Honors Semester 1 Final Exam-People You Should Know

Started Judaism+Monotheism

Egyptian Pharaoh who tried to change main God from Amon-Re to Aton

Macedonian military genius who lead army east to conquer more land east than anyone before him-started Helenism-mix of cultures

Nomadic people in India who moved into Europe; led by chiefs called rajahs; wrote the Vedas

Provided Evidence supporting Heliocentric Universe; Danish scientist

Venetian navigator who found fishing grounds off Newfoundland and claimed them for England

Ocatvian; builds stable Roman Government; began Roman Empire

Stated Calvinism; predestination; Frech but worked in Geneva Switzerland; theocracy-government by religious officials

Found tomb of Kind Tut

Discovered St. Laurence River; sailed the coast of Canada

Embraced Western Ideas; Russian Monarch

"Charles the Great"; fought Muslims; Holy Roman Emperor; created Christian Europe

Signed the Petition of Right, Ignored Parliament; made many enemies; made enemies; executed; started civil

very popular King of England; reestablishes the Church of England; tolerates Protestants

Born in Genoa; Discovered the Americas while sailing for Spain

Developed Confucianism and philosophy-a way of thinking

Published "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres"; created idea of heliocentricity

Spanish Conquistador who conquered the Aztecs

Portugese navigator that led ships around Cape of Good Faith; Got to Indian port of Calicut

discovered Knossos/Thera on Crete and Minoan Civilization

Fredrick II; Made prussia a major world power; great military leader

Assembled first telescope; tried by the Inquisition; proved Heliocentricity

Mongol Emperor; "Universal Ruler"; united tribes to create Mongol Empire

King of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law.

founder of legalism and believed that harsh punishments were the only way to control people

Created Church of England; executed Wives;

English Navigator; tried to find the northwest passage; Hudson Bay

Catholic; appointed Catholics to High Office; Parliament Overthrew him to prevent change to Roman Catholic Church; fled to France but caught

Christianity; claimed he was Messiah; told about in Gospels; crucified

Dictator of Rome; made reforms to better Rome; murdered by Senators

Used Brahe's work to calculate orbits of plates around the sun; discovered that plants move in ellipses

Calvinist preacher; led rebellion overthrowing Catholic Queen in Scottland

Created Doaism; wrote the Doa De Jing; believed in living in Harmony with Nature

became monarch of France at 5; built Palace of Versailles; appointed officials to oversee overseas trading and colonies; gained control over North Amerca; Believed God had chosen him to be Monarch

Started Protestant Refromation; Wrote 95 thesis; Lutherism

First man to circumnavigate the entire earth; renamed the Pacific Ocean

Greatest ruler of Mali in Africa; Peace + Order; took Hajj to Mecca

Daughter of Charles VI in Austria; fought War of Austrian Succession

Renews God's covenant with Abraham for Israelites; 10 Commandments; spent 40 years in desert

Born in Mecca; Created Islam

Created Sikhism; Combined Islam and Hindu Beliefs

Started Roman Catholic Church; Apostle of Jesus

Put Russia on path to becoming a world power; westernized Russia; expanded Russia

Expanded Spanish Influence; strengthened Catholic Church; as absolute Ruler of Spain

Slaughtered Incans; took over Incan Empire

German Businessman who excavated Troy using Homers the Odyssey

Started Buddhism; Born in India

Persian Thinker; United Persia; Rejected Persian Gods