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- Suleyman I
- Ottoman Emperor; united the Arab world; conquered half of known world; laid the basis of mistrust between Muslims and Christians
- Gregor Mendel
- father of genetics; studied pea plants; found recessive and dominant traits
- Joseph Stalin
- became a merciless dictator to Russia; provoked Cold War; industrialized Russia
- Sigmund Freud
- father of pyschoanalysis; developed words such as ego, super ego, and id
- Vasco de Gama
- blazed 1st sea trail around Africa
- Mao Zedong
- leader of China's communist revolution; killed millions of people; ruled for 27 yrs.
- Alexander Graham Bell
- inventor of the telephone in 1876
- Karl Marx
- father of communism;
- Walt Disney
- 1923- opened small animation studio; created worldwide media empire, brought families and countries together
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- voice of America's civil rights movement; leaves legacy of hope and equality; "i have a dream"..
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- original feminist; "a vindication for the rights of women"
- Pablo Picasso
- 91 yrs, 20,000 works of art; changed rules of art/ redefined the shapes of paintings and sculptures
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- 1. What is power? 2. How does power work? 3. How do you get power? 4. How do you lose power?; "the prince"; immorality in rulers belief
- Elizabeth I
- queen of England; one of 1st great spin doctors; reigned for nearly 45 yrs
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- struck with polio; only president to be elected 4 terms; "new deal" for great depression.
- Galileo Galilei
- discovered modern astronomy;saw blemishes on moon; reinvented telescope; symbol for freedom and thought
- Adolf HItler
- German dictator; responsible for the decline of Europe; used propaganda to propel himself to power; attempted to wipe all Jews off of planet; 50 million deaths total and reason for WWII.
- Albert Einstein
- E=mc(squared); father of the nuclear age; published theory of relativity
- Mikhail Gordachev
- last leader of the Soviet Union; wanted to preserve communism; his reforms unintentionally led to the fall of communism
- Thomas Jefferson
- wrote declaration of independence; founding father and 3rd president; doubled US with Louisiana Purchase
- Henry Ford
- created the assembly line; made the infamous Model T car; built one of the greatest industrial empires in the world
- Louis Pasteur
- French biochemist; killed bacteria by heating; discovered pasteurization. 1. his method killed diseases 2. food was safer 3. lifespan was doubled over next century
- Nicolas Cappernicus
- 1st scientist to understand world moves and goes around the sun; used math rather than telescopes
- Nelson Mandela
- 1st black president of South Africa; imprisoned for 20 years
- Charles Babbage
- father of the computer
- Isabella I
- helped shape modern Spain; set in motion the Spanish Inquisition; married Kind Ferdinand
- Guglielme Marconi
- invented the radio at age of 21; changed the way the world communicated
- James Watt
- godfather of the industrial revolution; found that water + heat = steam; invented 1st practical steamboat; label units of power=watts
- Jonas Salk
- invented the polio vaccine in 1950s
- James Watson
- unlocked the DNA molecules structure; nobel prize in 1962;