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89 Cards in this Set
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Laissez Faire...hands off...free market...capitalism...wealth of nations |
Adam Smith |
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Totalitarianism, Nazi, Dictator, Holocaust, Appeasement, Mein Kampf, Nationalism |
Adolf Hitler |
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Absolute Ruler, Middle East |
Akbar the Great |
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Iranian Ruler, Overthrows Shah, creates Islamic Republic |
Allatollah Khomeini |
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Explorer, Portuguese, sailed around southern tip of Africa |
Bartholemeu Dias |
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Dictator of Italy, Fascism |
Benito Mussolini |
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Italian Unification Leader (Brain) |
Camillo di Cavour |
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Czar of Russia, Westernize and Modernize, Abosulte leader |
Catherine the Great |
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Holy Roman Emperor |
Charlemagne |
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"Survival of the Fittest" |
Charles Darwin |
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New World, "The Encounter", Columbian Exchange |
Christopher Columbus |
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Filial Piety, Respect for Elders, Civil Service Exams |
Confucius |
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King of Russia before communism, last Czar |
Czar Nicholas II |
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Modernized China; after Mao |
Deng Xiaoping |
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Bishop of South Africa, worked with Nelson Mandela to fight apartied |
Desmond Tutu |
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Queen of England, defeated Spanish Armada |
Elizabeth I |
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Modernized and Westernized Japan |
Emperor Meiji |
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President of South Africa who ended Apartheid |
F W de Klerk |
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Circumnavigated the Earth |
Ferdinand Magellan |
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Communist Leader of Cuba |
Fidel Castro |
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Assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, immediate cause of WW1 |
Franz Ferdinand |
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Wrote Communist Manifesto w/ Karl Marx |
Frederich Engels |
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Heliocentric Theory, Telescope |
Galileo Galilei |
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Leader of Mongolia, created Empire |
Ghengis Khan |
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First written code of law |
Hammurabi |
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King of England who broke away from Catholic Church |
Henry VIII |
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Emperor of Japan, WW2 |
Hirohito |
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Leader of Communist Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh |
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Explorer of North Africa/ Middle East |
Ibn Battuta |
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Scientist; Gravity |
Isaac Newton |
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Czar of Russia; went crazy |
Ivan the Terrible |
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King of England after Queen Elizabeth |
James I |
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Writer during Enlightenment, Freedom of Religion and Speech |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Leader of Taiwan after fleeing communist China |
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-Shek) |
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Invented the Printing Press, Education/ Bibles Spread |
Johannes Guttenberg |
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Broke away from Catholic Church |
John Calvin |
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King who signed Magna Carta, limited his own power |
John I of England |
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Natural Rights, Two Treaties of Gov't, Supports Democracy |
John Locke |
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Independence leader of Kenya |
Jomo Kenyatta |
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Independence leader of Argentina |
Jose de San Martin |
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Dictator of the USSR |
Joseph Stalin |
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Leader of Byzantine Empire, created law code |
Justinian |
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Last King of Germany, during WW1, flees Germany after the War |
Kaiser Wilhelm II |
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Creates Communism, believes in classless society, revolution against the rich |
Karl Marx |
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Leader of Mongolian Empire, expands to China, Pax Mongolia |
Kublai Khan |
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Renaissance Man, Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Inventor |
Leonardo da Vinci |
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Sun King, created Versailles Palace, Absolute Monarch |
Louis XIV |
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King during French Revolution, calls Estates General, fails, gets executed |
Louis XVI |
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Leader of Mali in West Africa, becomes Muslim, Gold/Salt Trade, Timbucktu |
Mansa Musa |
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Leader of Communist China, has peasant support |
Mao Zedong |
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Explorer who sailed to China |
Marco Polo |
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95 thesis, protested indulgences, broke away from catholic church |
Martin Luther |
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Sailed to Japan, forced Japan to trade |
Matthew Perry |
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Leader of French Revolution, Jacobin, Reign of Terror |
Maximillian Robespierre |
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Leader of USSR, detente, perestroika/Glasnost, eased up on Communism |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
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Civil Disobedience, Indian Independence, protests caste system |
Mohandus Ghandi |
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Separtion of Powers/ Checks and balances |
Montesqueiu |
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Nationalist leader of Turkey, secular, modernized Turkey |
Mustafa Jemal Ataturk |
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Emperor of France, civil code, invades Russia and fails |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Civil disobedience, protests apartheid in South Africa, becomes 1st Black President of S. Africa |
Nelson Mandela |
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Prime Minister of England, Appeases Adilf Hitler |
Neville Chamberlain |
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Wrote "The Prince", believes in total power |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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Heliocentric Theory |
Nicholas Copernicus |
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Leader of USSR, Cuban Missile Crisis |
Nikita Khruschev |
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Chancellor of Germany, unification, Blood and Iron |
Otto von Bismarck |
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Governor of Athens, direct democracy |
Pericles |
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Czar of Russia, Absolute Monarchy, Warm water port |
Peter the Great |
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Absolute Monarch of Spain |
Philip II |
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Dictator of Cambodia, killing fields, genocide, communist |
Pol Pot |
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Starts the Crusades |
Pope Urban II |
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Explorer of England |
Prince Henry the Navigator |
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Greek Writer/ Astrologist |
Ptolemy |
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Modern Leader of Russia, took over Crimea |
Vladimir Putin |
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Pawned idea of "White Man's Burden" |
Rudyard Kipling |
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Dictator of Iraq, WMD's, invaded by America |
Sadaam Hussein |
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Muslim leader of Crusades |
Saladin |
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Dictator of Iran, secular, loses to Allatollah Khomeini |
Shah Reza Pahlavi |
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Leader of Zulu nation |
Shaka Zulu |
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Chinese Emperor, Legalism/ Great Wall, Qin Dynasty |
Shi Huangdi |
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Gran Colombia, Unified much of Latin America |
Simon Bolivar |
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Leader of Ottoman Empire |
Suleiman the Magnificent |
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Leader of China before it turns Communist |
Sun Yixian |
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Opposed John Locke, writes "The Leviathan" |
Thomas Hobbes |
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Explorer, goes around Africa to reach India for Portugal |
Vasco da Gama |
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Leads Russian Revolution and creates Communist Russia (USSR) |
Vladimir Lenin |
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Enlightenment writer, freedom of speech |
Voltaire |
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Famous English writer |
William Shakespeare |
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Prime Minister of England, fights Hitler and Iron Curtain |
Winston Churchill |
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Explorer for China, goes to Africa, leads to isolation |
Zheng He |