AP World History - Important People Flashcards

13831641135	Hammurabi	Babylonian King with first law code	0
13831641136	Homo Sapiens	Scientific Name for Humans	1
13831641137	Archaeologist	scientist who use radiocarbon dating to study the past	2
13831641138	Abraham	founder of the Jewish faith	3
13831641139	Moses	Jewish leader who was given 10 Commandments	4
13831641140	Sumerians	First Civilization created the wheel, ziggurats, and cuneiform	5
13831641141	Asoka	ruler of Mauryan empire who sent missionaries to spread Buddhism into Asia	6
13831641142	Siddhartha Guatama	founder of Buddhism	7
13831641143	Qin Shi Huangdi	First Emperor of China	8
13831641144	Confucius	wrote the Analects and founded Confucianism a Chinese philosophy focused on education and respect	9
13831641145	Lao-tze	founder of Daoism focused on harmony with nature and balance	10
13831641146	Pericles	leader of Athens who expanded democracy and oversaw golden age after the Persian Wars	11
13831641147	Draco	Athenian tyrant with harsh laws	12
13831641148	Solon	Athenian tyrant who outlawed debt slavery	13
13831641149	Philip II	leader of Macedon who conquered Greeks after Pelopponesian Wars and brought back Monarchy	14
13831641150	Alexander the Great	Macedonian general who conquered Persia and spread Hellenistic Culture	15
13831641151	Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aeschylsus	Greek playwrights	16
13831641152	Thucydides and Herodotus	Greek historians	17
13831641153	Socrates	Greek philosopher who questioned citizens	18
13831641154	Plato	Greek philospoher who wrote The Republic	19
13831641155	Aristotle	Greek philosopher who set up a school in Athens	20
13831641156	Homer	blind poet wrote Iliad and Odyssey	21
13831641157	Phidias	Greek sculptor	22
13831641158	Euclid	Greek mathematician father of geometry	23
13831641159	Pythagoras	Greek mathematician with triangle theorem	24
13831641160	Hippocrates	Greek father of Medicine	25
13831641161	Archimedes	Greek scientist who invented lever pulley and water screw	26
13831641162	Zeus/Jupiter	god of the skies	27
13831641163	Hera/Juno	goddess of marriage and wife to Zeus	28
13831641164	Athena/Minerva	goddess of wisdom	29
13831641165	Artemis/Diana	goddess of the moon and the hunt	30
13831641166	Apollo	god of the sun	31
13831641167	Aphrodite/Venus	goddess of love and beauty	32
13831641168	Hannibal	Carthaginian General	33
13831641169	Plebeians	Roman poor class	34
13831641170	Patricians	Roman wealthy class	35
13831641171	Julius Caesar	Roman general who was assassinated for gaining too much power (his death started Civil Wars)	36
13831641172	Augustus Caesar	fought Marc Antony to become Rome's first emperor and leader of the Pax Romana	37
13831641173	Marc Antony	lost Civil Wars after Julius Caesar's death	38
13831641174	Virgil	Roman poet wrote the Aeneid	39
13831641175	Ptolemy	Roman scientist who believed in geocentric theory	40
13831641176	Constantine	Roman emperor who moved capital to Constantinople and legalized Christianity	41
13831641177	Jesus	founder of Christianity believed by Christians to be the son of God	42
13831641178	Paul	an Apostle and missionary who spread Christianity	43
13831641179	Justinian	Byzantine emperor famous for law code and building Hagia Sophia	44
13831641180	Caliph	Islamic Rulers	45
13831641181	Caliph Ali	Islamic Ruler whose leadership sparked a division in Islam	46
13831641182	Sunni	followers of Islam who wanted election of caliph	47
13831641183	Shia	followers of Islam who wanted descendant of Muhammad as Caliph	48
13831641184	Muhammad	founder of Islam	49
13831641185	Saladin	Muslim leader during the Crusades	50
13831641186	Pope Urban II	leader who encouraged Christians to take back the holy land	51
13831641187	Ferdinand and Isabella	Spanish rulers who unified country and removed Muslims and Jews from Spain	52
13831641188	Ivan III	Czar who kicked out Mongols from Russia	53
13831641189	William of Normandy	conquered England and became king after battle of hastings	54
13831641190	Charlemagne	crowned Holy Roman Emperor brought order to Western Europe after the fall of Rome	55
13831641191	Charles V	Spanish king who expanded empire into the Western Hemisphere (the Americas)	56
13831641192	Henry II	English king who is credited with Common Law and Juries	57
13831641193	King John	English king who signed Magna Carta	58
13831641194	Hugh Capet	first French King; moved capital to Paris	59
13831641195	Joan of Arc	French war hero of the 100 Years War	60
13831641196	Michelangelo	Renaissance painter famous for Sistine Chapel and statue of David	61
13831641197	Leonardo Da Vinci	Renaissance painter famous for Mona Lisa and the Last Supper	62
13831641198	Petrarch	Renaissance humanist who wrote love poetry (sonnets)	63
13831641199	Gutenberg	invented printing press to spread books and ideas more quickly	64
13831641200	Thomas More	Northern humanist famous for writing Utopia	65
13831641201	Erasmus	Northern humanist famous for writing Praise of Folly	66
13831641202	Machiavelli	Italian political thinker who believed the end justifies the means and wrote about this in his book The Prince	67
13831641203	Patriarch	leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church	68
13831641204	Pope	leader of the Roman Catholic Church	69