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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