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A review of People for World History 1500AD to the Present

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Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs   Hernando Cortes  
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Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas   Francisco Pizarro  
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Spanish king and queen who finanaced Columbus' voyage   Ferdinand & Isabella  
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Patron of exploration; from Portugal   Prince Henry the Navigator  
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Portuguese explorer; first to find a water route to India   Vasco da Gama  
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His crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe   Ferdinand Magellan  
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French explorer who claimed much of modern eastern Canada   Jacques Cartier  
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English explorer; ship was the Golden Hind; second to circumnavigate the globe   Francis Drake  
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Tried to find a westward route to Asia; instead he discovered the New World   Christopher Columbus  
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Leader of the Aztecs   Montezuma  
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Patron family of the renaissance   Medici  
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Writer of Praise of Folly; humanist   Erasmus  
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Writer of Don Quixotre   Miquel de Cervantes  
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Renaissance English playwriter   Shakespeare  
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developed the printing press   Gutenberg  
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painter of the Sistine Chapel; sculpted David and the Pieta   Michelangelo  
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painted the Last Supper and Mona Lisa; ideal Renaissance man   Leonardo da Vinci  
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Romantic painter; used landscapes; painted Liberty Leading the People   Eugene Delacroix  
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Protestant reformer; believed in predestination   John Calvin  
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First protestant reformer; 95 theses   Martin Luther  
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Protestant reformer; became leader of Anglican Church of England with the Act of Supremacy; split with the Catholic Church because he was refused a divorce   Henry VIII  
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Catholic group who tried to convert people to Catholicism   Jesuits  
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founder of Judaism   Abraham  
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he led the Jews out of Egypt; 10 Commandments   Moses  
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founder of Buddhism   Siddhartha Gautama  
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founder of Islam   Muhammad  
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founder of Christianity; he is called the Messiah   Jesus  
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Queen who continued strengthening the Anglican Church; daughter of Henry VIII   Elizabeth I  
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head of the Catholic Church   Pope  
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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   William and Mary  
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English king during the Restoration period   Charles II  
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killed during the English Civil War   Charles I  
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fled during the Glorious Revolution   James II  
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changed the 30 years war from a religious to a political one   Cardinal Richelieu  
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leader of the Reign of Terror   Robespierre  
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French king who was guillotined along with his wife Marie Antoinette   Louis XVI  
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absolute monarch of Prussia; militarism   Frederick the Great  
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absolute monarch of Russia; westernization   Peter the Great  
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Absolute monarch of France; "I am the state"; Palace of Versailles   Louis XIV  
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Leader of the Congress of Vienna; conservative   Prince Klemens von Metternich  
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He ended the French Revolution with his coup de etat; wanted to conquer all of Europe; defeated at Waterloo   Napoleon  
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He united southern Italy; leader of the Red Shirts   Guiseppe Garibaldi  
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He united northern Italy; great politican   Camillo Cavour  
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He is responsible for uniting Prussia to become Germany; believed in realpolitik   Otto von Bismarck  
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Led a slave revolt in Haiti   Toussaint L'Ouverture  
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Led independence movement in much of South America   Simon Bolivar  
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Developed the heliocentric theory   Copernicus  
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Founded the scientific method   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   Johannes Kepler  
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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   Galileo  
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He discovered the laws of motion; gravity; developed calculus   Isaac Newton  
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He is responsible for discovering the circulation of the blood in the human body   William Harvey  
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Enlightenment philosopher who believed in separation of church and state; wrote Candide   Voltaire  
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Enlightenment philosopher; natural rights of life, liberty, and property which was later used by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence   John Locke  
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Enlightenment philosopher who wrote about three equal branches of government (judicial, legislative, and executive).   Montesquieu  
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Enlightenment philosopher who wrote Leviathan; said people were naturally selfish and brutal and needed an absolute monarch to govern   Thomas Hobbes  
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Enlightenment philosopher who wrote Social Contract; said people had the power to rule (popular sovereignty)   Rousseau  
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leader of the Roundheads during the English Civil War   Oliver Cromwell  
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ruling family of the southern part of the Holy Roman Empire; Catholic; involved in the Thirty Years War   Hapsburg  
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discovered a cheaper way for making steel   Henry Bessemer  
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inventor of the cotton gin   Eli Whitney  
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developed the first steam engine   James Watt  
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discovered germs; bacteria   Louis Pasteur  
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discovered vaccination for small pox   Edward Jenner  
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wrote "Wealth of Nations"; founder of capitalism   Adam Smith  
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wrote the "Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital"; founder of communism   Karl Marx  
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US Navy Admiral who forced Japan to open trade   Commodore Matthew Perry  
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He gained India's independence with passive resistance   Gandhi  
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leader of South Africa; help to end apartheid   Nelson Mandela  
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leader of Kenya in Africa   Jumo Kenyatta  
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his death started World War I; leader of Austria-Hungary   Archduke Franz Ferdinand  
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US President during WWI; his peace plan was the 14 points, which called for the League of Nations   Woodrow Wilson  
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Russian czar who was killed along with his family in the Russian Revolution of 1917   Nicholas II  
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leader of the Bolsheviks; created the first communist state   Vladimir Lenin  
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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   Adolf Hitler  
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fascist dictator of Italy during WWII   Benito Mussolini  
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Emperor of Japan during WWII   Hirihito  
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general of Japan during WWII; he had more power than the emperor   Tojo  
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totalitarian leader of Russia/Soviet Union during WWII; 5 Year Plan; collectivization; Great Purge   Joseph Stalin  
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US General of Europe during WWII; later becomes President   Dwight D. Eisenhower  
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US General of the Pacific during WWII; responsible for rebuilding Japan after WWII   Douglas MacArthur  
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His plan gave billions to rebuild Western Europe after World War II   George Marshall  
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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   Harry S. Truman  
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US President during the Great Depression and most of WWII   Franklin D. Roosevelt  
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Prime minister of Great Britain/England during World War II; "iron curtain" speech during the Cold War   Winston Churchill  
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Leader of Germany during World War I   Kaiser Wilheim  
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communist leader of Cuba; allowed Soviet Union to put nuclear weapons in Cuba   Fidel Castro  
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Soviet leader at the end of the Cold War   Mikhail Gorbachev  
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US President contributed with ending the Cold War; built up the US military   Ronald Reagan  
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leader of the Communists during the Chinese Revolution   Mao Zedong or Tse-tung  
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Leader of the Nationalists during the Chinese Revolution; went to Taiwan after he was defeated   Chinag Kai Shek  
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Communist leader of Vietnam   Ho Chi Minh  
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responsible for the genocide in Cambodia   Pol Pot  
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