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9665186974Martin Luther(1483-1546)German Reformation Justification by faith alone Attack indulgences (paying for mortal sins). 1517, posting of 95 thesis. Diet of Worms(1521) - met with HRE Charles V, didnt go that well Did not support peasant social revolution.0
9665186975Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547)English "Defender of the Faith" Pope Leo X allowed his divorce Made himself head of the Church of England Reformation. Had many wives Act of Supremacy created Church of England.1
9665186976John Calvin (1509-1564)French Book: The Institutes of Christian Religion Reformation Calvanism2
9665186977John Locke (1632-1704)English philosopher Tabula Rasa: the idea that people are born with no prior knowledge Thought people had the right to Life, Liberty, and Property Government's purpose was to protect these rights If the govt. wasn't working for the people then the people could overthrow it and make a new government3
9665186978Isaac Newton (1642-1727)English Mathematician and physicist Book: Principia (1687) Laws of Motion Laws of Gravity4
9665186979Napoleon (1769-1821)French general and emperor Rose through the ranks of army after the French Revolution Crowned himself emperor (1804) Lost two-thirds of his army in a disastrous invasion of Russia His final loss to Britain and Prussia:Battle of Waterloo He was exiled to the island of St. Helena5
9665186980Louis XIV (r.1643-1715)Sun King Divine Right Versailles used to manipulate nobles. Mercantilism Politique Revoked Edict of Nantes War of Spanish Succession. Absolutism.6
9665186981Copernicus & GalileoScientific Revolution. 1473-1543 Heliocentric Universe. On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres. (1564-1642, Telescope, Math)7
9665186982Elizabeth I(1558-1603) Politique. 39 articles made moderate protestentism official religion of england. Executed Mary queen of scots. Failed Spainish Armada.8
9665186983Peter the Great(1682-1725) Romanov Dynasty. Westernization. Beginning in 1689 Peter gives Russia a crash course in Western ways. He sent Russians to the West to study, brought foreigners into Russia. Taming Streltsy and Boyars. Developed a navy. Founded St. Petersburg. Politique.9
9665186984Adam Smith(1723-1790) Enlightenment. Economist. Capitaism. The Wealth of Nations (1776). Selfish Economic Interests. Laissez- Faire - limited role of government in economic life. Invisible Hand.10
9665186985Metternich..., Austrian foreign minister who basically controlled the Congress of Vienna. Wanted to promote peace, conservatism, and the repression of liberal nationalism throughout Europe.11
9665186986Marx..., developed "scientific socialism", said that productive forces and economic relationships together made up the foundation of society. therefore, classes would conflict until the 'golden age' of communism took over12
9665186987DarwinEnglish natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)13
9665186988BismarkThe Prussian minister-president who came from a Junker family. He was the architect of the unification of Germany. He wanted to loosen Hapsburg grip on German affairs and establish Prussia as a respectable and dominant power.14
9665186989Leninfounded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. He then ruled the country until his death in 1924.15
9665186990FreudPsychologist who developed psychoanalysis, a method of probing the unconscious mind, frequently by analyzing dreams. He believed that humans were driven by unconscious pleasure-seeking forces.16
9665186991Medici FamilyWealthiest Florentine Family. Financed much of the Renaissance. Powerful Italinan family. Most famous member: Catherine de Medici17
9665186992Petrarchone of the earliest and most influential humanists. "father of Renaissance humanism" great poet18
9665186993MachiavelliWrote "The Prince", a book that recommended harsh and arbitrary rule for princes19
9665186994DonatelloFlorentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures (1386-1466)20
9665186995Leonardo da VinciItalian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect21
9665186996Michelangelofamous painter and sculptor who painted the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel in the Vatican and statue of David22
9665186997RaphaelItalian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520)23
9665186998BotticelliItalian painter of mythological and religious paintings (1444-1510)24
9665186999ErasmusRenaissance. Most famous of Northern Humanists. Religious reformer. Prince of Humanists25
9665187000Thomas MoreRenaissance. Most famouus English Humanists. Wrote Utopia critizing contemporary society.26
