World Citizens

Johann Gutenberg

Printing press. Bibles, more literacy. Spread info and religion.

Queen Isabella I

Spanish monarch. Deeply Catholic. Spanish INquisition. Sponsors Columbus. Unites Spain.

Christopher Columbus

was looking for a faster route to Indonesia and India. credited with discovering Americas

John Locke

British philosopher in 17th century. separatting church and state. government should derive its power from the consent of the people. night watchman. Thomas Jefferson borrows many ideas from him

Benjamin Franklin

inventor. father of France. America’s renaissance man. lightning rod. poor richard’s almanac

George Washington

General in U.S. revolution. first president.

Thomas Jefferson

Louisiana Purchase. author of Declaration of Independence. smart. renaissance man.most intellectual president

Abraham Lincoln

Emancipation Proclamation. Civil War President

Eleanor Roosevelt

niece of a president and wife of another. women’s rights activist. had a column. helped found United Nations. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission”

Margaret Sanger

got birth control out on the market. periodical called Woman Rebel. founded Planned Parenthood

Franklin D. Roosevelt

only president to serve more than 2 terms. Got us out of Great Depression. New Deal. Also WWII president. had weekly radio broadcast called Fireside Chats.

William the Conqueror

last successful invader of British Isles

Queen Elizabeth I

authoratative monarch. never married. layed foundation for ascendence of british empire

William Shakespeare

wrote plays and sonnets. Queen Elizabeth was queen during this time. During Renaissance

Queen Victoria

queen for 64 years. black everyday. overran Ireland. idea of proper and posh came from her. morals. British empire reached peak during rule

Julius Caesar

first Caesar. expands Roman Empire. conquered Gaul. love interest was Cleopatra. Got murdered. crossed Rubicon

Cleopatra

Egyptian Queen.

Augustus Caesar

Benevolent Desput. cleaned up Rome.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women’s rights movement was guided by her works. An Education of Daughters. A Vindication on the Rights of Women

Sigmund Freud

psychoanalysis. psychology. id, ego, and superego

Homer

Odyssey and Iliad

Socrates

had method named after him. from Athens. asked questions leading to him asking more. higher level questions and listen

Plato

Aristocracy. wrote Dialogues. came up with idea of school. teachers identify exceptional students and make them public servants. government for benefit of citizens. rule by the best

Aristotle

prized student. expert of everything. thought slavery was proper and women were inferior. thought Earth was at the center of universe.

Alexander the Great

expanded his empire to India. interesting military strategies. give all your effort to opponent’s strength-they aren’t going to beat you with their weakest. ton of kids

Charles Darwin

natural selection. finches. naturalist

Buddha

Hindu prince. awakened

Abraham

grew up in Iraq where there was pagan. says there is one god. runs to Promised Land.

Muhammad

not supposed to be depicted. started Muslim empire

Umar

third Muslim ruler. expanded Muslim empire quickly

Jesus Christ

Christianity was based on his teachings

Martin Luther

catholic monk in Germany. wrote 95 thesis. Set off the Protestant Reformation

Peter the Great

became czar at 4. invests in secuar education in Russia. brings renaissance to russia and expands to the west

Karl Marx

founder of the idea of Communism.

Lenin

russian. educated. established Soviet Union

Stalin

not educated. not educated. cold-hearted. single death is a tragedy statistic

Mikhail Gorbachev

in power during collapse of Soviet Union. gave a bit of freedom, Soviet Union collapsed

Alfred Nobel

invented dynamite. prize named after him

Jean Henri Dunant

Red Cross and Ymca. First recipient of the Nobel Prize

Niccolo Machiavelli

wrote the prince. the ends justify the means

St Thomas More

His Utopia. beheaded for not allowing King Henry VIII to divorceN

Napoleon Bonaparte

military dictator of france . waterloo

Martin Luther King Jr.

prominent civil rights leader. great speaker. more liked after death.

Simon Bolivar

Venezuelan statesman and military officer. created multiple revolutions. first dictator of Venezuela. led Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from Spain

Eva Duarte Perón

wife of Argentinian dictator, advocated for rural, poor Argentinians, helped bankrupt Argentina, networked for Nazis to escape to Argentina, teenage prostitue,

Joan of Arc

saw visions to lead an army against the British, restored France’s king to throne, charged with heresy.

Rene Descartes

Renaissance philosopher and mathematician, don’t trust anything, don’t take your senses for granted

Louis Pasteur

Germ theory, bacteria, handwashing, extended life expectancy

Golda Meir

early Zionist. couldn’t meet with neighboring countries because she was a woman. pretended to be a guy. went on national television to announce that she refused to negotiate with terrorists.

Mother Teresa

nun from Albania. devoted life to charity. won Nobel Peace Prize