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Greek philosopher, teacher of Alexander the Great

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Aristotle

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Son of God, mosiah, 2nd monotheistic religion

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Jesus Christ

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Napoleonic Code, failed empire in Europe

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Napoleon

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Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Long March, support of peasants

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Mao Zedong

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theory of evolution, survival of the fittest

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Charles Darwin

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Leader of Bolsheviks and Russian Revolution, communist Russia, NEP

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Vlad Lenin

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communist leader in North Vietnam, nationalist, communist

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Ho Chi Minh

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Jewish-German scientist, worked on atomic bomb

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Albert Einstein

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first united leader in China, legalism, Great Wall

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Shi Huang di

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controlled most of Holy Roman Empire,

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Charlemagne

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blood and iron, realpoltik, unified people of Germany

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Otto Von Bismarck

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philosopher, know role in society, 5 relationships

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Confucius

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Babylon, 1st written law codes, strict, eye for an eye

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Hammurabi

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Cuban revolutionary, Communist Cuban, Cuban Missile Crisis

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Fidel Castro

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Chinese nationalist, leader of Kuomintang dynasty, tries to set up democracy in China

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Sun Yixian

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leader the followed Kruschev, in charge when Czechoslovakia broke away, détente

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Leonid Brezhnev

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leader in Kenya, first president of unified Kenya

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Jomo Kenyetta

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Argentinian independence ruler, gives his army to Bolivar

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José De San Martin

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Catholic nun, won Nobel Peace Prize for work in India

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Mother Theresa

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Absolute Monarch in Spain, Catholicism, tried to increase his power

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Philip II

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mystical holy man, advisor of Romanovs

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Rasputin

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Caudillo in Mexico, slogan was order and progress

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Porfirio Diaz

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female leader in Pakistan, assassinated by terrorists

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Benazir Bhutto

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Egyptian Pharaoh, longest running Egyptian ruler

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Hatshepsut

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general of Carthage, attacked Roman Empire, Punic Wars

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Hannibal

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First non-Chinese ruler of China, deals with Marco Polo

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Kublai Khan

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Ideas of predestination, Calvinism

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John Calvin

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28
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Wife of Louis XVI, executed

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Marie Antoinette

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Mexicain revolutionary leader that teamed with Pancho Villa , wanted Land and Liberty

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Emiliano Zapata

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last Queen of Hawaii, overthrown by American businesses

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Queen Liliukalani

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current leader of Russia

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Vladimir Putin

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32
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leader of Israelites out of Egypt, received the 10 commandments

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Moses

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leader of French army during the 100 years war, burned at the steak by British

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Joan of Arc

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astonomy, telescope, irregularities in heaven, conflicts with the Church

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Galileo

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Communist leader in Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, killing fields, wanted an agricultural society

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Pol Pot

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classical composer, child prodigy

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Mozart

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Increased the power of the Mauryan Empire, rock edicts

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Asoka

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Chinese explorer who explored South Asia, closed the borders because of him

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Zheng He

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Dictator of Roman Republic, refused to give up his power, made a number of reforms, assassinated by senators

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Julius Caesar

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separation of powers, checks and balances

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Baron de Montesquieu

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Protestant Reformation, 95 Theses, questioned the church

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Martin Luther

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Communist Manifesto, class struggle, started the ideas of Communism

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Karl Marx

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43
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Also called Emperor Meiji, responsible for westernizing and modernizing Japan

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Mutsuhito

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44
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Russian Czar, gained a warm water port, westernized

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Peter the Great

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45
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believed in natural rights, life, liberty, and property, helped inspire the American Revolution

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John Locke

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ideal Renaissance Man, Mona Lisa, scientist, dissected human body

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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law-giver, leader at the height of the Ottoman Empire

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Suleiman the Great

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natural laws of economics, economist, laissez-faire, capitalism

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Adam Smith

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49
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laws of gravity and motion

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Isaac Newton

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author, playwright for Britain

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William Shakespeare

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Prime Minister of Britain during WWII, created phrase “Iron Curtain”, famous speeches

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Winston Churchill

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Put Europe together after Napoleon, lead the Congress of Vienna

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Klemons Von Metternich

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53
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Invented the printing press

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Johannes Gutenberg

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Italian nationalist, leader of the Red Shirts, unified Southern Italy by force

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Guiseppe Garibaldi

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scientist, radioactivity, Nobel Peace Prize

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Marie Curie

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black bishop, called for economic sanctions on South Africa in hopes to end Apartheid

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Desmond Tutu

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57
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Started the heliocentric theory

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Copernicus

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nationalist leader in Indonesia, the countries first leader

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Sukarno

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first leader of independent Israel

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Ben Gurion

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one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, was in power during the life of Moses

