Important People- UIL SS 2020 Part 1

General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang, he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong.

• Fu Hao

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Bogd Khan

• Chun Doo Hwan

Born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China, territories as far west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227, prior to conquest of most of Islamic world.

• Mongke

• Kublai Khan

• Chinggis Khan

• Anko

A South Korean dictator from 1980-88, successor of Park Chung Hee; responsible for the Gwangju massacre.

• Syngman Rhee

• Moon Jae in

• Chun Doo Hwan

• Kim Dae Jung

dissolute Buddhist ruler of independent Mongolia, 1911-1924

• Bogd Khan

• Hu Jintao

• King Dangun

• Ogedai

Prime Minister of the Han empire. Very ambitious, manipulative, and wanting to build his own empire; General who ended the Han Dynasty.

• Mencius

• Liu Bang

• Fu Hao

• Cao Cao

Empress of the Manchu Yehenara clan, was a Chinese empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908.

• Empress Koken

• Empress Wu Zetian

• Empress Dowager Cixi

• Empress Wen

(551-479 BCE) A Chinese philosopher known also as Kong Fuzi and created one of the most influential philosophies in Chinese history.

• Mencius

• Sun Tzu

• Confucius

• Sun Yat-sen

Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. 1978-1997

• Hu Jintao

• Xi Xingping

• Jiang Zemin

• Deng Xiaoping

Born Li Yuan. The founder of the Tang Dynasty, he expanded China, controlled Silk Roads, got horses, and increased population. He ruled during China's Golden Age

• Emperor Sun of Tang

• Emperor Wen of Tang

• Emperor Chen of Tang

• Emperor Gaozu of Tang

453-456 CE The twentieth Emperor of Japan. This Emperor killed his brother (the apparent heir) to take the throne. He only reigned for two years, killed aged 56. His nephew Prince Mayowa decapitating him as he lay in a drunken stupor in the lap of his favorite consort.

• Anko

• Bushido

• Hirohito

• Kammu