People

Groups

100

They were "holy" warriors who left Europe to fight for the Holy Land. They didn't win, but they did get their salt.

crusaders

200

Although these people made up 90% of feudal society, they had no land and therefore had no power.

peasants

300

This warrior class from Japan followed the way of the warrior--the Bushido Code.

Samurai

400

These 16th and 17th century folks went against the biggest team in town--the Catholic Church.

Protestants

500

This group of French Enlightenment thinkers developed the ideas of equality of the social classes and the nation-state.

Philosophes

Rulers

100

This fascist leader was responsible for the Holocaust, and arguably World War II.

Hitler

200

This dramatic Soviet leader said that he would modernize the Soviet Union's agriculture and industry through his Five-Year Plans.

Stalin

300

This leader of China was largely known for his socio-political programs like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

Mao Zedong

400

This great leader of the African nation of Mali spread Islam to his people after he traveled to Mecca.

Mansa Musa

500

This British queen was the longest ruling monarch in history. She extended England's rule around the world--the "sun never set" on her 19th century empire.

Victoria

Thinkers

100

This former Indian prince left a life of luxury to pursue enlightenment. He said that "all desire causes suffering." He developed the Eightfold Path and today there is a belief system named after him.

Who was Gautama Buddha?

200

Natural rights! The rights that everybody has from birth.

John Locke

300

This Chinese philosopher talked about the Five Noble Truths and emphasized the importance of giving respect to elders and those in authority.

Confucius

400

This person viewed history as a "struggle between social classes." He urged all workers to organize and overthrow the landowners and factory owners. He is thought of as the "father of communism."

Karl Marx

500

This Enlightenment thinker wrote about free markets and is thought of as the "father of capitalism."

Adam Smith

Revolutionaries

100

This Indian revolutionary practiced non-violence, like his salt march protests against British imperialism.

Gandhi

200

This Bolshevik leader came to power following the disasters of World War I and the downfall of the Russian government, promising "Peace, land and bread."

Lenin

300

This former slave led a revolt in Haiti, creating the first post-colonial independent nation in 1803.

L'Ouverture

400

Along with Jose de San Martin, this South American revolutionary worked to eliminate Spanish influence in present day Columbia, Venezuela and Bolivia.

Simon Bolivar

500

This Chinese leader tried to establish democracy in China. Later, he was banished by Mao Zedong when the Nationalists lost to the Communists in a civil war.

Chiang Kai-shek.

Scientists

100

This German inventor created the printing press, which allowed for books to be mass produced, improving literacy rates throughout the world.

Gutenberg

200

For centuries people thought that the sun went around the Earth, until this Polish astronomer correctly developed his heliocentric model.

Copernicus

300

This former patent clerk developed technology necessary to create an atomic bomb. As a result, the control and spread of nuclear weapons is still an issue today.

Einstein

400

This Italian physicist went before the Catholic Inquisition to defend his ideas of a sun-centered universe.

Galileo

500

This English scientist is credited with developing the "scientific method," which helped organize scientific inquiry and research.

Sir Francis Bacon