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Nicholas Copernicus

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Heliocentric Theory

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Johannes Kepler

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Planetary Motion

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Galileo Galilei

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Telescope to support heliocentric theory

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Isaac Newton

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Gravity

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William Harvey

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Blood circulation

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Thomas Hobbes

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Leviathan: Consent to government for protection, people are bad by nature

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John Locke

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Two Treatises on Government: Life, liberty, property

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Montisque

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The spirit of laws: Separation of powers

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Rousseau

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The social contract: Contract between rulers and people

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Voltaire

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Religious Toleration

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Bach

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Baroque

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Mozart

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Classical

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Cervantes

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Novelist (Don Quixote)

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Delacroix

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Painter

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Toussaint L’Ouverture

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Led the Haitian revolution

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Hacienda

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Spanish owned plantation that used native or slave labor

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Encomienda

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Right to organize unpaid labor

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James Hargreaves

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Spinning Jenny

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James Watt

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Steam Engine

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Eli Whitney

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Cotton Gin

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Henry Bessemer

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Process for making steel

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Edward Jenner

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Smallpox Vaccination

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Pasteur

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Bacteria discovered

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Cavour

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Unified northern italy

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Joined southern italy to northern italy

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Otto von Bismark

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Led Prussia to unification of Germany through nationalism and Realpolitik (think machiavelli)

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Eisenhower

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US general Allied commander in Europe WW2

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MacArthur

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US general Allied commander in Pacific WW2

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Marshall

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US general WW2

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Glasnost

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Transparency

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Perestroika

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Reformation

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Golda Meir

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Prime Minister of Israel, ally of US

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Nasser

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President of Egypt, won back Suez Canal, was friends with Soviet Union, built Aswan High Dam.

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