People - Process
The following is a list of people throughout history who have made either a positive or negative impact in the world.
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Ancient & Classical Periods
- Hammurabi - Mesopotamia (Babylon)
- Qin Shihuandi - China
- Socrates - Greece
- Plato - Greece
- Aristotle - Greece
- Pericles - Greece
- Alexander the Great - Greece
- Julius Caesar - Rome
- Augustus - Rome
- Hadrian - Rome
- Diocletian - Rome
- Constantine the Great - Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire
Dark & Middle Ages
- Saint Augustine - Algeria/Northern Africa
- Charlemagne - France
- King John I - England
- Genghis Khan - Mongol
- Kublai Khan - Mongol China
- Mansa Musa - Mali/Western Africa
- Pope Urban II - Roman Catholic
Renaissance, Age of Exploration, Scientific Revolution
- Christopher Columbus - Spain/Italy
- Copernicus - Poland
- Cortez - Spain
- Vasco Da Gama - Portuguese
- Leonardo Da Vinci - Italy
- Elizabeth I - England
- Galileo - Italy
- Gutenberg - German
- Henry VIII - England
- Machiavelli - Italy
- Magellan - Portuguese
- Ibn Battuta - Morocco/North Africa
- Marco Polo - Italy
- Michelangelo - Italy
- Pizarro - Spain
- Zheng He - China
The Enlightenment
- Montesquieu -France
- Thomas Hobbes - England
- John Locke - England
- Rousseau - France
- Adam Smith - Scotland/Britain
- Voltaire - France
Absolutism, Revolutions & Nationalism Movements
- Napoleon Bonaparte - France
- Robespierre - France
- Fidel Castro - Cuba
- Cavour - Italy
- Garibaldi - Italy
- Czar Nicholas II- Russia
- Louis XIV (14th) - France
- Louis XVI (16th) - France
- Otto Von Bismark Prussia/Germany
Imperialism & Industrial Revolution
- James Watt- England
- Emperor Meiji - Japan
- Karl Marx - German
Independence Movements
- Simon Bolivar - Latin & South America
- San Martin - South America
- Gandhi - India
- Jomo Kenyatta - Kenya
- Toussaint L'Ouverture - Haiti
- Kemal Attaturk - Turkey
Human Rights Movements
- Nelson Mandela - South Africa
- Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma/Myanmar
- Desmond Tutu - South Africa
- Anwar Sadat - Egypt
- Menachem Begin - Israel
Religion & Belief Systems
- Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) - India
- John Calvin - Switerland
- Confucius - China
- Lao Tze - China
- Martin Luther - German
- Mohammed - Middle East
Victorian Age
- Charles Darwin- Great Britain
- Herbert Spencer - Great Britain
- Queen Victoria - Great Britain
World Wars
- Winston Churchill - Great Britain
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand - Austria
- Hitler - Germany
- Musolini - Italy
- Josef Stalin - Soviet Union
The World Since 1945
- Gorbachev - Soviet Union
- Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam
- Saddam Hussein - Iraq
- Jomo Kenyatta - Kenya
- Vladmir Lenin - Russia/Soviet Union
- Mao Zedong - China
- Slobodan Milosevic - Serbia
- Pol Pot - Cambodia
- Lech Walesa - Poland
- Boris Yeltsin - Russia
- Nikita Krushchev - Soviet Union
- Gamal Abdel Nasser - Egypt
