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Foundations (8000 BCE – 600 CE)

Hammurabi

Abraham

Moses

Buddha

Confucius

Laozi

Socrates

Aristotle

Alexander the Great

Shi Huang Di/ Qin Shihuangdi,

Asoka

Jesus of Nazareth

600-1450

Justinian

Muhammad

Genghis (Chinggis) Khan

Khubilai Khan

Marco Polo

Saladin

Mansa Musa

Ibn Battuta

Zheng He

Pachacuti Inca

1450-1750

Bartolomeu Dias

Christopher Columbus

Martin Luther

Hernán Cortés

Francisco Pizarro

Akbar

Atahualpa

Moctezuma II

Elizabeth I

Louis XIV

Ivan IV

Peter the Great

King Nzinga/Afonso I

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Aurangzeb

Suleyman the Magnificent

Shah Ismail

1750-1914

Napoleon Bonaparte

Adam Smith

Prince von Metternich

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Commodore Perry

Simón Bolívar

Abraham Lincoln

Porfirio Díaz

Muhammad Ali

Cecil Rhodes

Queen Victoria

King Leopold II

Alexander II

1914-present

Woodrow Wilson

Mustapha Kemal

V.I. Lenin

Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler

Mussolini

Haile Selaisse

Sun Yat-sen / Sun Yixian

Chiang Kai-shek / Jiang Jeishi

Mao Zedong / Mao Tse-tung

Deng Xiaoping

Ho Chi Minh

Ngo Dinh Diem

Mohandas Gandhi

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Fidel Castro

Nikita Kruschev

Vaclav Havel

Ayatollah Khomeini

Mikhail Gorbachev

Jomo Kenyatta

Kwame Nkrumah

Patrice Lumumba

Nelson Mandela

Saddam Hussein

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Yitzhak Rabin

Yasser Arafat

Anwar Sadat

Kim Il-Sung

Corazon Aquino

Benazir Bhutto

King Abdallah II

Vincente Fox

Sukarnoputri Megawati