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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events

People to Know

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SALADIN

EGYPT/SYRIA
​(r.1174-1193
)
  • leader of the Muslims in the Third Crusade
  • captured Jerusalem in 1187 and reconquered most of the crusader outposts for Islam
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MARCO POLO

VENICE
(1254–1324
)
  • Venetian merchant and traveler whose accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade
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KUBLAI KHAN

MONGOL EMPIRE/CHINA (YUAN DYNASTY)
(r.1260–1294
)
  • ​Grandson of Genghis Khan, fifth emperor of the Mongol Empire and founder of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China.
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FERDINAND AND  ISABELLA

NORMANY/ENGLAND
F (r.1479–1516
) I(r.1474–1504)
  • became king and queen of a united Spain after centuries of Islamic domination
  • made Spain a strong Christian nation under the Spanish Inquisition
  • provided funding to overseas exploration, notably Christopher Columbus.
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RICHARD I (THE LIONHEART)

ENGLAND
​(r.1189–1199
)
  • launched the Third Crusade to retake Jerusalem after it fell to Muslim forces in 1187
  • reclaimed Acre, but could not take Jerusalem
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GENGHIS KHAN

MONGOL EMPIRE
(r.1206–1227
)
  • real name is Temujin who united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force as a strategic genius
  • created the largest single land empire in history expanding from the Sea of Japan in Asia to Hungarian Plains in Eastern Europe
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JOAN OF ARC

FRANCE
(1412–1431
)
  • ​​French peasant girl, heroine and military leader who rallied French troops at the Siege of Orleans during the Hundred Years War to resist the English
  • captured and executed by the English for witchcraft
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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events