Influential People Flashcards by Kayla Smith | Brainscape

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Francis Bacon

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Scientific Method

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Galileo

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Proved Copernicus’s theory.

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Isaac Newton

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Newton’s Law, gravity.

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Elizabeth

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Death

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James I

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Kings James Bible

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Matthew Hopkins

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Witch-hunter general

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Charles I

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taxes and exploitation

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Oliver Cromwell

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Military Dictator

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Charles II

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Merry Monarch. Secret Catholic

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James II

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Openly catholic, wars

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William and Mary

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Signed the Bill of Rights

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John Locke

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Empiricism

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Louis XIV

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Sun King. Versailles. Money

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Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour

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Held salons and protected free-thinkers

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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

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Lots

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Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousseau

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Ideas about government: absolute, election, agreement

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Count Mirabeau

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Leader of the National Assembly

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Lafayette

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Leader of the National Guard, war hero

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Marat, Danton, Robespierre

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Radical Leaders

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Napoleon

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Lots

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Jethro Tull and Lord Townshed

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Seed Drill and improved soil.

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John Kay

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Flying Shuttle

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James Hargreaves

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Spinning Jenny

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Samuel du Champlain

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French explorer