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New Midterm People
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History
10th Grade
01/17/2009

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Akbar (Mughal Emperor)
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(r. 1556-1605), Babur’s grandson, began to build a walled capital, was called “Fatehpur Sikri”, religious tolerance, tried to set up Divine Faith
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Anne Hutchinson
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A religious dissenter from the MA Bay Colony who argued that the clergy were not entitled to any spiritual authority and who challenged prevailing assumptions about the role of women in society. She was banished and moved first to Rhode Island and then to New York.
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Ieyasu Tokugawa
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made the government headquarters at Edo (Tokyo), set up a system called sankin-kotai that had daimyos (lords) travel to Edo every other year. Also set up the spies called metsuke.
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Elizabeth I of England
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wanted no marriage, wanted parliament, created the poor laws, had the statue of apprentices, helped to start balance of power.
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Galileo Galilei
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discovered the universal laws of physics, thought up inertia.
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Genghis Khan (aka Temujin)
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united Mongols in 1206 from many Nomad clans, made a law system called the Yasa, created calvalry, officers chosen by ability, not family, was entitled Genghis Khan, meaning “universal ruler.”
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Henry of Navarre, King Henry IV
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first monarch of the bourbon dynasty, he converted from protestant to catholic, created the Edict of Nantes (1598)
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King Henry VIII
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Separated the Church of England from the Pope after he was denied a divorce, establishing himself as the head of the Church of England
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King Henry VIII
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Separated the Church of England from the Pope after he was denied a divorce, establishing himself as the head of the Church of England
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Ignatius of Loyola
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Born 1491, founded the society of Jesus, aka Jesuits.
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Isaac Newton
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wrote Principia in 1687, created Calculus to prove his work.
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James I of England
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was the beginning of the Stuart Dynasty, was also James I of Ireland, and James VI of Scots. Son of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)
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Italian navigator and explorer, explored North America in 1497.
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John Winthrop
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Founder and governor of the MA Bay Colony, who urged his fellow Puritan colonists to make their settlement "a city upon a hill," a shining godly example for the world to emulate and admire.
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Kubli Khan
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(r. 1260-1294) was the first mongol emperor of China, conquered Korea and was visited by Marco Polo
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Mona Lisa, The Last Supper; was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor and writer.
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Louis XIV
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“sun king”, “I am the state!”, loved himself, spent much too much money on unimportant things
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Martin Luther
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Protestant who started Lutheranism, wrote “The 95 Theses”
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Mary I ("Bloody Mary")
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Edward VI's half sister, who became queen when he died, 300 protestants burned at the stake
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Michelangelo
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Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Dome of St. Peters Basilica, sculpted David and Pieta.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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believed that earth was round in axis
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Philip II of Spain
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(r.1556-1598) “prudent king” catholic, enemy of protestants, had the El Escorial built
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Rene Descartes
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believed that truth could be reached through reason. Invented analytic geometry, math was the “perfect model for clear and certain knowledge”
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Suleiman I “The Magnificant”
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greatest sultan, ruled during the Ottoman peak.
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William Bradford
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Governor of the separatist Plymouth colony, who also wrote a first-hand history of the settlement.
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