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People Of Global 9 Flashcards

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Who is Constantine?

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  • Rome
  • moved capital from Rome to Byzantium
  • later renamed to Constantinople
  • ended persecution of Christians with edicts of Milan
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Who was Marcus Aurelius?

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  • his death started the decline of Rome

- his death caused end of Pax Romana

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Who were the gracchus brothers?

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  • Rome
  • Tiberius and Gaius
  • tried to reform and help rome’s poor
  • met violent deaths
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Who was Julius Caesar?

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  • Rome
  • consul
  • helped reform
  • stabbed and killed on March 15, 44 BC
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Who was Octavian/augustus?

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  • Rome
  • start of Roman Empire, end of republic
  • was a consul 13x
  • stable and powerful govt
  • liked by Romans
  • great military leader
  • PAX ROMANA
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Who was Hannibal?

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  • Carthage

- led Carthage in Punic wars

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Who was queen Hatshepsut?

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-Egypt

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Who was Thutmose III?

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-Egypt

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Who was Ramses II?

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-Egypt

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Who was Abraham?

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-founder of Judaism

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Who was chandragupta maurya?

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  • Mauryan empire
  • strict and harsh
  • vast army
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Who was Asoka?

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  • Mauryan empire
  • ruled by Buddhism
  • the rockedicts
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Who was siddharta gautama?

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  • founder of Buddhism
  • made four noble truths
  • followed eightfold path
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Who was Liu bang?

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  • Han dynasty

- rose from peasant background to overthrow qin

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Who was wudi?

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  • Han dynasty

- led Han dynasty through golden age

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Who was Confucius?

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-founder of Confucianism

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Who was laozi?

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-founder of daoism

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Who was Han fei tzu?

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-founder of legalism

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Who was Pericles?

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  • Greece
  • led Athens through golden age
  • good politician
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Who was Socrates?

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  • Greece

- philosopher

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Who was Plato?

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  • Greece

- philosopher

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Who was Aristotle?

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  • Greece

- philosopher

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Who was Pythagoras?

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  • Greece
  • made Pythagorean theorem
  • great mathematician
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Who was Herodotus?

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  • Greece
  • father of history
  • separated fact from fiction
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Who was Hippocrates?

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  • Greece
  • father of medicine
  • Hippocrates oath
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Who was Alexander the Great?

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  • Macedonia
  • took over Greece
  • spread Hellenistic culture
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Who was Justinian?

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  • Byzantine empire
  • emperor
  • Justinian code
  • built Hagia Sophia (“holy wisdom”)
  • beat Nika rebellion
  • plague named Justinian plague
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Who was Theodora?

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  • Byzantine empire
  • justinian’s wife
  • helped Justinian
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Who was Ivan III?

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  • Russia
  • refused to pay mongol’s tribute
  • bloodless standoff = liberation
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Who was Diocletian?

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  • Rome
  • divided empire into east and west
  • doubled size of roman army
31
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Who was Muhammad?

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  • founder of Islam
  • “prophet of Islam”
  • messenger of Allah
32
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Who was empress wu?

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  • tang dynasty

- first woman to assume title of empress for herself

33
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Who was Clovis?

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  • Frankish kingdoms

- accepted Christianity

34
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Who was Charles Martel?

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  • Frankish kingdoms
  • “Charles the hammer”
  • protected Christianity
35
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Who was pepin the short?

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  • Frankish kingdoms

- started process of helping the pope

36
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Who was Charlemagne?

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  • Frankish kingdoms
  • nearly doubled borders
  • revived learning
  • holy roman emperor
37
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Who was Louis he pious?

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  • Frankish kingdoms
  • charlemagnes son
  • could not fulfill father’so responsibilities
  • passed rule to 3 sons with treaty of verdun
38
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Who were Charles the bald, lothair, and Louis Louis the German?

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  • Frankish kingdom
  • sons of Louis the pious
  • central authority broke down
  • lack of strong rulers led to feudalism
39
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Who was Marco Polo?

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  • traveled in 1200s
  • traveled many years in China
  • met kublai khan
40
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Who was Ibn battuta?

