Louis XIV “Sun King” / Place & Time Period:
1643, France / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Absolutism
  • Palace of Versailles-
Sun Palace – symbol
of his power
Peter the Great
/ Place & Time Period:
1689, Russia / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Absolutism
  • Built St. Petersburg
  • Westernized Russia
  • “Beard Tax” to make men shave
  • Window to the west

Hammurabi
/ Place & Time Period:
1750 BC, Ancient Babylon / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Hammurabi’s Code of Law
  • “Eye for an Eyes”

Kubla Khan
/ Place & Time Period:
1268, Mongolian Empire / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Extends the empire
  • Takes over China
and starts the Yuan
Dynasty
Elizabeth I
/ Place & Time Period:
1558, England’s “Golden Age” / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Elizabethan Age in the arts
  • Used marriage as a
Political tool
  • Time of peace

Charlemagne
/ Place & Time Period:
700’s, Europe / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Tried to reunite the
old Roman Empire
Confucius
/ Place & Time Period:
551 BC, China / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Confucius vs. Legalism
  • Wanted to maintain
order in society
  • 5 relationships

Tokugawa Ieyasu
/ Place & Time Period:
1603, Japan / / Major Ideas/ Achievements
  • Ends feudalism by
starting a central
government
Zheng He
/ Place & Time Period:
1405, China’s Ming Dynasty / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Explorer who sailed the Pacific
  • Brought cultural diffusion to China
  • Voyages ended upon his death

Marco Polo
/ Place & Time Period:
1271, Italy---China / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Italian who explored China
  • Made Europeans curious about China

Mansa Musa
/ Place & Time Period:
1200’s, Mali, Africa / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Gold/Salt trade
  • Advanced before European arrival

Hernando Cortez
/ Place & Time Period:
1500’s, Spain---New World / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Conquered the Aztecs
  • Better weapons than the Aztecs
  • Spanish had horses
  • Introduced new diseases

Francisco Pizzaro
/ Place & Time Period:
1500’s, Spain---New World / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Conquered Incas

Martin Luther
/ Place & Time Period:
1500’s, Germany / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • 95 Theses
  • Started the Protestant Reformation
  • Lutheran Church

Moctezuma
/ Place & Time Period:
1500’s, Mexico / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Leader of the Aztecs
  • Killed by Spanish Conquerors

John Calvin
/ Place & Time Period:
1500’s, Switzerland / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Followed in Luther’s beliefs
  • Predestination

Nicollo Machiavelli
/ Place & Time Period:
1400’s, Italy / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Author of The Prince
  • “The ends justify the means”

Henry VIII
/ Place & Time Period:
1500’s, England / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Killed many wives
  • Started the Anglican Church

Nicolaus Copernicus
/ Place & Time Period:
Late 1400’s, Poland / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Developed the heliocentric (sun-centered) theory
  • Observation and experimentation

Galileo Galilei
/ Place & Time Period:
1600’s, Italy / / Major Ideas/
Achievements
  • Supported the heliocentric theory, using the telescope