia, and encouraged the teaching of Western mathematics and astronomy	14
8592951053	Peter the Great	his reign was dominated by his effors to modernize and westernize Russia, created St. Petersburg, brought russia into the European sphere	15