AP World History Final Exam Review (Part 5): People Flashcards

177274580	Galileo	Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars.
177274581	Johannes Kepler	German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion.
177274582	Isaac Newton	English Scientist, 3 Laws of motion, Mathematics Principal of Natural Philosophy.
177274583	John Locke	English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience.
177274584	Voltaire	French, perhaps greatest Enlightenment thinker. Deist. Mixed glorification and reason with an appeal for better individuals and institutions. Wrote Candide. Believed enlightened despot best form of government.
177274585	Louis XIV	King of France; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles.
177274586	Czar Peter the Great	The second Russian absolutist who made Russia more European and less Asia. Helped develop St. Petersburg into a major center for trade.
177274587	Tokugawa Ieyasu	Vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi; succeeded him as most powerful military figure in Japan; granted title of shogun and established Tokugawa Shogunate; established political unity in Japan.
177274588	Commodore Matthew Perry	Of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa.
177274589	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	A French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good, and be a democracy