Chapter 15 Names/Terms (AP World History) Flashcards

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