Must Know People

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Christopher Columbus

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Completed 4 voyages across Atlantic Ocean, opened up America to European exploration

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Martin Luther

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Wrote the 95 theses

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Hernan Cortes

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Led an expedition to into Aztec empire & caused fall of empire

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Francisco Pizarro

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Conquered the Incan empire

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Vasco de gama

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Commanded first ships to sail directly from Europe to India

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Akbar

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Ruler of Mughals

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Atahualpa

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Last inca emperor

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Montezuma II

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Aztec ruler during Spanish conquest of modern day Mexico

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Elizabeth I

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Last monarch of Tudor dynasty

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Louis XIV

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Absolute monarch in France

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Ivan IV

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Grand price of Moscow-first Russian emperor

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Peter the great

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Russian tsar who presided over the westernization of the empire, moved capital

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King nzinga

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Ruler of the kingdom of the Kongo during the height

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Tokugawa leyasu

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Last of the 3 great unifiers of Japan.

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Aurangzeb

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Mughal emperor

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Suleyman the magnificent

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Ottoman ruler

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John Calvin

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Pastor during Protestant reformation

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Bartolomeu Dias

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Discovered cape of good hope, Portuguese

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Galileo galilei

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Italian physicist

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Thomas Hobbes

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English philosopher, champion of absolutism

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Nicklaus Copernicus

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Renaissance mathematician and astro