People in History

The 100 Most important people/figures/groups of people to know in World History

WORLD RELIGIONS

1. Abraham

2. Moses

3. Gautama

4. Jesus of Nazareth

5. Allah

6. Muhammad

ANCIENT WORLD

1. Hammurabi

2. Socrates

3. Alexander the Great

4. Julius Caesar

MEDIEVAL/CRUSADES/CATHOLIC CHURCH/RENAISSANCE

1. Michelangelo

2. Erasmus

3. Shakespeare

4. Turks

5. Leonardo da Vinci

6. Pope

7. Johannes Gutenberg

REFORMATION

1. Martin Luther

2. John Calvin

3. Jesuits

4. Elizabeth I

5. Henry VIII

EXPLORATION

1. Prince Henry

2. Columbus

3. Magellan

4. Drake

5. Cortez

6. Pizarro

7. Cartier

8. Da Gama

WORLD EMPIRES (where? religion? what known for?)

1. Mughals

2. Ottomans

3. Songhai

4. Japanese

5. Chinese

6. Aztecs

7. Incas

8. Mayans

ABSOLUTE MONARCHS

1. Louis XIV

2. Catherin the Great

3. Frederick the Great

4. Peter the Great

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

1. Copernicus

2. Kepler

3. Gallileo

4. Harvey

5. Newton

ENLIGHTENMENT/AGE OF REASON

1. Montesquieu

2. Mozart

3. Voltaire

4. Rousseau

5. Hobbes

6. Locke

7. Jefferson

8. Bach

9. Delacroix

10. Cervantes

ENGLISH CIVIL WAR/GLORIOUS REVOLUTION/FRENCH REVOLUTION/CONGRESS OF VIENNA/OTHER REVOLUTIONS/UNIFICATIONS

1. William & Mary

2. Napoleon

3. Metternich

4. Charles I

5. Cromwell

6. Third Estate

7. Louis XVI

8. Toussaint L'Ouverture

9. Bolivar

10. Cavour

11. Garibaldi

12. Bismarck

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION & IMPERIALISM

1. Whitney

2. Watt

3. Bessemer

4. Smith

5. Jenner

6. Pasteur

7. Commodore Perry

8. Karl Marx

WORLD WAR I & BETWEEN WARS

1. Archduke Ferdinand

2. Tsar Nicholas II

3. Bolsheviks

4. Lenin

5. Woodrow Wilson

6. Hitler

7. Mussolini

8. Stalin

9. Tojo

WORLD WAR II & COLD WAR

1. FDR

2. Truman

3. MacArthur

4. Marshall

5. Eisenhower

6. Churchill

7. Ronald Reagan

8. Mikhail Gorbachev

9. Fidel Castro

COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONS AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS

1. Mao

2. Chiang

3. Ho Chi Min

4. Ghandi

5. Kenyatta

6. Mandela