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  • traveled in 1300s
  • traveler and writer
  • devout Muslim
  • visited places in Islamic empire
41
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Who was ieyasu?

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  • japan

- founded Tokugawa shogunate

42
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Who was sundiata Kiera?

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  • Mali
  • restored gold salt trade
  • agriculture flourished
  • gained territory
43
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Who was mansa musa?

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  • Mali
  • opened trade routes and protected trade caravans
  • Timbuktu becomes a learning center
44
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Who was Askia Muhammad?

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  • Songhai
  • divided empire into 5 provinces
  • maintained peace and security with cavalry and navy
45
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Who was William the conqueror?

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  • European monarchies
  • invaded England
  • first census since roman times
46
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Who was Henry I?

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  • European monarchies

- gave royal courts more authority

47
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Who was Henry II?

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  • European monarchies

- set up system of common law

48
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Who was king John?

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  • European monarchies

- forced to sign Magna Carta

49
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Who was Phillip Augustus II?

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  • France
  • doubled area of domain
  • formed semipermanent army
50
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Who were Louis VII of France and Holy roman emperor Conrad III?

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  • led second crusade
  • constantly quarreled
  • easily defeated by Turks
51
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Who was Saladin?

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  • Muslim
  • captured Jerusalem
  • was nice to other religions
52
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Who was Frederick Barbarossa, king Phillip Augustus, and king Richard?

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  • led 3rd crusade
  • Barbarossa died
  • Phillip Augustus went home
  • Richard kept fighting
  • couldn’t compete with loyal and well trained Muslim forces
53
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Who was Filipino Brunelleschi?

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  • Renaissance

- built some for the cathedral of Florence

54
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Who was Donatello?

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  • Renaissance

- first sculptor to cast large, freestanding nude statue

55
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Who was Michelangelo?

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  • Renaissance

- sculpted works for pope

56
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Who was William Shakespeare?

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  • Renaissance

- playwright

57
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Who was Johannes Gutenberg?

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  • invented moveable metal type

- made publishing books cheaper and faster

58
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Who was Martin Luther?

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  • Protestant reformation
  • justification by faith
  • wrote 95 theses
  • Lutheranism
59
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Who was John Calvin?

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  • Protestant reformation
  • predestination
  • Calvinism
60
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Who was Ignatius of Loyola?

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  • counter reformation
  • Spanish noble
  • founded Jesuits
61
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Who was Teresa of Avila?

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  • Spanish nun
  • known for spiritual writings
  • made sure people were following rules
  • made a nun after her death
62
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Who was prince Henry the navigator?

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  • Portugal
  • studied navigation
  • sponsored many exploratory voyages
  • discovery of Azores, the Madeira islands, and the Cape Verde islands
63
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Who was bartholomeau Dias?

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  • Portugal
  • discovered cape of good hope
  • proved ships could reach easy Asia by traveling around Africa
64
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Who was Vasco de gama?

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  • Portugal
  • sailed from Portugal o India
  • trading, glimpse of riches that could come from direct trade
65
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Who was Christopher Columbus?

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  • Spain

- first Europeans to reach Bahamas

66
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Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

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  • Spain
  • “soldier of fortune”
  • reached strait, named Strait of Magellan
  • renamed Pacific Ocean
67
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Who was hernan Cortes?

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  • Spanish conqueror

- killed thousands of Aztecs

68
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Who was Francisco Pizarro?

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  • Spanish conqueror
  • invaded inca empire
  • killed thousands of incas
69
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Who was Henry Hudson?

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  • Netherlands

- claimed land for the Dutch

70
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Who was Jacques Cartier?

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  • French

- sailed up modern day st. Lawrence river and present say Montreal

71
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Who was Samuel de Champlain?

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  • France
  • French mapmaker
  • founded Quebec
72
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Who was genghis khan?

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  • Mongol
  • organized disciplined armies
  • skilled horsemen and bowmen
73
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who was kublai khan?

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  • Mongol
  • conquered rest of china (south)
  • created yuan dynasty

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