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• Emilio Aguinaldo: Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain in

1895-1898. He proclaimed the Philippines independent in 1899, but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the US army in 1901.

• Akbar I: Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire (r. 1556-1605). He expanded

the empire and pursued a policy of concilation with Hindus.

3. Akhenaten: Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 BCE). He built a new capital at

Amarna, fostered a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.

4. Alexander the Great: King of Macedonia in northern Greece, Between 334 and

323 BCE, he conquered the Persian Empire, reached the Indus Valley, founded many Greek-style cities, and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.

• Salvador Allende: Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and

overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack.

6. Richard Arkwright: English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealth-

iest and most successful textile manufacturer of the early Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame.

7. Ashoka: Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 BCE). He con-

verted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars, the earliest surviving Indian writing.

8. Atahualpa: Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish.

• Octavian: Founder of the Roman Principate. After defeating all rivals between 31

BCE and 14 CE, he laid the groundwork for several centuries of stability and prosperity in the Roman Empire. Also called Augustus.

• Emiliano Zapata: Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolu- 1 / 2

tion. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time, he was ultimately defeated and assassinated.

11. Zheng He: An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor

Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships though the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.

• Faisal I: Arab prince, leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made

him king of Iraq in 1921, and he reigned under British protection until 1933.

• Benjamin Franklin: American intellectual, inventor, and politician. He helped

negotiate French support for the American Revolution.

• Thomas Edison: American inventor best known for inventing the electric light-

bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.

15. Albert Einstein: German physicist who developed the theory of relativity.

16. Yamagata Aritomo: One of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration.

• Yongle: He sponsored the building of the Forbidden City, a huge encyclopedia

project, the expeditions of Zheng He, and the reopening of China's borders to trade and travel.

• Yuan Shikai: Chinese general and first president of the Chinese Republic (1912-

1916). He stood in the way of Sun Yat-sen's movement.

• Ibn Battuta: Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his

time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.

• Hipolito Irigoyen: Argentine politician, president of Argentina from 1916-1922

and 1928-1930. The first president elected by universal male suffrage, he began his presidency as a reformer, but later became conservative.

21. Napoleon Bonaparte: Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became em-

peror of the French in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicatd in 1914.

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