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Ramses II

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Wrote the novel “The Prince”, believed that the end justifies the means

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Japanese officer that put together Pearl Harbor

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Admiral Yamamoto

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founder of Islam, said to follow the 5 pillars

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Mohammed

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rediscovered the Americas, sailed for Spain

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Christopher Columbus

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Absolute monarch in France, built Palace of Versailles, was titled the Sun King

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Louis XIV

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helped India gain independence, first leader of Pakistan

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Mohammed Ali Jinnah

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Freed by FW de Klerk, elected as president and ended Apartheid

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Nelson Mandela

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made reforms to save the Soviet Union, last leader, glasnost, Perestroika

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Totalitarian in Soviet Union, collectivization, 5 year plan, Great Purges

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Joseph Stalin

70
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Leader of England when they were a world power, defeated Spanish Armada

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Elizabeth I

71
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Native of Venezuela, South American revolutionary leader

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Simon Bolivar

72
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Israeli leader that signed the Camp David Accords

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Menachem Begin

73
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Italian artist, painter of the 16th chapel

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Michelangelo

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The greatest leader of the Mongols, gained territory that stretched from China to Russia, ruthless

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Genghis Khan

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Leader of Mali, made the journey to Mecca, spread Islam, extremely wealthy

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Mansa Musa

76
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civil disobedience in India, Salt March, hunger strikes

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Mohandas Gandhi

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formally known as Buddha, meditated for 49 days, believed in no wants or desires

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Siddhartha Gautama

78
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Macedonian, gained land that stretched from Greece to India, Hellenistic

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Alexander the Great

79
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Indian nationalist, first leader of independent India, nonalignment

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Jawaharlal Nehru

80
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Haitian leader that gained independence over the French

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Toussaint L’Overture

81
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Chinese leader, 4 modernizations, capitalist ideas

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Deng Xiaoping

82
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famous zionist

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Theordor Herzl

83
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leader of Ghana, civil disobedience, Pan-Aficanism

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Kwame Nkrumah

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Fascist, Nazi leader responsible for the Holocaust

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Adolf Hitler

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invented the steam engine

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James Watt

86
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an apostle that spread Christianity to non-Jews in Rome during Pax Romana

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Paul of Tarsus

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1st female prime minister in Britain, a conservative

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Margaret Thatcher

88
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Greek and invented Geometry

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Euclid

89
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English king that formed the Anglican Church during the Protestant Reformation

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Henry VIII

90
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up stander during the Holocaust who saved the lives of many Jews

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Oskar Schindler

91
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son of David, King of Israel, law-giver

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King Solomon

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teacher of Aristotle, wrote “Republic”

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Plato

93
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Overthrows Mongol rule in Russia

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Ivan III

94
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expands Russia but uses secret police force against boyars who opposed him

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Ivan the Terrible

95
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Queen of Austria, Hapsburg, fought Russia for territory

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Maria Theresa

96
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Queen of England for most of the 1800s, height of empire, Victorian Age

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Queen Victoria

97
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Prime Minister during Yom Kippur War

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Golda Meir

98
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Afrikaner who freed Mandela

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F.W de Klerk

99
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father of modern history, has records of ancient Greece

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Herodotus

100
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Conquistador, overthrows Aztecs

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Hernando Cortes

101
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Holocaust survivor, wrote the book “Night”

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Elie Wiesel

102
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member of the Black Hand who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and began WWI

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Gavrilo Princip

103
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the best of the enlightened despots, actually made reforms, Austrian

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Joseph II

104
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Mexican, liberal reformer, slogan was liberty, order, and progress

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Benito Juarez

105
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Began scramble for Africa, from Belgium, took control of the Congo

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King Leopold II

106
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King of Thailand, westernized

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King Mongkut

107
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author during the Middle Ages who wrote “The Canterbury Tales”

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Geoffrey Chauncer

108
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wrote an essay on population, the world needs war and disease as natural checks for rapidly increasing population

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Thomas Malthus

109
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ousted Ferdinand Marcos and was a Philippine President

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Corazon Aquino

110
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Puritan general during English Civil War, became dictator

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Oliver Cromwell

111
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artist during the Renaissance from the Netherlands

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Rebrandt van Rijn

112
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Prime Minister of Sardinia, cunning statesman, annexed Italy, the head

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Camillo di Cavour

113
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head of the Zulu tribe, fought against the English and Dutch

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Shaka Zulu

114
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Filipino nationalist, lost the fight to America and the U.S took control of the Philippines

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Emilio Aquinaldo

115
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Destalinization, Soviet leader during Cuban Missile Crisis

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Nikita Kruschev

116
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French radical, head of the Committee of Public Safety, reign of terror, guillotine

