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9136867713DENIS DIDEROTchief editor of the Encyclopedia0
9136869794THOMAS HOBBESauthor of Leviathan1
9136871609CRITIQUE OF PURE REASONdescribed by Schopenhauer as "the greatest work in German literature"2
9136878404AUGSBERG CONFESSIONSdocument from the German princes stating their conversion to Lutheranism3
9136960797PETRARCHcredited with inventing the sonnet4
9136964986EDWARD VIonly son of Henry VIII5
9136964987TWOnumber of wives actually beheaded by Henry VIII6
9136967905MARY Ionly Catholic child of Henry VIII7
9136970163ELIZABETH Ithe last Tudor monarch8
9136972105CATHERINE PARRlast, and perhaps, best queen of Henry VIII9
913697441495 THESESthe list of Luther's complaints against the Catholic Church10
9136976501COUNCIL OF TRENTgroup attempting to stem the tide of the Reformation11
9136979505ZWINGLYestablished a short-lived theocracy in Zurich, Switzerland. Protestant12
9136985590JOHN CALVINintroduced the concept of predestination to Christianity13
9136987163CRAMNERgranted an annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon14
9136988998ROUSSEAUbelieved science divorced people from nature15
9136991532VOLTAIREin his writing, often used humor as a weapon16
9136993328DAVID HUMEbelieved all knowledge came from the senses17
9136995162WOLLSTONECRAFTsaid women could contribute to society if afforded equal education18
9136997232MARIE THERESE GEOFFRINhosted many salons19
9137002144HENRY VIIIthe Act of Supremacy made him the head of the Anglican Church20
9137004072JOHN WYCLIFFEfirst to translate the Bible into English21
9137004085JOHN KNOXbrought Presbyterianism to Scotland22
9137007061WANG YANGMINtaught a virtuous life can be attained through introspection23
9137009632ABD AL-WAHHABfought syncretism in Islam24
9137012806GALILEOdiscovered the craters of the moon25
9137015362KEPLERmathematically proved the heliocentric model26
9137020210VESALIUSthe Father of Modern Anatomy27
9137022241LEEUWENHOEKdiscovered single-celled organisms28
9137024555EMILIE DU CHATELETnoted physicist who translated the Principia into French29
9137026594COGITO ERGO SUMDescartes' proof that he that the only thing one can know for sure is one's existence, in the language in which it was written30
9137029132SOCIAL CONTRACTHobbes' idea that the people give certain rights to an absolute ruler in exchange for law and order31
9137032246RENE DESCARTESHe proposed relying more on mathematics and logic than on observation. Cogito Ergo Sum32
9137037336VODOUblended Christian religion in HAITI33
9137061816SIKHISMcombination of Hinduism and Islam34
9137071513SCHOPENHAUERsaid Kant's book was most important book in German history35
9137075702SANTERIAblended Christian religion in CUBA36
9137084503NEWTONLaws of motion, wrote "The Principia"37
9137087335MONTESQUIEUWrote "The Spirit of Laws", advocated 3 branches of government38
9137091052MIRABAIBhakti poet39
9137096658LINNAEUScreated binomial nomenclature40
9137101083LOCKEself-gov., natural rights: life, liberty, property41
9137111660KANTWrote "Critique of Pure Reason", wanted to separate religion and science42
9137118922BACHmusicial composer of Baroque43
9137136669COPERNICUSknown for heliocentric model44
9137140291PTOLEMYgeocentric model45

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