9665187001CervantesRenaissance. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' (1547-1616)27
9665187002Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnReligious Wars. Influential Dutch artist (1606-1669)28
9665187003Van EyckNorthern Renaissance. Artist. Arnolfini Wedding29
9665187004Mary I queen of englandReligious wars. Undid alot of her brothers pro-protestent acts. Was extremly violent against protestents30
9665187005Ignatius LoyolaFounded the Society of Jesus (jesuits), resisted the spread of Protestantism, Counter Reformation31
9665187006Prince Henry the NavigatorAge of Discovery. Portugese prince who sponsered portuguese exploration of African coast32
9665187007Vasco de GamaAge of Discovery. Portuguese explorer and the first person to navigate a route to the East and India33
9665187008Cortez and PizarroAge of Discovery. Spanish Conquistadors who conquered the Aztec and Incans34
9665187009Philip IIKing of Spain and Portugal and husband of Mary I35
9665187010James IPaths to Constitutionalism succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings and by raising taxes without permission. Problems with puritans (1566-1625)36
9665187011Charles I(1625-1649) Continued to raise taxes and alienate parliment and have Catholic sympathies. Didnt call parliment for a while, short parliement then long parliment then english civl war.37
9665187012Oliver CromwellEnglish general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War. established Puratin Republic38
9665187013Charles IIReset status quo. Had catholic sympathies. Tried to work with parliement39
9665187014James II..., English king from 1685-1688. He made enemies with Parliment when he displayrd his Catholic faith, appointed Catholics to offices within the government, and had a Catholic son who would be heir to the throne. He was depsoed in 168840
9665187015William and Mary..., These people were the king and queen of England after the Glorious Revolution that recognized the supremacy of the English Parliament41
9665187016Catherine de Mediciwife of Henry II, influenced her sons after the end of there father's rein. She placed an alliance with the ultra-Catholics (the militant Catholics), which was led by the second most powerful family in France, The Guise Family. She permitted the Guise Family their own independent army,which they would use to take out the other religions residing within the French Borders. This led to the civil wars in France and also the St. Bartholome's Day Massacre.42
9665187017Henry IV (of Navarre)French Bourbon king. A POLITIQUE. Converted from Calvinism to Catholicism to support his country. ("Paris is worth a Mass"). Proclaimed the EDICT OF NANTES. LAID FOUNDATION FOR FRANCE TO BECOME THE STRONGEST EUROPEAN POWER IN THE 17TH CENTURY43
9665187018Cardinal RichelieuThis was the man who influenced the power of King Louis XIII the most and tried to make France an absolute monarchy44
9665187019Jean-Baptiste ColbertAn economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Brought prosperity to France.45
9665187020Fredrick II (the Great)King of Prussia, fought the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War against Maria Theresa46
9665187021Benito MussoliniFascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy. (p. 786)47
9665187022Adolf HitlerThis dictator was the leader of the Nazi Party. He believed that strong leadership was required to save Germanic society, which was at risk due to Jewish, socialist, democratic, and liberal forces.48
9665187023Leon TrotskyRussian revolutionary intellectual and close adviser to Lenin. A leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), he was later expelled from the Communist Party (1927) and banished (1929) for his opposition to the authoritarianism of Stalin49
9665187024StalinRussian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition50
9665187025Winston Churchhill(1874-1965) Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II.51
9665187026Catherine the GreatAn enlightened despot who ruled over Russia. She is responsible for many positive changes in Russia, as well as securing the country a warm water port.52
9665187027William of OrangeAge of Religious wars. Led calvinist movement in the Netherlands. Helped unite Netherlands against the Spanish in hope for independence (Pacification of Ghent).53
9665187028BraheHe believed that other planets revolved around the Sun, but that the Sun and Moon revolved around the Earth.54
9665187029KeplerGerman astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630)55
9665187030HarveyCirculation of blood56
9665187031PascalFrench mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist57
