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global review
global final tomorrow
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9th Grade
06/13/2011

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Montesquieu
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Enlightenment thinker who created checks and balances and separation of powers
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Emperor Constantine
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first Byzantine emperor who relocated capital to Constantinople
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Julius Caesar
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Roman dictator who seized power before Augustus; he marked the end of the Republic
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Augustus Caesar
(Octavian)
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first official ruler of the Roman empire and had a Pax Romana under his rule
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Hernando/Hernan Cortes
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conquered the Aztecs in Mexico and made it a spanish colony (takes down Montezuma
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Vasco de Gama
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first european to go around the tip of Africa and reach India (sailed for Portugal)
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Christopher Columbus
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Italian who explored for Spain who found the New World and started the Columbian exchange
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Francisco Pizarro
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spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan empire in search for gold, god and glory (takes down Attahuapa)
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Leonardo da Vinci
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true Renissance man who had many inventions and painting of the Mona Lisa
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Johann Gutenberg
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changed the way messages were spread which opened the way for education, teaching and exploration during the Renissance
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Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
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financed Columbuses voyage and continued the reconquista to get rid of non Catholics
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Galileo
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enlightenment thinker who perfected the heliocentric theory and invented the telescope; goes against the church (inquisition)
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Genghis Khan
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absolute ruler who turned Mongols to largest empire in world and had the Pax mongolia
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Henry VIII
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king of England who was known for creating the Anglican church from the Catholic church and had six marriages
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Thomas Hobbes
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enlightenment man who believed absolute government was only way to keep people under control
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John Locke
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enlightenment thinker who stressed the belief of life, liberty, and property that still affects us today
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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"the end justifies the means"; renissance writer who influences future dictators
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Emperor Justinian
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stabelized the Byzantine the empire by Justinan code of laws
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Louis XIV
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sun king; god chose him to rule; built the palace of Versallies and got rid of the Edict of Nantes
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Martin Luther
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starts Protestantism by going against some of the Churches major beliefs
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Mansa Musa
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Muslim emperor of Mali who got rich off the gold and salt trade
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Volatire
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French philosphe who promoted freedom of speech and freedom of religion
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Ibn Batuta
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traveled the Muslim, African world and wrote down his observations
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Zheng He
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Chinese explorer who spread Chinese culture
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Philip II
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king of Spain who was very religious and did not like any one non Catholic
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Marco Polo
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Italian traveler who wrote a book on his travels to China -cause for the age of exploration
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Peter the Great
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absolute monarch of Russia who modernized Russia and gained a warm water sea port by sea with Sweeden
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Nicholas Copernicus
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known for coming up with the heliocentric theory
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Alexander the Great
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emperor in ancient Greece who conquered Greece, Persia, India and Egypt and created the Hellenistic culture
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