8807107915 | Adam Smith | Scottish economist, philosopher, and author formulated economic laws | 0 | |
8807114331 | Anabaptists | baptized adults only; denied authority of local governments | 1 | |
8807120751 | Francis Bacon | Helped develop the scientific method | 2 | |
8807134098 | Cesare Beccaria | Italian criminologist, philosopher, and politician | 3 | |
8807140556 | Robert Boyle | Established chemistry as a pure science | 4 | |
8807167024 | John Calvin | Established Calvinism | 5 | |
8807170619 | Nicholas Copernicus | Polish astronomer at the forefront of scientific revolution | 6 | |
8807180998 | Rene Descartes | Invented analytic geometry | 7 | |
8807184901 | Denis Diderot | Co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the encyclopedia | 8 | |
8807202554 | Galileo Galilie | Improved the telescope and created the pendulum clock | 9 | |
8807217524 | Guru Nanak | Founded Sikhism which blended Islam and Hinduism | 10 | |
8807416148 | William Harvey | concluded about blood circulation | 11 | |
8807422052 | Henry VIII | King from 1509-1547, had 6 wives | 12 | |
8807433340 | Thomas Hobbes | Wrote the Leviathan; thought absolute monarchy was the best form of government | 13 | |
8807443444 | Johannes Kepler | Used math to show planets revolved around the sun (demonstrated elliptical orbits of the planets) | 14 | |
8807456734 | John Locke | Thought people are naturally reasonable and moral. People have natural rights. Articulated ideas of constitutional government | 15 | |
8807467371 | Marquis de Condorcet | 16 | ||
8807474578 | Martin Luther | Wrote 95 theses and started protestant reformation | 17 | |
8807487222 | Mirabai | a 16th century Hindu mystic poet and Bhakti saint | 18 | |
8807501714 | Montesquieu | Promoted democracy and separation of powers | 19 | |
8807514487 | Muhammad Ibn Saud | Founder of the first Saudi state and Saudi dynasty | 20 | |
8807522365 | Isaac Newton | developed laws of gravity the apogee of the scientific revolution | 21 | |
8807524991 | Society of Jesus | Scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic church. Committed to renewal and expansion | 22 | |
8807534752 | Andreas Vesalius | Flemish anatomist, physician and author of a book on human anatomy | 23 | |
8807552958 | Voltaire | Wrote Candide, challenged the idea that all is for the best in the best of all worlds Wrote Treatise on Toleration, attacking the narrow particularism of organized religion | 24 | |
8807581465 | Wang Yangming | Scholar that argued that truth and moral knowledge are innate in humans Said anyone can achieve a virtuous life by introspection | 25 | |
8807618244 | Mary Wolstonecraft | English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights | 26 | |
8807626548 | Jean-Jaques Rosseau | thought man was born free | 27 | |
8807631206 | Ptolemy | Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek anthology | 28 | |
8838350104 | Sigmund Freud | had the theories that everyone has a primal impulse towards sexuality and aggression | 29 |
Chapter 15 Names/Terms (AP World History) Flashcards
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