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For the ones who want a plain list of all figures- here you go:

• Ibn Batutta -  Traveled across all of the (old) world and wrote down everything.
• Marco Polo - Italian Traveler (helped bring about the Renaissance).
• Margery Kempe - Christian Mystic.
• A’ishah Al-Bauniyyah - Female sufi poet.
• Genghis Khan - Mongol Leader
• Mansa Musa - wealthy Musa of Mali(pilgrimage to Mecca)
• Tamerlane - Turco-Mongol conqueror
• Prince Henry the Navigator - influenced Portuguese maritime travel
• Sundiata - Founder of Mali
• Zheng He - Chinese Navigator
• Suleiman I - Greatest Ottoman Sultan
• Pugachev -  Cossack rebel
• Bartolomeu Dias - Portuguese Navigator
• Martin Luther - 95 Theses, started the Protestant Reformation
• Akbar the Great - Mughal leader, very religiously tolerant
• King Louis XIV - French King(absolutism) 
• Peter the Great - Russian Czar
• Ferdinand Magellan - Circumnavigator
• Ana Nzinga - the Queen of Ndongo, drove British imperialism out.
• Adam Smith - created laissez-faire economics
• James Watt- Inventor (invented the Watt)
• Louverture - leader of the Haitian Revolution 
• Robespierre - French Revolutionary leader, also the leader of the Reign of Terror
• Napoleon - French Emperor (short)
• Simon Bolivar - Latin American liberator (Jamaica Letter!!)
• Matthew Perry - Opened Japan’s doors for trade with the U.S.
• Otto Von Bismarck - Unified Germany held the Berlin Conference.
• King Leopold II - Belgian Imperialist of rubber in the Congo
• Cecil Rhodes - created the De Beers Diamond Company
• Henry Ford - created the Assembly line
• John Locke - Enlightenment thinker, life, liberty, and pursuit of property.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Women’s suffrage in Seneca Falls, NY, abolitionist.
• Yaa Asantewaa - the Ashanti queen drove British imperialism out.
• Gandhi - nonviolent Indian freedom fighter. 
• Michael Sadler - Sadler Report in Britain on Child Labor.
• Karl Marx - created Marxism later known as Communism
• Jose Rizal - Filipino Nationalist (used propaganda)
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand - the heir to the Austrian throne, who was assassinated.
• Gavrillo Princip - Assassinated Franz Ferdinand, immediate cause of WWI
• Stalin - Soviet Communist leader responsible for millions of deaths (Holodomor)
• Lenin - Led the Bolsheviks and took over Russia, Communist but used Capitalistic components in the economy
• Ho Chi Minh - a Vietnamese Nationalist, asked the U.S. to help fight the French but had to turn to the Soviets (mistakenly called a communist, HE WAS NOT)
• Krushchev - Soviet leader during the Cold War
• Deng Xiaoping - Chinese Communist leader
• Idi Amin - Ugandan military leader(dictator)
• Martin Luther King Jr. - A nonviolent civil rights activist in the U.S., protested against segregation.
• Osama Bin Laden - Leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist group that was responsible for 9/11
• Czar Nicholas II -  Last Czar of Russia (bad leader)
• Mao Zedong - China's Communist leader, responsible for the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
• Kwame Nkrumah - First President of Free Ghana
• Nelson Mandela - a nonviolent (at first) protester against apartheid in South Africa.
• Pol Pot -  Communist Cambodian leader
• Sun Yat-Sen - a Chinese Nationalist, created the Republic of China (Former day Taiwan)
• Douglas MacArthur - American general for WWI and WWII
• Franklin D. Roosevelt - created the New Deal to pull the United States out of the Great Depression
•  Adolf Hitler - Responsible for WWII, killing millions of Jews in the Holocaust.
• Francisco Franco - Spanish Dictator (authoritarian)
• Indira Gandhi - Prime Minister of India (no relation to Mahatma Gandhi)
• Fidel Castro - Communist leader in Cuba
• Gorbachev - The last leader of the Soviet Union, created the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika that led to the fall of the Soviet Union. 
• Norman Borlaug - Started the Green Revolution. 
• Mary Wollstonecraft - Created modern feminism and sparked movements around the world. (e.g., Seneca Falls, NY)
• Ataturk - Modernized Turkey using Western traditions. 

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