Global 10 Review: Historical Figures

U.S. Commodore who arrived in Japan signaling the Meiji Restoration to begin...

Renaissance writer who believed "the ends justifies the means.."

Chinese philosopher who believed in "filial piety" and respect for authority...

The last Russian czar - overthrown by Lenin and killed...

Soviet leader who moved away from communism with "glasnost" and "perestroika."

Communist who promised Russian peasants "peace, bread and land..."

Obtained a warm-water port for Russia

Monk who believed in salvation by faith alone and started the Reformation.

Chinese leader who moved away from Communism yet ordered the massacre at Tiananmen Square...

Created an early code of laws - an "eye for an eye" justice (except for slaves).

Hellenistic culture was created from his empire...

The Sun King, absolute, divine right monarch of France...

Built the "Window on the West" in Russia...

Islamic Fundamentalist who led revolution in Iran. Hatred for modernization, freedom, the west

Spanish conquistador who helped destroy the Aztecs of latin America

A "Renaissance Man" who painted the Mona Lisa...

Wrote the Declaration of Independence using the Enlightenment ideas of Locke...

After Gorbachev resigned, he was the first democratically elected president of Russia.

Revolutionary who fought for independence for Latin America...

Protestant who believed in "pre-destination..."

Made England protestant after having his annulment denied by the Pope...

Unified Germany using nationalism and "blood and iron..."

Started the "Reign of Terror" during the French Revolution...

British Prime Minister who ended appeasement and gave the "iron curtain" speech in 1946...

Communist dictator of Cambodia who created the "killing fields..."

Chinese communist: "The Great Leap Forward," the "Cultural Revolution..."

The "Father of Capitalism" and free enterprise economics.

Prophet of the Islamic Faith, representative of Allah on Earth...

Modernized and westernized Turkey...

Developed the heliocentric theory of the universe later proven by Galileo...

Communist leader of Cuba until 2008...