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Susan B. Anthony
- American suffragette
- helped women earn the right to vote
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Osama bin Laden
- Saudi revolutionary
- founded al-Qaeda, 9/11/01, terror attacks US, militant Islamist group
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Napoleon Bonaparte
- French ruler
- declared himself emperor
- established civil reforms (Civic Code)
- died in exile on a small island St. Helena
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John Calvin
- French theologian
- father of Calvinism
- believed in predestination
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Charles III
- Spanish king
- reform and eliminated laws that restricted internal trade
- strong Catholic, expelled Jesuits, entered American Revolution on American side
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Joan d'Arc
- French saint
- tried for heresy by England and burned at the stake 1431
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Frederick Douglass
- Author and abolitionist
- escaped slave, persuaded Lincoln to work to free slaves
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Desiderius Erasmus
- Dutch Renaissance Christian humanist
- wrote:In Praise of Folly
- self improvement through education
- priest, highly critical of abuses of the church
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Frederick the Great
- King of Prussia
- questioned religion/morality/power
- 23yrs@war 23bldg honest
- (abolish torture of prisoners)
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Mohatma Gandhi
- Indian spiritual leader
- non violent opposition to British gvmnt in India
- humanitarian, catalyst for change in areas of civil disobedience
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Che Guevara
- South American revolutionary
- Cuban revolution
- fought against Batista regime
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Henry IV
(Henry of Navarre)
- French Calvanist, King
- converted to Catholicism
- Edict of Nantes in 1589 extended religious tolerance to Huguenots
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Henry VIII
- King of England
- separated Church of England from Roman Catholic Church
- eradicated papacy making himself Supreme Head of the Church
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Saddam Hussein
- Iraqi President
- Ba'ath party member
- executed in 2006 by USA for housing weapons of mass destructions
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Martin Luther King
- African American activist, Civil Rights Movement leader
- "I Have a Dream" speech, Nobel Peac Price-ending racial discrimination via non-violent civil disobedience
- Assassinated 1968
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Leopold I
- Austrian emperor
- Patron of arts, Catholic
- drove Turkish army from Austria
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Vladimir Lenin
- Articulate, Communist Soviet Union leader
- led Bolshevik Revolution
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Louis XIV
- King of France
- longest monarch reign (European), divine right of kings, sought to eliminate feudalism
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Martin Luther
Augustinian friar/teacher initiated Reformation in Germany. Salvation through faith
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Karl Marx
- author/philosopher
- created principles/ideology of communism
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Thomas More
- lawyer/Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII of England
- "utopia"
- executed by Henry for refusing to recognize him as Supreme Head.
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Thomas a Kempis
- German mystic
- The Imitation of Christ
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Peter the Great
- Tsar of Russia
- 7ft tall (strong/energetic), modernize Russia
- Treaty of Nystad with Sweden=Livonia and Estonia
- built city of St. Petersburg
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Philip V
- Spanish King
- Modernized Spanish army
- revived industry, agriculture, ship-building.
- son ruled afterwards (Ferdinand VI)
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J.D. Rockefeller
- leader in American corporate industrialism
- revolutionized the petroleum industry
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Joseph Stalin
- Soviet Union Supreme leader
- Strident Communist (iron hand leader)
- Millions died bcuz of policies
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John Wycliffe
- English friar, church should follow scriptures
- translated Bible into English
- "Morning Star" of Reformation
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Mao Zedong
(Mao Tse-tung)
- Chinese Cultural Revolution
- instituted Communism in People's Republic of China
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