People

1. People Global Review

2. Who am I? • I set up a secular (worldly) government in Turkey. • I westernized industry, schools & culture. • I am the “Father of Modern Turkey”. • I suppressed the Kurd’s revolts for autonomy (self-rule). • Ataturk

3. Who am I? • I became the leader of Iran after the Iranian Revolution. • I set up a strict Islamic Fundamentalist government. • I banned all western technology & ideas. • I used terrorism & kidnapped 52 American hostages. • I fought Iraq for 8 years. • Ayatollah Khomeini

4. Who am I? • I am Henry the 8th’s • daughter. • I made England a world power. • I defeated the Spanish Armada. • I encouraged trade & • nationalism. • I allowed limited religious • toleration. • Elizabeth I

5. Who am I? • I believe that people were born with natural rights- life, liberty & property. • I am an Enlightened thinker who believes it is a ruler’s job to protect natural rights. • I believe the people should overthrow the ruler if he doesn’t protect these rights. • I believe in democracy. • I encouraged the American, French & Latin American Revolutions. • John Locke

6. Who am I? • I wrote the Wealth of Nations. • I believe in laissez-faire economics (govt. keeps hands off). • I believe in a free market economy. • I believe supply & demand & competition will solve economic problems. • I believe in private ownership of businesses. • Adam Smith

7. Who am I? • I was the leader of Iran before the Iranian Revolution. • I introduced Western ideas & technology. • I had schools indoctrinate children with western ways. • I built expensive buildings & had elaborate parties while the majority of people lived poorly. • Shah Pahlavi

8. Who am I? • I wrote The Prince; a handbook for rulers. • I gave advice on how to increase & hold power. • I said, “The ends justifies the means”. • I said, “It’s better to be feared than loved”. • I believe that rulers should be cruel not kind. • I will be quoted on your global essay about leaders!!! • Machiavelli

9. Who am I? • I was the communist leader of U.S.S.R. after Lenin. • I put peasants on collective farms. • I had 5 Year Plans to increase agricultural output, heavy industry & military. • I killed my opposition in the Great Purge. • I would not let Germany be united & put a blockade around Berlin. • Josef Stalin

10. Who am I? • I was the leader of Iraq. • I was supported by the U.S. in an 8 year war with Iran. • I invaded Kuwait & started the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm). • I used violence & chemical warfare to suppress the Kurd’s revolt for autonomy. • I refused to let U.N. weapon’s inspectors in to check for weapon’s of mass destruction. • Saddam Hussein

11. Who am I? • I was the leader of the communist Soviet Union. • My policy of glasnost (openness) & perestroika (restructuring of the govt.) led to the break up of the U.S.S.R. • Eastern European satellites became independent while I was leader. • Gorbachev

12. Who am I? • I began the Protestant Reformation. • I wrote the 95 Theses to criticize the RCC. • The sale of indulgences, the Bible in Latin & not the vernacular (everyday language) & the corrupt lifestyles of the clergy were my main complaints. • The printing press helped spread my ideas. • I started the Lutheran religion(Protestant Christianity). • Martin Luther

13. Who am I? • The R.C.C. would not annul my marriage & I wanted a male heir. • I created the Anglican Church of England (Protestant). • I seized Catholic property & money. • I had 6 wives: Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. • Henry VIII (8th)

14. Who am I? • I wrote the Communist Manifesto because of the poor working conditions of the Industrial Revolution. • I believe that violent class struggle is inevitable. • I believe that capitalism created class struggle & poverty. • My ideas were used in the U.S.S.R., China, Vietnam & Cuba. • Karl Marx

15. Who am I? • I am the Sun King; the center of life. • I spent too much money building the Palace at Versailles. • I fought costly wars & lost land in North America. • I used mercantilism to improve the economy. • I threw the Heugonauts (Protestants) out of France & it hurt our economy. • French language, fashion & cooking become popular throughout Europe. • Louis XIV (14)

16. Who am I? • I was the leader of the Bolshevik party (Communist) in Russia. • I returned from exile & led the Russian Revolution “Peace, Land & Bread” –Nov. 1917 • I became the first communist leader of the U.S.S.R. • My New Economic Policy (N.E.P.) allowed some elements of capitalism. • Lenin