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Maximillian Robespierre

117
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Turkish warrior and Muslim leader during the Crusades

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Saladin

118
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last Czar of Russia, Bloody Sunday, whole family killed

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Czar Nicholas II

119
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leader of Al Qaeda, responsible for 9/11

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Osama bin Laden

120
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Serbian leader who is responsible form the genocide on Bosnia, ethnic cleansing, killed many Muslims

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Slobodan Milosevic

121
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Greek poet, wrote Iliad and Odyssey

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Homer

122
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Leader of French resistance in WWII

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Charles de Gaulle

123
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women’s rights activist, her daughter wrote “Frankenstein”, English

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Mary Wollstonecraft

124
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author from Spain who wrote “Donquixote”

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Miguel Cervantes

125
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leader of Germany during WWI, the Weimar Republic takes over after him

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

126
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Austrian psychologist, deals with unconscious mind

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Sigmund Freud

127
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African explorer of the Muslim world

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Ibn Battuta

128
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Roman emperor moves capital to Constantinople and makes Christianity the main religion of of the Roman Empire, Edict of Milan

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Constantine

129
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daughter of Nehru, assassinated by Sikh body guards, leader of India

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Indira Gandhi

130
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leader of Athens during Golden Age

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Pericles

131
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unites Northern India, began Mauryan Empire

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Chandragupta Maurya

132
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part of a wealthy family, a patron of the arts,

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Lorenzo de Medici

133
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conquistador that toppled Incan Empire

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Francisco Pizzaro

134
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King of France during French Revolution, indecisive

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Louis XVI

135
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American president, 14 Points, League of Nations

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Woodrow Wilson

136
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prodemocracy leader in Burma (Myanmar), under house arrest

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Aung San Suu Kyi

137
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archaeologist, uncovered Lucy

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Richard Leaky

138
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forced to sign Magna Carta, limited king’s power

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King John I

139
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English author, realist, “Great Expectations”, “A Christmas Carol”

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Charles Dickens

140
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defeated PRI party in Mexico

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Vincente Fox

141
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signed the Bill of Rights during the Glorious Revolution, overthrew James II

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William and Mary

142
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believed every person had evil inside of them, need an absolute monarch to keep order

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Thomas Hobbes

143
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invented wireless radio

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Guglielmo Marconi

144
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sent by Ottomans to Egypt, breaks away and modernizes Egypt

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Mohammed Ali

145
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dissident, dies a mysterious death in jail in South Africa

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Steven Biko

146
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Islamic fundamentalist, overthrows Shah in Iran, keeps American hostages

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Ayatollah Khomeini

147
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President of Egypt that signed Camp David Accords, land for peace

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Anwar Sadat

148
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Nicaraguan revolutionary, leader of the Sandinistas

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Daniel Ortega

149
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leader of suffragettes, force-fed in jail

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Emmeline Pankhurst

150
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leader of PLO, intifada, used terrorism to get Palestinian homeland

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Yasir Arafat

151
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Portuguese explorer that traveled to the tip of South Africa

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Bartholomeu Diaz

152
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created Daoism

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Laozi

153
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heating of liquids destroys bacteria

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Louis Pasteur

154
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also known as Octavian, first emperor of Roman Empire

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Augustas

155
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Mughal ruler, led during high point in India

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Akbar the Great

156
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leader in Iraq, chemical weapons against own people, Persian Gulf War

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Saddam Hussein

157
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famous Spanish artist, geometric design

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Pablo Picasso

158
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French author, wrote “Les Miserables”

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Victor Hugo

159
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Romantic composer, German, Ode to Joy

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Betthoven

160
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French philosopher, religious tolerance, freedom of speech

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Voltaire

161
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Italian explorer, used Silk Roads to China, wrote about his travels

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Marco Polo

162
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freely elected president in Czechoslovakia

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Vaclav Haval

163
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Suisse, radical, pushed for democracy, social contract

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

164
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Prussian leader who fought with Maria Theresa, first servant of the state, not exactly and Enlightened Despot

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Frederick the Great

165
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Portuguese prince, founded a school that taught about exploring

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Henry the Navigator

166
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Fascist leader in Italy, allied with Hitler in WWII

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Benito Mussolini

167
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Byzantine emperor, Justinian Code

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Justinian

168
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Mexican caudillo, lost Texas in Battle of Alamo, lost territory to America

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Santa Anna

169
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freely elected Russian president, failed shock therapy, failed capitalism

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Boris Yeltsin

170
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Married to Argentinian dictator, influential, nickname “Evita”,

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Eva Peron

171
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Polish solidarity leader, first elected president of Poland

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Lech Walesa

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Russian leader, Enlightened Despot, made no reforms

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Catherine the Great

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