A review of People for World History 1500AD to the Present
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| Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs | show 🗑
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| Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas | show 🗑
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| show | Ferdinand & Isabella
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| Patron of exploration; from Portugal | show 🗑
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| Portuguese explorer; first to find a water route to India | show 🗑
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| His crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe | show 🗑
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| French explorer who claimed much of modern eastern Canada | show 🗑
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| show | Francis Drake
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| Tried to find a westward route to Asia; instead he discovered the New World | show 🗑
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| Leader of the Aztecs | show 🗑
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| Patron family of the renaissance | show 🗑
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| Writer of Praise of Folly; humanist | show 🗑
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| Writer of Don Quixotre | show 🗑
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| show | Shakespeare
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| developed the printing press | show 🗑
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| show | Michelangelo
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| painted the Last Supper and Mona Lisa; ideal Renaissance man | show 🗑
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| show | Eugene Delacroix
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| show | John Calvin
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| First protestant reformer; 95 theses | show 🗑
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| show | Henry VIII
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| Catholic group who tried to convert people to Catholicism | show 🗑
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| show | Abraham
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| he led the Jews out of Egypt; 10 Commandments | show 🗑
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| show | Siddhartha Gautama
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| show | Muhammad
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| founder of Christianity; he is called the Messiah | show 🗑
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| show | Elizabeth I
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| head of the Catholic Church | show 🗑
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| came to power during the Glorious Revolution; had to accept Parliament's Bill of Rights which limited the power of the monarch(s) and increased the power of Parliament | show 🗑
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| show | Charles II
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| killed during the English Civil War | show 🗑
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| show | James II
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| show | Cardinal Richelieu
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| show | Robespierre
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| show | Louis XVI
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| absolute monarch of Prussia; militarism | show 🗑
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| absolute monarch of Russia; westernization | show 🗑
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| Absolute monarch of France; "I am the state"; Palace of Versailles | show 🗑
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| show | Prince Klemens von Metternich
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| show | Napoleon
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| show | Guiseppe Garibaldi
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| show | Camillo Cavour
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| show | Otto von Bismarck
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| Led a slave revolt in Haiti | show 🗑
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| Led independence movement in much of South America | show 🗑
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| show | Copernicus
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| show | Francis Bacon
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| Discovered the laws of planetary motion; said the planets revolved around the sun in ellipses not perfect circles; the closer the planet got to the sun the faster it orbited around | show 🗑
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| He supported the heliocentric theory; used the telescope to discover Saturn's rings; and 4 of the moons around Jupiter; brought before the Inquisition for heresy | show 🗑
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| He discovered the laws of motion; gravity; developed calculus | show 🗑
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| show | William Harvey
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| show | Voltaire
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| show | John Locke
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| show | Montesquieu
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| Enlightenment philosopher who wrote Leviathan; said people were naturally selfish and brutal and needed an absolute monarch to govern | show 🗑
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| show | Rousseau
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| leader of the Roundheads during the English Civil War | show 🗑
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| show | Hapsburg
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| show | Henry Bessemer
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| show | Eli Whitney
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| developed the first steam engine | show 🗑
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| discovered germs; bacteria | show 🗑
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| discovered vaccination for small pox | show 🗑
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| show | Adam Smith
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| show | Karl Marx
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| show | Commodore Matthew Perry
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| He gained India's independence with passive resistance | show 🗑
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| show | Nelson Mandela
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| leader of Kenya in Africa | show 🗑
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| his death started World War I; leader of Austria-Hungary | show 🗑
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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| show | Nicholas II
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| leader of the Bolsheviks; created the first communist state | show 🗑
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| fascist dictator of Germany; leader of the Nazi Party; wrote "Mein Kampf". He was able to come to power because of the Great Depression and the failure of the Treaty of Versailles | show 🗑
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| show | Benito Mussolini
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| show | Hirihito
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| show | Tojo
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| show | Joseph Stalin
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| show | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| show | Douglas MacArthur
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| His plan gave billions to rebuild Western Europe after World War II | show 🗑
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| US President at the end of WWII; he decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan; his doctrine said the US would stop the spread of communism | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| Prime minister of Great Britain/England during World War II; "iron curtain" speech during the Cold War | show 🗑
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| show | Kaiser Wilheim
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| show | Fidel Castro
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| show | Mikhail Gorbachev
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| US President contributed with ending the Cold War; built up the US military | show 🗑
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| show | Mao Zedong or Tse-tung
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| show | Chinag Kai Shek
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| show | Ho Chi Minh
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| show | Pol Pot
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