17. Who am I? • I seized power in a coup d’etat. • I conquered all of Europe except England & Russia. • My Napoleonic Code made men equal before the law, guaranteed religious freedom & reduced the power of the R.C.C. • I invaded Russia & failed due to their “scorched earth policy”. • I was exiled to Elba and escaped to fight at the Battle of Waterloo (which I lost). • I was exiled a second time to St. Helens where I died. • Napoleon….I was not that short 

18. Who am I? • I continued communist rule in China. • My program the 4 Modernizations allowed limited capitalism to help the economy. • I instituted the One Child Policy. • I suppressed a pro-democracy revolt in Tiananmen Square. • Deng Xiaoping

19. Who am I? • I am a militant anti-apartheid leader of the A.N.C. in Africa. • I wanted the black majority to have equality in their own country. • I was sentenced to life in prison & was released after 27 years by F.W. de Klerk. • I was elected president in 1994. • Nelson Mandela

20. Who am I? • I peacefully fought for independence for India. • I used civil disobedience; non-violent disobeying of unjust laws. • My followers & I marched to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt. • I was a Hindu but wanted to end discrimination based on the caste system. • I wanted Hindus & Muslims to live peacefully & fasted when they did not. • I was assassinated by a Hindu extremist. • Mahatma Gandhi

21. Who am I? • Leader of China after Sun Yixian’s death. • Forced Mao Zedong on a Long March. • I joined up with Mao to fight the Japanese. • After WWII, civil war resumes & Mao forced me & the Guomindong out of China to Taiwan. • I set up a democratic/capitalist government in Taiwan (Asian Tiger). • Jiang Jieshi (Chang Kai Shek)

22. Who am I? • I want to end foreign control of Vietnam. • I am the leader of the Viet Cong. • I use guerilla tactics. • I led the Communist Revolution in Vietnam; the U.S. backed the South Vietnamese. • The U.S. pulled out of Vietnam in 1975 & Vietnam was reunited. • Ho Chi Minh

23. Who am I? • I led a revolt against the Manchu Dynasty in China. • I believed in the Three Principles of the People-Nationalism, Democracy, Livilihood. • I was elected President of China in 1911 ending 1,000’s of years of rule by dynasties. • Jiang Jieshi took control after my death. • Sun Yixian

24. Who am I? • I am called “The Liberator” or “The George Washington of Latin America”. • I am a nationalist leader who opposes imperialism. • I organized military to help Venezuela, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador & Bolivia gain their independence from Spain. • I was influenced by the Enlightenment writers & the success of the American & French Revolutions. • My dream of Gran Columbia ended when civil wars erupted. • Simon Bolivar

25. Who am I? • I am the founder of the Chinese Communist party. • I went on forced Long March to flee Jiang Jieshi & was kind to peasants. • I drove Jiang Jieshi out of China in 1949. • My Little Red Book contained communist beliefs. • My Great Leap Forward tried to increase heavy industry & agriculture (failure). • I asked the Red Guard to attack people who were not communist enough in the Cultural Revolution. Mao Zedong

26. Who am I? • I led the Communist Revolution inCuba. • I improved education, built homes & hospitals & nationalized foreign-owned businesses. • I allied Cuba with the Soviet Union in the Cold War. • Hot spots; Bay of Pigs & the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK vs. Khruschev • Fidel Castro

27. Who am I? • I used the telescope to prove the heliocentric theory (sun-centered universe). • I challenged the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. • I was accused of being a heretic & put on house arrest. • Galileo

28. Who am I? • I was the Russian czarina who killed her husband & took control. • I gained a warm-water port on the Black Sea. • I partitioned (divided) Poland. • I was an Enlightened Despot, but I didn’t want to give up any of my power. • Catherine the Great

29. Who am I? • I am an Italian Renaissance Man. • I painted the Mona Lisa & the Last Supper. • I dissect bodies to learn how the body moved. • Leonardo da Vinci

30. Who am I? • I am an Italian who traveled to China. • I visited the court of Kublai Khan. • I wrote about what I saw & created an interest in the East. • Marco Polo

31. Who am I? • I am the great Muslim traveler. • I visited Egypt, Asia Minor, India & China. • I wrote about the things that I saw. • Ibn Battuta

32. Who am I? • I invented movable type for the printing press. • The printing press helped spread the ideas of the Protestant Reformation. • My invention increased literacy. • The first book published was the Bible. • Johann Gutenberg

