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Stack #132395
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Napoleon | 1769-1821. French Emperor responsible for French Revolution reforms and conquering most of Europe. |
| Buddha | Hindu for "enlightened one." |
| Ceasar | 100-44BC Roman general and statesman. responsible for imperial system in Rome which place relative, Augustus on throne |
| Catherine the Great | An enlightened despot who ruled Russia, Responsible for positive changes in Russia. Secured the country a warm water port. |
| Calvin | 1508-1564 theologian & church reformer; developed form of Proestantism during Reformation. Church believed in predestination. |
| Cortez | 1485-1547 spanish conquistaor who was responsible for the conquest of Aztec empire and claiming much of Central America for Spanish. |
| Chamberlin | 1869-1940 Prime Minister of Great Britain form 1937-40. Responsible for the policy of appeasement with Hitler's Nazi Germany |
| Jesus | 8-4BC-29CE founder of Christianity. son of God and Messiah. Central figure in Christian religion |
| Columbus | 1451-1506 Italian explore who worked for Spain. Crossed ocean to discover Americas in 1492 |
| Winston Churchill | 1874-1965 british politician and Prime Minister of Great Britain form 1940-45, and 1951-55. regarded as finest British leader of 20th century and instrumental in leading Britain to victory during WWII |
| Fidel Castro | 1926-? leader of Cuban Revolution & made Cuba a socialist country. bay of Pigs invasion and cuban missile Crisis |
| Brezhnev | 1906-1982 Leader of soviet Union form 1964-82. During his control of the ssoviet Union, relations with the West, as well as the soviet economy, experienced a long period of stagnation. |
| Cavour | 1810-61. Prime Minister of Sardinia, a large Italian state. He formed alliances with other foreign powers to help end austria's and Spain's control. Instrumental in the unification of Italy. |
| Da Gama | 1469?-1524. Portuguese explore who, in 1498, established an all water route to India. |
| Confucius | 551-479 BCE? Chinese philosopher and writer of The Analects, a collection of moral and social teachings, including the concept of the five Relationships. Also know as Kong Fu Zi |
| Constantine | 274-337CE. Roman emperor between 306 & 337 CE. Issued the Edict of Milan which outlawed the persecution of Christians. founded the city of Constantinople, future capital of Byzantine Empire. |
| Czar Nicholas II | 1868-1918. Czar of Russia (1894-1917). Overthrown during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Later, he and his family were killed by the revolution's leadership |
| Cervantes | 1547-1616. Spanish renaissance writer. His greatest work is the comedic tale Don Quixote. Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer who measured the circumference of the Earth(measurement only off by 15%. |
| Euclid | cira 300BCE. Greek mathematician. considered the father of modern geometry. |
| Frederick II | 1712-1786. King of Prussia from 1740-1786. Enlightened despot who enlarged Prussia by gaining land from Austria when Maria Theresa became Empress. |
| Galileo | (1564-1642. Itallian astronomer. One of the founders of Europe's scientific revolution, one of his contributions is the application of the telescope to astronomy. Prover copernicus' heliocentric model correct. |
| Hirohito | 1901-1989. emperor of Japan from 1926-1989. Last Japanes emperor to be considered divine. Led Japan through WWII. |
| Siddhartha Gautama | 563-483BCE. Indian philosopher and founder of Buddhism. born into the Brahmin caste, and led a luxurious lifestyle. He was troubled by the human misery that he saw around him Upon reflection, he deduced that desire was the root of all suffering. Buddha |
| Genghis Khan | 1167-1227. One of the mongol's greatest leaders and founder of Mongol Empire. |
| Gorbachev | 1931-. soviet Union leader from 1985-91. Policies of Perestroika and Glasnost aimed at revitalizing the Soviet Union contributed to the downfall of communism |
| Herzl | 1860-1904. Leader of Zionist movemetn to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. |
| Gandhi, Mohandas | 1869-1948. Nationalist leader in India, who called for non violent revolution to gain his country's freedom from the British Empire. |
| Gutenberg | 1400-1468. german printer and european pioneer in the use of movable type. |
| Garibaldi | 1807-1882. Military leader whose Red Shirt army liberated most of southern Italy, before conquering the northern section. Instrumental in unification of Italy. |
| Hippocrates | 460-377 BCE. greek physician, considered to be the father of medicine and the ethical standard of treating all patients known as the Hippocratic Oath. |
| Hitler | 1889-1945. German leader.Co- founded the Nazi party in Germany, became Chancellor in 1993. Started WWII with the invasion of Poland. Responsible for the Holocaust. |
| Hobbes | 1588-1679. English philosopher and political theorist. wrote Leviathan, where he favored and absolute government as the only means of balancing human interests and desires with their rights of life and property. |
| Ho Chi Minh | 1890-1969. vietnames leader who is resposible for ousting the Frenchm then the US from his country. Supported by communist China and Soviet Union, he guided vietnam through decades long warfare to eerge as a communist nation. |
| Henry VIII | 1491-1547. King of England who transformed his country into a Protestant nation during the Reformation |
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