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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

Totalitarianism, Nazi, Dictator, Holocaust, Appeasement, Mein Kampf, Nationalism

Adolf Hitler

Absolute Ruler, Middle East

Akbar the Great

Iranian Ruler, Overthrows Shah, creates Islamic Republic

Allatollah Khomeini

Explorer, Portuguese, sailed around southern tip of Africa

Bartholemeu Dias

Dictator of Italy, Fascism

Benito Mussolini

Italian Unification Leader (Brain)

Camillo di Cavour

Czar of Russia, Westernize and Modernize, Abosulte leader

Catherine the Great

Holy Roman Emperor

Charlemagne

"Survival of the Fittest"

Charles Darwin

New World, "The Encounter", Columbian Exchange

Christopher Columbus

Filial Piety, Respect for Elders, Civil Service Exams

Confucius

King of Russia before communism, last Czar

Czar Nicholas II

Modernized China; after Mao

Deng Xiaoping

Bishop of South Africa, worked with Nelson Mandela to fight apartied

Desmond Tutu

Queen of England, defeated Spanish Armada

Elizabeth I

Modernized and Westernized Japan

Emperor Meiji

President of South Africa who ended Apartheid

F W de Klerk

Circumnavigated the Earth

Ferdinand Magellan

Communist Leader of Cuba

Fidel Castro

Assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, immediate cause of WW1

Franz Ferdinand

Wrote Communist Manifesto w/ Karl Marx

Frederich Engels

Heliocentric Theory, Telescope

Galileo Galilei

Leader of Mongolia, created Empire

Ghengis Khan

First written code of law

Hammurabi

King of England who broke away from Catholic Church

Henry VIII

Emperor of Japan, WW2

Hirohito

Leader of Communist Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

Explorer of North Africa/ Middle East

Ibn Battuta

Scientist; Gravity

Isaac Newton

Czar of Russia; went crazy

Ivan the Terrible

King of England after Queen Elizabeth

James I

Writer during Enlightenment, Freedom of Religion and Speech

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Leader of Taiwan after fleeing communist China

Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-Shek)

Invented the Printing Press, Education/ Bibles Spread

Johannes Guttenberg

Broke away from Catholic Church

John Calvin

King who signed Magna Carta, limited his own power

John I of England

Natural Rights, Two Treaties of Gov't, Supports Democracy

John Locke

Independence leader of Kenya

Jomo Kenyatta

Independence leader of Argentina

Jose de San Martin

Dictator of the USSR

Joseph Stalin

Leader of Byzantine Empire, created law code

Justinian

Last King of Germany, during WW1, flees Germany after the War

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Creates Communism, believes in classless society, revolution against the rich

Karl Marx

Leader of Mongolian Empire, expands to China, Pax Mongolia

Kublai Khan

Renaissance Man, Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Inventor

Leonardo da Vinci

Sun King, created Versailles Palace, Absolute Monarch

Louis XIV

King during French Revolution, calls Estates General, fails, gets executed

Louis XVI

Leader of Mali in West Africa, becomes Muslim, Gold/Salt Trade, Timbucktu

Mansa Musa

Leader of Communist China, has peasant support

Mao Zedong

Explorer who sailed to China

Marco Polo

95 thesis, protested indulgences, broke away from catholic church

Martin Luther

Sailed to Japan, forced Japan to trade

Matthew Perry

Leader of French Revolution, Jacobin, Reign of Terror

Maximillian Robespierre

Leader of USSR, detente, perestroika/Glasnost, eased up on Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev

Civil Disobedience, Indian Independence, protests caste system

Mohandus Ghandi

Separtion of Powers/ Checks and balances

Montesqueiu

Nationalist leader of Turkey, secular, modernized Turkey

Mustafa Jemal Ataturk

Emperor of France, civil code, invades Russia and fails

Napoleon Bonaparte

Civil disobedience, protests apartheid in South Africa, becomes 1st Black President of S. Africa

Nelson Mandela

Prime Minister of England, Appeases Adilf Hitler

Neville Chamberlain

Wrote "The Prince", believes in total power

Niccolo Machiavelli

Heliocentric Theory

Nicholas Copernicus

Leader of USSR, Cuban Missile Crisis

Nikita Khruschev

Chancellor of Germany, unification, Blood and Iron

Otto von Bismarck

Governor of Athens, direct democracy

Pericles

Czar of Russia, Absolute Monarchy, Warm water port

Peter the Great

Absolute Monarch of Spain

Philip II

Dictator of Cambodia, killing fields, genocide, communist

Pol Pot

Starts the Crusades

Pope Urban II

Explorer of England

Prince Henry the Navigator

Greek Writer/ Astrologist

Ptolemy

Modern Leader of Russia, took over Crimea

Vladimir Putin

Pawned idea of "White Man's Burden"

Rudyard Kipling

Dictator of Iraq, WMD's, invaded by America

Sadaam Hussein

Muslim leader of Crusades

Saladin

Dictator of Iran, secular, loses to Allatollah Khomeini

Shah Reza Pahlavi

Leader of Zulu nation

Shaka Zulu

Chinese Emperor, Legalism/ Great Wall, Qin Dynasty

Shi Huangdi

Gran Colombia, Unified much of Latin America

Simon Bolivar

Leader of Ottoman Empire

Suleiman the Magnificent

Leader of China before it turns Communist

Sun Yixian

Opposed John Locke, writes "The Leviathan"

Thomas Hobbes

Explorer, goes around Africa to reach India for Portugal

Vasco da Gama

Leads Russian Revolution and creates Communist Russia (USSR)

Vladimir Lenin

Enlightenment writer, freedom of speech

Voltaire

Famous English writer

William Shakespeare

Prime Minister of England, fights Hitler and Iron Curtain

Winston Churchill

Explorer for China, goes to Africa, leads to isolation

Zheng He