People Flashcards
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Most famous American Banker - Dutch
John Adams
Sought Dutch loans for American Revolution
Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night - not too happy person
Baruch Spinoza
Natural philosopher - advocated nationalism in Jewish religions; doctrine at time - adopted Christian theologians after
Robert Turgot
Tried to revise nobility
Robert Gulliotine
Created Gulliotine
Louis XIV (Sun king); King Louis XV and King Lous XVI & Queen Marie Antoinette
Absolute power people
Marie Antoinette
Youngest daughter of Maria Teresa - born in Austria
John Locke
Life, Liberty, Property
Maximilien Robespierre
Wanted change - lead Jacobins
Napoleon
Rising military leader; liberal - wanted revolutions and change; needed 4 powers to stop him
Czar Alexander I
Czar of Russia
Frederick William III
Prussia
Lord Castlereagh
England
Charles Talleyrand
France; survived a lot
Prince Mettermich
Austria
Ludwig van Beethoven
Eroica - Austrian Premier Composer
Richard Wagner
German music and pride - as a person he was not good but as a musician he was great
Giuseppe Verdi
Coincides with Italian Risorgimento - Italian Nationalism Music
Jean Sibelus
Finlandia - most Patriotic European music
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist and diplomat - the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition; mythological subjects