9665187032Thomas Hobbeswrote "Leviathan" and believed people were naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish; he also believed only a powerful governemnt could keep an orderly society58
9665187033Francis Bacon(1561-1626) English politician, writer. Formalized the empirical method. Novum Organum. Inductive reasoning.59
9665187034Descartes"I Think, Therefore I am", (1596-1650) French philosopher, discovered analytical geometry. Saw Algebra and Geometry have a direct relationship. Reduced everything to spiritual or physical.60
9665187035Montesquieu(1689-1755) wrote 'Spirit of the Laws', said that no single set of political laws was applicable to all - depended on relationship and variables, supported division of government61
9665187036VoltaireFrench writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)62
9665187037Louis XVI- King of France (1774-1792). In 1789 he summoned the Estates-General, but he did not grant the reforms that were demanded and revolution followed. Louis and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were executed in 1793.63
9665187038Marie AntoninetteAustrian royal who becomes Queen of France and killed during the Reign of Terror64
9665187039Robespierreleader of the Committee of Public Safety who intiated the Reign of Terror65
9665187040Wordsworth/Coleridge/Byron/Shelly/NeatsEnglish Romatic Writers66
9665187041Thomas Malthusan English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)67
9665187042David RicardoPrinciples of Political Economy (1817); "iron law of wages": rise of population means rise of amount of workers, which cause wages to fall below the subsistence level, resulting in misery and starvation. wages should not be raised68
9665187043GaribaldiUnited southern italy. Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882)69
9665187044MazziniGiuseppe Mazzini was the first person that tried to unify all of Italy.His brand of democratic republicanism seemed too radical for the people. Austria smashed Mazzini's republicanism in 1848.70
9665187045Count Cavorprime minister of sardinia-piedmont, provoked austria into a war which led to the reunification of the northern italian states. United Italy71
9665187046Alexander II(r. 1855-1881) Emperor of Russia; advocated moderate reforms for Russia; emancipated the serfs; he was assassinated.72
9665187047Captain DreyfusThis french Jewish captain was falsely accused for spying for the Germans73
9665187048William GladstoneOne of Britain's great liberal leaders, he favored expanding political rights for British men. He served several times during the mid to late 1800s.74
9665187049Benjamin Disraelileading conservative political figure in Britain in the second half of the 19th century; took initiative of granting vote to working-class males in 1867;75
9665187050Albert Einsteinphysicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity76
9665187051Hebert SpencerSocial Darwinism, believed that if society was left alone it could correct it's own problems; it tends naturally toward health and ability77
9665187052Archduke Francis Ferdinandheir to the throne of Austria Hungary; assassinated .; sparked WWI78
9665187053Tsar Nicholas IILast Tsar of Russia and then end of the Romanov line. Was executed along with the rest of his family under the order of Lenin. In WWI ordered a partial mobilization against Austria-Hungary, forcing a chain reaction of mobilization.79
9665187054RousseauFrench philosopher from 1712-1778 who believed that people are naturally good, but are corrupted by society. "Social Contract"80
9665187055Kaiser Wilhelm (William)Also known as Wilhelm II; he was the first king or kaiser of unified Germany.81
9665187056Christine de Pisan(1363-1434) Renassance Wrote the Renaissance's woman's survival manual ('The City of Ladies,' 1405), possibly Europe's first feminist.82
9665187057Mikhail GorbachevHead of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Responsible for collapse of SU. Glasnot, Economic Perestroika, Army Perestroika. Did not put down 1989 revolutions83
9665187058Olympe de GougesA proponent of democracy, she demanded the same rights for French women that French men were demanding for themselves. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791),84
9665187059Emmeline PankhurstLeader of the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union), which fought for women's suffrage in Britain.85
9665187060Alexandra KollontaiRussian revolutionary and diplomat, commissar for social welfare in 1918 and head of the women's section of the Communist Party86
9665187061Simone de BeauvoirFrench feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986) Author of Second Sex87

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