33. Who am I? • I was the Frankish emperor in 800 C.E. • I was the Bright Light in the Dark Ages. • I was the most important ruler of the Middle Ages. • After my death, my sons could not keep my empire together and Europe fell to feudalism. • Charlemagne

34. Who am I? • I was the ruler of the African kingdom of Mali in the 1300’s. • I went on a hajj to Mecca in a camel caravan. • I threw gold at the passerbys & devalued gold for 20 years. • Mansa Musa

35. Who am I? • I am an autocrat in the Byzantine Empire. • I sent a team of scholars to gather and organize the ancient laws of Rome. • I created a code of laws based on Roman Law. • Innocent until proven guilty. • I had the church of Hagia Sophia built “Holy Wisdom”. • Emperor Justinian

36. Who am I? • I am a great nomadic horseman and bowman. Stir ups • I conquered areas of China & Russia. • I started the Mongol dynasty in the 1100’s C.E. • My name means “World Emperor”. • Genghis Khan

37. Who am I? • I am the greatest Mughal ruler in India. • I strengthened the central government & had the largest empire in the world in the 1500’s. • I modernized the army, increased trade & introduced land reform. • I promoted religious tolerance. • I am an ABSOLUTE ruler. • Akbar the Great

38. Who am I? • I am an emperor in the Roman Empire (300’s C.E). • I built Constantinople at the trade crossroads between Europe, Asia & Africa. • I granted freedom of worship to Christians. • Emperor Constantine

39. Who am I? I am a German Monk who was angry at the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church. I posted the 95 Theses (complaints) on a church door. I disagree with the practice of selling indulgences. I started the Protestant Reformation. I ended Christian unity. Martin Luther

40. Who am I? • I am the first emperor of China (221 - 206 B.C.E.) Qin Dynasty. • I had the Great Wall of China built to protect China from invading Mongols to the north. • I had a Terracotta Army built to accompany me to the afterworld. • Shi Huangdi

41. Who am I? • I was the French king in 1789. • My wife (Marie Antoinette) & I spent too much money and put France into debt. • My last name is Bourbon. • I was executed during the Reign of Terror. • Louis XVI (16)

42. Who am I? • I am an Enlightened thinker who believed that government should be divided into 3 branches. • Executive, Judicial & Legislative. • Checks & Balances so no one branch of government can become too powerful. • Montesquieu

43. Who am I? • I was the Russian czar in the 1600’s. • I westernized Russia with the ways of Europe. • Men had to shave their beards or pay a beard tax. • I built a city in my honor on a swamp. • I claimed a port on the Baltic Sea. • Peter the Great

44. Who am I? • I led the Bolsheviks (majority) party in the Russian Revolution. • I had the Romanov family executed. • I founded the U.S.S.R. • My New Economic Policy (N.E.P.) helped the Soviet Union take “baby steps” to communism. • VI Lenin

45. Who am I? • I am Babylon’s powerful ruler that conquered much of the Mesopotamia. • I am credited for the first major collection of laws in history. • My code of laws were not equal for the rich and the poor. • “An eye for an eye”. • King Hammurabi

46. Who am I? • I am Chandragupta’s grandson in India. • I am called the “Philosopher King”. • I converted to Buddhism & ruled by moral example rather than by violence. • I sent Buddhist missionaries throughout India. • I am tolerant of other religious beliefs. • My rule brought peace & prosperity. • Asoka

47. Who am I? • I am an Athenian statesman (460 – 429 B.C.E.). • Under my rule, Athens developed direct democracy. • Slaves and women were not allowed to vote. • My funeral oration was all about how great democracy is. • Pericles

48. Who am I? • I am a great conqueror from Macedonia. (300’s B.C.E.)‏ • I built an empire that extending from Greece, Egypt, Persia & India. (PIGE)‏ • Through cultural diffusion, the new Hellenistic culture emerged. • Alexander the Great

49. Who am I? • I was the dictator of the Roman Republic in 48 B.C.E. • I instituted reforms like the calendar, land to the poor & gave his soldiers power. • “Veni, Vidi, Vici” – I came, I saw, I conquered. • I was assassinated on March 15, 44 C.E. by members of the Senate. “The Ides of March” • Julius Caesar

50. Who am I? • I was called the “Scourge of God” by Christians in the 400’s C.E. • I was a nomadic warrior who savagely conquered much of Europe. • I helped in the fall of Rome. • Attila the Hun