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52781213Johannes Gutenburgmovable type printing press
52781214john harrisonchronemeter
52781215prince henry the navigatorPortuguese navigator who started a navigation school
52781216bartholomeu diazdiscovers cape of good hope, but does not continue to india
52781217vasco de gamagoes to india around the cape of good hope
52781218christopher columbusdiscovers the new world but thinks he is in India
52781219Amerigo VespucciAmerica is named after this man
52781220Hernan Cortesconquers aztecs at tenochtilan
52781221ferdinand magellanfirst to circumnavigate the world
52781222francisco pizarroconquers incas for spain
52781223desidarius erasmuswrote The Praise of Folly
52781224Thomas Morewrote Utopia
52781225Johan Tetzelsold indulgences
52781226Martin Lutherwrote 95 theses; banished by the church through the Diet of Worms; "unwitting revolutionary"
52781227Huldrych Zwinglireformist from Switzerland
52781228John CalvinSwiss reformist who believed in pre-destination
52781229King Henry VIIIStarts the Anglican Church
52781230Nicolaus CopernicusHeliocentric Model
52781231Tycho Brahedefended Copernicus' model secretly
52781232Johannes KeplerBrahe's assistant
52781233Galileo Galileiimproves on the telescope; proves the heliocentric model; forced to denounce his finding
52781234Francis Baconscientific method
52781235rene descartes"I think therefore I am"
52781236Isaac Newton3 laws of motion; invented calculus
52781237Queen Isabellaunite catholic lands in spain
52781238Henry IVcreated Edict of Nantes
52781239Louis XIIItakes the throne when he was 8 years old
52781240George IIIsalutary neglect in American colonies
52781241Cardinal Richelieutook power of france for Louis XIII
52781242Louis XIVabsolutist ruler of France who builds Versailles
52781243Thomas Hobbeswrote Leviathan; "the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"
52781244John Lockewrote The Two Treatises of Government
52781245Denis Diderotcompiled The Encyclopedia
52781246Baron de Montesquieuwrote The Spirit of Laws
52781247Voltaire"I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
52781248Jean-Jacques Rousseauwrote The Social Contract
52781249Adam Smithwrote The Wealth of Nations
52781250Olympe de GougesDeclaration of Women
52781251Marie Antoinette"Let them eat cake"
52781252Maximillien RobespierreReign of Terror
52781253Napoleon Bonapartetakes power of France through a coup d'etat; starts revolution
52781254Klemens von Metternichhad most influence in the Congress of Vienna; Prussian
52781255Toussaint L'Overtureled slave revolt in Haiti
52781256Agustin de Iturbidoverthrows spanish in Mexico
52781257Simon Bolivar"The Liberator"
52781258Jose de San Martinliberates Argentina, Chile, and Peru
52781259Charles Xabsolute ruler of France; overthrown through revolution
52781260Louis Philippe"The Citizen King"
52781261Louis Kossuthled slave revolt in Hungary
52781262Plato"Necessity is the mother of all invention"
52781263Charles Townshendpopularized the four-field crop rotation system
52781264Jethro Tullseed drill
52781265Eli Whitneycotton gin
52781266Cyrus McCormickMcCormick Reaper
52781267John Deeresteel plow
52781268Joseph Gliddenbarbed wire
52781269Von Thunenagricultural model based on rent-cost in relation to distance from the market
52781270Norman Borlaug"Father of Green Revolution"
52781271James Wattsteam governer
52781272Henry BessemerBessemer Process to remove impurities from iron
52781273Robert Fultonsteamboat
52781274George Stephensenlocomotive
52781275Samuel Morsetelegraph
52781276Adam Smithlaw of supply and demand
52781277Thomas Malthusfood production increases arithmetically, population increases geometrically
52781278David RicardoIron Law of wages: "as population grows, wages remain low"
52781279Jeremy Bentham"Greatest good for greatest number of people"
52781280John Stuart Mill"All human beings have an equal need of a voice"
52781281Count Henri de Saint-Simon"industrialization and science will bring a new age"
52781282Robert Owenpushed for labor reforms; started model village of New Lanark
52781283Karl Marxwrote The Communist Manifesto
52781284Allesandro Voltabattery
52781285Alexander Graham Belltelephone
52781286Thomas Edisonlight bulb; phonograph; kinetiscope
52781287guglielmo marconiradio
52781288wilbur and orville wrightpowered flight
52781289henry fordautomobile
52781290Louis PasteurGerm Theory; anthrax and rabies vaccine
52781291Joseph Listerantiseptics
52781292Edward Jennersmallpox vaccine
52781293Charles Darwinnatural selection
52781294Herbert Spencer"Survival of the fittest"
52781295Gregor Mendelstudied inheritance of traits
52781296Francis Galtonfather of Eugenics
52781297Ester Boseruprate of food production will speed up to meet rising population
52781298Gideon Sjoberg"societies should be viewed by their accomplishments"
52781299Ernest Burgessconcentric zone model
52781300Homer Hoytsector model
52781301Chauncy Harrismultiple nuclei model
52781302edward ullmanhelped chauncy harris with the multiple nuclei model
52781303Otto von BismarckChancellor; Realpolitik; Kulturkampf; "Blood and Iron"
52781304Kaiser William IIcalled Otto von Bismarck the Iron Chancellor
52781305Count Cavourprime minister of Sardinia; evicted Austria from Italy
52781306Giuseppe Garibaldileader of the Red Shirts; liberates southern Italy
52781307Victor Emmanuel IIelected leader of Italy
52781308Alexander IIfreed the Serfs with the Emancipation Edict
52781309Nicholas IIOctober Manifesto
52781310Rutyard Kipling"White man's burden"
52781311Cecil RhodesBritish man who started European imperialism in Africa
52781312King Leopold IIclaimed the Congo for Belgium
52781313Menelik IIEthipian freedom fighter
52781314Tokugawa Ieyasunames himself shogun of japan; started the Great Peace; outlawed Christianity
52781315Commodore Matthew PerryAmerican naval officer who convinced Japan to end isolation
52781316Emperor Meijiwesternizes Japan
52781317Alfred WeberLeast Cost Theory
52781318Harold HottelingHotteling Beach Model
52781319August LoschZone of Profitability
52781320UllmanUllman's conceptual frame
52781321Archduke FerdinandAustrian heir; assassinated at Sarajevo
52781322Gavrilo Principassassinates Archduke Ferdinand
52781323Rasputinconfided with Czarina Alexandra before February Revolution
52781324V.I. LeninLed Bolsheviks in October Revolution
52781325Woodrow WilsonAmerican president who declared war on the central powers
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