People Flashcards

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Martin Luther

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  • German monk who triggered revolt of the Church

- author of the 95 Theses against indulgences

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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  • artist of the Italian Renaissance

- famous for The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

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  • artist of the Italian Renaissance

- famous for sculpture of David and murals in the Sistine Chapel in Rome

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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-famous for the book “The Prince” (guide for rulers on how to gain and maintain power)

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Johann Gutenberg

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  • famous for the printing press

- sparked the Printing Revolution

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Thomas More

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  • English humanist

- wrote “Utopia”, describing new ideals for men and women, which supported social reforms

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Albrecht Durer

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  • artist of the Renaissance (in the North)

- applied engravings to his paintings

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John Calvin

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  • preached of “predestination”
  • “Calvinists” attempted to live like saints
  • set up a theocracy (government run by the church)
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Henry VIII

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-took over the English church to get what he wanted (mutiple wives)

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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  • classified as a scientist

- proposed heliocentric model of the universe

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Galileo Galilei

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  • scientist
  • made astronomical telescope
  • proposed that Earth moves around the sun
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Francis Bacon/Rene Descartes

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  • scientists
  • wanted to understand how truth is determined
  • it is known by a process of investigation
  • Bacon = experiments + observation
  • Descartes = human reasoning
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Isaac Newtown

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  • scientist
  • created the theory/law of gravity
  • used arithmetic known as calculus
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Vasco da Gama

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  • Portuguese voyager
  • voyaged around Africa to India
  • set up the first European posts in India
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Prince Henry

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  • led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal

- under his leadership many islands and African territories were discovered and claimed for Portugal

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Ferdinand Magellan

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  • Portuguese voyager
  • sailed around South America
  • conitinued across Pacific Ocean to the Phillipines where he was killed
  • his crew continued on to Spain
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Christopher Columbus

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-wanted to find the Northwest passage to Asia and discovered the Americas which he claimed for Spain

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Hernan Cortes

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  • Spanish conquistador

- with allies, he conquered the Mexican capitol of Tenochitlan

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Francisco Pizarro

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  • Spanish conquistador

- with allies, he conquered the South American city of Inca

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Queen Isabella

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-she and her husband, Ferdinand II, brought stability to Spain and therefore better unification

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Zheng He

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-(under the Ming Emperor) he commanded a Chinese fleet that sailed to Southeast Asia, India, and the Arabian gulf

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Tokugawa Ieyasu

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  • founded Tokugawa shogun of Japan
  • created unified orderly society
  • conservative ways would bring conflict with future foreigners
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Maximillion Robespierre

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  • nicknamed :”The Incorruptible”
  • dedicated to the French Revolution
  • promoted “public of virtue” through strict laws
  • brought the Reign of Terror with the guillotine (aka The National Razor)
  • Reign of Terror: inflexible justice with an influx of death sentences
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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  • born in Corsica (a French territory)
  • won the Battle of Lodi (vs. Austrian army)
  • won Battle of Trafalgar (vs. Britain)
  • won of Toulon (vs. Britain)
  • Military educated
  • recieved the nickname of “le petite corporal”
  • supported Robespierre
  • loved power
  • came from minor nobility
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Louis XVI

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  • King at the time of French Revolution snd also the cause
  • married Marie Antoinette of Austria (aka “Lady Deficit”)
  • killed in the Reign of Terror
  • disliked by subjects
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Jean-Paul Marat

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  • radical journalist in the French Revolution
  • his writings fuled the Reign of Terror
  • killed by Charlotte Corday in the hopes of bringing peace back to France
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Voltaire

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  • French philosopher in the “Age of Reason”
  • encouraged freedom of religion, expression, slaves, and separation of church and state
  • always defended the principle of freedom of speech
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Denis Diderot

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  • French philosopher during the Enlightenment

- chief editor and contributor to the Encyclopedia

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Baron de Montesquieu

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  • writer of the Enlightenment
  • voice of democracy
  • writer of “The Spirit of the Laws”, which advanced the idea of seperation of powers (a foundation of modern democracy)
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John Locke

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  • philosopher of the scientififc revolution

- argued that relifion and divine aid (indulgences) are not needed for an individual’s destiny to be determined

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Adam Smith

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  • Scottish moral philosopher during Enlightenment
  • advocated abolition of mercentile system
  • saw nature as a set of physical resources to be exploited by human beings
  • was in favor of limited government activity in the economy
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Catherine the Great

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  • Russia’s greatest ruler
  • came to power after her husband, Peter III, was assassinated
  • led Russia into the “Golden Age”
  • Russia grew larger and stronger, becoming recognixed as on of ther great powers of Europe