Famous Faces

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Alexander the Great

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Conquered most of the ancient world from Asia and India to Northern Africa - began the Hellenistic culture

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Asoka

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King of the Maurya Dynasty (India). Instrumental in the spread of Buddhism

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Kemal Ataturk

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National leader in Turkey who is responsible for modernizing and westernizing it after WWI

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Baron de Montesquieu

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Enlightenment philosopher - government should be divided. Separation of powers and Checks and Balances

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Simon Bolivar

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Latin American revolutionary responsible for removing Spain from much of South America

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Emperor of France - created the Napoleonic Code in France; brought stability back to France after the Revolution - attempted to take over Europe

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Buddha

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Siddhartha Gautama - Buddha - creator of the Buddhist belief system

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John Calvin

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Church reformer who developed a form of Protestantism during the Reformation - PREDESTINATION

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Catherine the Great

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Russian ruler who reformed Russia using many Enlightenment ideas - “enlightened despot”

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Confucius

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Chinese philosopher - Five Relationships, Filial Piety, and Civil Service System

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Constantine

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Roman Emperor - founded the city of Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Astronomer - Heliocentric (earth orbits the sun) theory

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Hernan Cortez

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Spanish conquistador responsible for conquering the Aztec Empire and claiming most of Central America for Spain

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Czar Nicholas II

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Leader of Russia - overthrown and killed during the Russian Revolution (1917)

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, and inventor during the Renaissance

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Galileo Galilei

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Astronomer during the Scientific Revolution - proved Copernicus’s heliocentric theory. Punished by the Church for his beliefs

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Johannes Gutenberg

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German printer, invented the printing press in Europe

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Adolf Hitler

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German leader under the Nazi Party - started WWII, responsible for the Holocaust

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Thomas Hobbes

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Enlightenment philosopher - favored absolute government

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John Locke

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Enlightenment philosopher - believed all people had natural rights

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Martin Luther

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religious reformer during the Reformation - 95 Theses

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Wrote The Prince - advice to rulers - “it is better to be feared then loved.”, “the ends justify the means”

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Nelson Mandela

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South African leader who protested the policy of Apartheid

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Mao Zedong

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Communist Party leader overthrew the Nationalists - established People’s Republic of China

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Karl Marx

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The Communist Manifesto - describes the idea of socialism and predicted a revolution of the worker

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Meiji

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Japanese Emperor responsible for ending feudalism and modernizing and westernizing Japan

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Mohammed

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Prophet of Allah, founder of Islam

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Enlightenment philosopher - government should be run according to the will of the people (general will)

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Voltaire

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Enlightenment Philosopher - believed in the Freedom of speech and religion - best weapon against bad government and corrupt church

Question 30

Mansa Musa

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Emperor of Mali who was a Muslim - went to Mecca and established trade routes (money) to the Middle East