310150876 | Copernicus | Earth is not center of universe | 0 | |
310150877 | Galileo | Improved telescope + planets revolve around sun | 1 | |
310150878 | Newton | Three laws of motion + objects on Earth and celestial bodies governed by same laws | 2 | |
310150879 | Kepler | Three laws of planetary motion | 3 | |
310150880 | Montesquieu | Separation of powers | 4 | |
310150881 | Voltaire | Freedom of rights (religion, expression, ect.) | 5 | |
310150882 | Locke | Everyone born with universal rights; government should protect those rights; government can punish those who violates rights | 6 | |
310150883 | Hobbes | Government should represent the people + people can do whatever if it's not specifically blocked by the law | 7 | |
310150884 | Rousseau | "The Social Contract" -- "general will" sparks equality | 8 | |
310150885 | Wollstonecraft | Women's rights | 9 | |
310150886 | Prince Henry the Navigator | Early European trade and maritime exploration w/ other continents | 10 | |
310150887 | Vasco de Gama | Portuguese explorer, first to sail directly from Europe --> India | 11 | |
310150888 | Columbus | Voyages across Atlantic that raised awareness of Americas + colonized New World | 12 | |
310150889 | Ferdinand and Isabella | United Castile and Aragon, created Spain | 13 | |
310150890 | Vespucci | Went to New World and realized it was not Asia | 14 | |
310150891 | Ponce de Leon | European exploration to Florida | 15 | |
310150892 | Vasco de Balboa | First European to reach Pacific Ocean from the New World | 16 | |
310150893 | Magellan | First to sail Atlantic --> Pacific + first to cross Pacific. Voyage was first to circumnavigate Earth, but Magellan himself did not make it | 17 | |
310150894 | Sir Francis Drake | Second circumnavigation of world | 18 | |
310150895 | John Cabot | First European encounter w/ North America after Vikings | 19 | |
310150896 | Henry Hudson | Explored New York (trying to get to China), named Hudson River, Dutch colonization there | 20 | |
310150897 | Cortes | Conquered Aztecs | 21 | |
310150898 | Montezuma | Reigned during fall of Aztecs | 22 | |
310150899 | Pizzaro | First Spanish settlement in Peru (conquered Incas) | 23 | |
312351751 | Luther | Started Protestant Reformation (Lutheranism) | 24 | |
312351752 | Calvin | Started Calvinism (all fates predetermined) | 25 | |
312351753 | Henry VIII | Separated from Catholic Church (created Church of England) | 26 | |
312351754 | Edward VI | First English monarch raised as a Protestant | 27 | |
312351755 | Mary I | Burned Protestants + succeeded Edward VI + Catholic rule | 28 | |
312351756 | Elizabeth I | Succeeded Mary I, "Virgin Queen" + blended Protestants and Catholics | 29 | |
312351757 | Louis XIV | "Sun King" -- King of France and came up with the "divine right of kings" | 30 | |
312351758 | James I | King James Bible + ruled both Scotland and England | 31 | |
312351759 | Charles I | Made saint by Church of England | 32 | |
312351760 | Cromwell | Overthrew English monarchy, temp. turned England into republican Commonwealth | 33 | |
312351761 | William and Mary | Ended Glorious Revolution, signed English Bill of Rights (better standing between monarchs and Parliament) | 34 | |
312351762 | Bartolome de las Casas | One of the first New World settlers; opposed treatment of Natives | 35 |
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