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1
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a book written by Machiavelli about how to rule effectively

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The Prince

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U.S. Conservative president during the 80’s that sparred with Gorbachev

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Reagan

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3
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Florentine Banking Family and Art Patrons

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Medicis

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4
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famous Greek mannerist artist

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El Greco

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most famous Renaissance Ruling woman “first lady of the world”

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Isabelle d’Este

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Commissioned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

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Pope Julius II

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Humanist who wrote a biography about Cicero

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Leonardi Bruni

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written by Pico della Mirandola (studied all schools of philosophy)

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Oration on the Dignity of Man

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earliest Italian Renaissance artist known for his frescoes

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Masaccio

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10
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The Birth of Venus and La Primavera

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Botticelli

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11
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Mona Lisa

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Leonardo da Vinci

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12
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considered himself first and foremost a sculptor

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

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13
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name of the most famous panel on Sistine Chapel ceiling

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Creation of Adam

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Flemish Artist of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride

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Jan Van Eyck

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15
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The most Catholic Monarchs (name both)

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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16
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dynasty that rule the Holy Roman Empire

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Habsburgs

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17
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Czech religious reformer burned at the stake

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Jan Hus

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18
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most influential of all Christian Humanists “Praise of Folly”

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Erasmus

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19
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“as soon as the coin in the coffer rings a soul from purgatory springs”

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Johann Tetzel

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20
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book written by Sir Thomas More

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Utopia

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21
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who protected Luther?

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Frederick the Wise/ Elector of Saxony

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22
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radical who inflamed the peasants “strike while the iron is hot”

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Thomas Müntzer

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23
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Holy Roman Emperor who met with Luther and had issues with France and the pope

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Charles V

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24
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“The Magnificent” leader of the Ottoman Empire

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Suleimann

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25
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author of the “Divine Comedy”

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Dante Alighieri

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26
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Swiss reformer who formed the Anabaptists

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Zwingli

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27
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started the Church of England

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Henry VIII

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28
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set up the Calvinist church in Scotland

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John Knox

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29
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England’s Catholic Queen who executed many Protestants

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Mary I (Bloody Mary)

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30
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Virgin Queen who made England significant again

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Elizabeth I

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31
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defeated the Incas in Peru

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Pizarro

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32
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Married Marie Antoinette

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Louis XVI

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33
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what lawyer turned leader of the French Revolution became a crazy person and ended up going to the guillotine after his failed suicide attempt?

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Robespierre

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34
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Leader of the Congress of Vienna

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Metternich

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35
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On the Origin of Species

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Darwin

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36
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French author and philosopher who fought for freedom of speech and was exiled to England

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Voltaire

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37
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the laws of planetary motion and that planets moved in ellipses

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Kepler

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38
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Romantic artist of Liberty Leading Her People

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Delacroix

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39
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British Cotton manufacturer who believed humans should live in a cooperative environment

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Robert Owen

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40
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British pioneer of Mass Tourism (Paris, Switzerland)

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Thomas Cook

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41
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French scientist who discovered the capabilities of radium

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Marie Curie

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42
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The Starry Messenger

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Galileo

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43
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German Scientist of the theory of relativity

44
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Irrational thinker “god is dead” rejected democracy and universal suffrage

45
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Revolutionary Socialist who advocated violence to ensure socialism (general strike)

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Georges Sorel

46
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Father of psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

47
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“My Struggle” written by Hitler

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Mein Kampf

48
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Conservative prime minister of England (first female)

49
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invented the steam engine and is sometimes considered the father of the Industrial Revolution

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James Watt

50
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Feminist who authored “Vindication of the Rights of Woman”

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Mary Wollstonecraft

51
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Principia

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Sir Isaac Newton

52
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“I think therefore I am”

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Renee Descartes

53
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16th century father of anatomy

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Andreas Vesalius

54
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He was beheaded and Oliver Cromwell took over

55
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Discourse on Method (father of modern rationalism)

56
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law of universal gravitation

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Isaac Newton

57
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Assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Gabriel Princip

58
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Brit who came up with the Scientific Method

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Francis Bacon

59
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood

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William Harvey

60
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French Scientist who fought to keep religion and science united. Wrote “Pensees”

61
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What Napoleon descendent was elected leader of France

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Louis Napoleon or Napoleon III

62
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German leader of the Afrika Korps who was known for being a human Nazi leader that was forced to commit suicide for ignoring Hitler’s orders

63
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Leader of the USSR after Stalin

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English author who wrote “Reflections on the Revolution in France” (conservatism)

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Edmund Burke

65
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One of the two liberators of South America

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Simon Bolivar

66
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Who were the Greeks revolting against in the Greek Revolt

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Ottoman Turks

67
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Russian author of “War and Peace”

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Lev Tolstoy

68
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Prolific Spanish author who developed Cubism

69
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Russian Abstract painter who concentrated on color

70
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Impressionist composer of Claire de Lune

71
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Composer of the Revolutionary “Rite of Spring”

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Stravinksy

72
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Invented the light bulb

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Thomas Edison

73
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invented the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

74
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sent first radio waves across the Atlantic

75
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female entomologist studied life cycles

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Maria Merian

76
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English philosopher of natural rights Life, Liberty, and Property

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John Locke

77
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came up with the idea of the Separation of Powers

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Montesquieu

78
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French Neoclassical artist: Tennis Court Oath, Death of Marat, and Coronation of Napoleon

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Jaques Louis David

79
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Italian philosophe against capital punishment

80
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Founder of the Methodist movement

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John Wesley

81
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Most famous French Mistress (Louis XV)

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Madame Pompedour

82
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most educated and cultured monarch of the 18th century, briefly had Voltaire in his court

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Frederick the Great

83
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Name one of the Enlightened Monarchs

84
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Austrian princess married to Louis XVI

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Marie Antoinette

85
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British radical leader of the suffragette movement

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Emmeline Pankhurst

86
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advocated for a Zionist state “The Jewish State”

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Theodor Herze

87
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Jew accused of selling secrets and was imprisoned but eventually pardoned

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Alfred Dreyfus

88
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British entrepreneur who found gold and diamonds in Africa

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Cecil Rhodes

89
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German leader in WWI

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

90
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The “Butcher of Congo” pretty much one of the worst humans ever

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King Leopold II

91
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Leader of the Bolsheviks that overthrew the Tsar

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Vladimir Lenin

92
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a Siberian peasant who had Alexandra under his spell

93
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Author “On Liberty” that also advocated for women’s rights

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John Stuart Mill

94
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What Russian Tsar reformed education, relaxed censorship and freed political prisoners only to quickly revert back to complete control and censorship

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Tsar Alexander II

95
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Successful leader of the Haitian Revolution

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Toussaint L’Ouverture

96
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Uncertainty principle

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Heisenberg

97
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French socialist who came up with the idea of state run workshops

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Louis Blanc

98
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Painted the Sistine Chapel Ceiling

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

99
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Norther European artist of everyday people, festivals, weddings, etc.

100
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Father of Italian Renaissance Humanism

101
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written by Castiglione on how to be a proper European Aristocrat

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Book of the Courtier

102
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invented the Printing Press

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Johann Gutenberg

103
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painting by Raphael that showed many famous Greeks

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School of Athens

104
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designed by Brunelleschi

105
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did any earlier bronze of David

106
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La Pieta

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

107
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The Last Supper

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Leonardo da Vinci

European History AP (10 decks)

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