AP World History Key People Flashcards
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| 9606505275 | Hammurabi | King of Babylonia, responsible for creating a written law code |  | 0 |
| 9606505276 | Abraham | Hebrew Patriarch |  | 1 |
| 9606508937 | Zoroaster | Founder of Zoroastrianism |  | 2 |
| 9606513482 | Lao Tzu | Founder of Daoism |  | 3 |
| 9606513483 | Cyrus | Founder of Achaemenid Empire |  | 4 |
| 9606523170 | Siddhartha | Founder of Buddhism |  | 5 |
| 9606523171 | Confucius | Founder of Confuscianism |  | 6 |
| 9606526575 | Plato | Athenian Philosophy, allegory of the cave |  | 7 |
| 9606526576 | Alexander the Great | Conqueror of Persian Empire, king of Macedonia |  | 8 |
| 9606531396 | Ashoka Maurya | Mauryan Emperor who supported Buddhism |  | 9 |
| 9606534050 | Qin Shi Huangdi | Founder of China |  | 10 |
| 9606537849 | Augustus | First Roman Emperor |  | 11 |
| 9606537850 | Jesus | Founder of Christianity |  | 12 |
| 9606540607 | Constantine | Roman Emperor, converted to Christianity |  | 13 |
| 9606589313 | Muhammad | Prophet of Islam |  | 14 |
| 9606589314 | Xuanzang | Chinese monk who made a trip to India to collect Buddhist texts |  | 15 |
| 9606594013 | Charlemange | King of the Franks and the first Holy Roman Emperor |  | 16 |
| 9606597978 | Genghis Khan | Founder of the Mongol Empire |  | 17 |
| 9606597979 | Marco Polo | Italian traveler, traveled to China |  | 18 |
| 9606602515 | Kublai Khan | Fifth Khan of the Mongol Empire, founder of Yuan dynasty in China |  | 19 |
| 9606602516 | Mansa Musa | Emperor of Mali, made a pilgrimage to Mecca and helped spread Islam throughout Africa |  | 20 |
| 9606602517 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Traveler who traveled throughout the Muslim World |  | 21 |
| 9606606721 | Zhenghe | Chinese Explorer |  | 22 |
| 9606620326 | Sundiata | Founder of Mali Empire |  | 23 |
| 9606620327 | Prince Henry | Founder of a Portuguese navigational school |  | 24 |
| 9606620328 | Gutenberg | Inventor of the printing press |  | 25 |
| 9606623700 | Columbus | Spanish navigator who discovered the new world for Europe |  | 26 |
| 9606623701 | Martin Luther | Founder of Lutheranism, his 95 thesis began the Protestant Reformatoin |  | 27 |
| 9606628419 | Peter the Great | Russian Tsar who wanted to westernize Russia |  | 28 |
| 9606630644 | Louis XIV | "Sun King", King of France, ordered the construction of Versailles |  | 29 |
| 9609389366 | John Locke | Enlightenment thinker, believed in Natural Rights |  | 30 |
| 9609389367 | Montesquieu | Enlightenment thinker, three branches of government |  | 31 |
| 9609389368 | Voltaire | Enlightenment thinker, championed individual freedom |  | 32 |
| 9609391602 | Rousseau | Enlightenment thinker, believed that government should be freely elected by the people |  | 33 |
| 9609391603 | Adam Smith | Enlightenment thinker, free market, supply and demand |  | 34 |
| 9609391604 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Haitian Revolutionary Leader |  | 35 |
| 9609394419 | Robespierre | French Revolution radical leader |  | 36 |
| 9609394420 | Wollstonecraft | Enlightenment thinker, champion of women's rights |  | 37 |
| 9609396721 | Simon Bolivar | Leader of Latin American revolutions |  | 38 |
| 9609396723 | Shaka Zulu | Monarch of Zulu Kingdom |  | 39 |
| 9609399600 | Matthew Perry | Commodore of U.S. Navy. opened up Japan for trade with the Western World |  | 40 |
| 9609399601 | John Stuart Mill | British philosopher, promoted liberalism |  | 41 |
| 9609401323 | Charles Darwin | Made contribution to the study of evolution, survival of the fittest |  | 42 |
| 9609404448 | Hong Xiuquan | Leader of the Taiping Rebellion |  | 43 |
| 9609404449 | Otto von Bismarck | Prussian statesmen and German Nationalist |  | 44 |
| 9609404450 | Karl Marx | German philosopher, author of the communist manifesto |  | 45 |
| 9609407466 | Mangal Pandey | Leader of the Sepoy Rebellion |  | 46 |
| 9609407467 | Leopold II | King of Belgium, responsible for the colonization of the Congo |  | 47 |
| 9609409637 | Wovoka | Founder of the Ghost Dance mvoement |  | 48 |
| 9609413948 | Gandhi | Leader of the Indian Independence movement and non-violence movement |  | 49 |
| 9609413949 | Lenin | Founder of the Soviet Union |  | 50 |
| 9609413950 | Jinnah | Muslim League Member, founder of Pakistan |  | 51 |
| 9609413951 | Joseph Stalin | Soviet union dictator after Lenin |  | 52 |
| 9609413952 | FDR | President of the United States during the Great Depression and WWII |  | 53 |
| 9609416331 | Adolf Hitler | Fuhrer of Nazi Germany |  | 54 |
| 9609416332 | Nehru | 1st President of India |  | 55 |
| 9609416333 | Ho Chi Minh | Founder of the communist party in Vietnam, leader of North Vietnam |  | 56 |
| 9609416361 | Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy |  | 57 |
| 9609418801 | Mao Zedong | Founder of the communist party in China |  | 58 |
| 9609418836 | Gregory Pincus | Inventor of the birth control pill |  | 59 |
| 9609420523 | Oppenheimer | Director of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb in the U.S. |  | 60 |
| 9609420524 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist leader of China after Mao Zedong |  | 61 |
| 9609424420 | Kwame Nkrumah | Ghana's first president |  | 62 |
| 9609426142 | Jonas Salk | Discovered the polio vaccine |  | 63 |
| 9609429318 | Pinochet | Chilean Dictator |  | 64 |
| 9609431859 | Gamal Nasser | Egyptian President |  | 65 |
| 9609431860 | Nelson Mandela | 1st black president of South Africa |  | 66 |
| 9609433518 | Pol Pot | Cambodian dictator |  | 67 |
| 9609433519 | Idi Amin | Ugandan dictator |  | 68 |
| 9609433520 | Thatcher | Female British prime minister |  | 69 |
| 9609435577 | MLK Jr | Leader of the non violence civil rights movement in the U.S. |  | 70 |
| 9609435578 | Gorbachev | Last leader of the Soviet Union |  | 71 |
| 9609437862 | Bin Laden | Al-Qaeda founder |  | 72 |
| 9773114212 | Francisco Franco | Nationalist leader in Spain |  | 73 |