SOL People of Importance

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John Wycliffe

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Imprisoned for life for speaking out against the catholic church

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Jan Huss

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Burned at the stake for speaking out against the catholic chruch.

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Martin Luther

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Wrote the 95 theses against the catholic church; started the reformation

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John Calvin

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Came up with the concept of predestination

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Elizabeth I

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Made Anglicanism the official religion of England

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Habsburg family

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Gained power throughout Europe by marriage

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King Henry VIII

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Started the Anglican church of England over the issue of divorce

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Cardinal Richelieu

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Changed the focus of the 30 years’ war from the religion to land

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Michelangelo

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Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David during the Renaissance

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William Shakespeare

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Northern Renaissance writer from England wrote plays and sonnets

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper

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Desderius Erasmus

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Northern Renaissance writer made fun of the authority figures in praise of folly

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Vasco da gama

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Portuguese explorer Who sailed around Africa (Cape of Good Hope) to India

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Francisco Pizarro

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Explorer who conquered the Incan civilization of Peru

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Hernando Cortez

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Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire of Tenochtitlan (Mexico)

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Portuguese explorer that used compass to trade with West Africa

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Jacques Cartier

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French explorer who claimed much of North America for France

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Spanish explorer who circumnavigated the globe

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Christopher Columbus

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Spanish explorer who first discovered the New World in 1492

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Francis Drake

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English explorer who stole gold and silver from the Spanish

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Galileo Galilei

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Scientist who used the telescope to prove the earth was round

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Johannes Kepler

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Scientist to discover the planetary motion was elliptical (oval) And not round.

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Nicolaus copernicus

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Scientist who discovered the heliocentric theory (Sun centered universe)

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Isaac Newton

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Scientist who discovered the laws of gravity

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William Harvey

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Scientist who discovered that the heart acted like a pump

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Louis XIV

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French absolute monarch who built the palace of Versailles.

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Peter the Great

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Absolute monarch who westernize Russia after touring Western Europe

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Charles I

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Absolute monarch who was beheaded doing the English Civil War

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Oliver Cromwell

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Leader of the roundheads during the English Civil War; Lord Protector

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Charles II

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Monarch who returned to the English throne during the restoration

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William & Mary

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Monarchs who signed the English bill of rights; Glorious Revolution

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Thomas Hobbes

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English philosopher who wrote the leviathan; Humans are selfish, greedy, and evil.

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John Locke

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English philosopher who wrote two treatises on government, natural rights

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Thomas Jefferson

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Incorporated enlightenment ideas in his Declaration of Independence

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Voltaire

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Came up with the idea of separation of church and state and the Freedom of speech

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Said That Government is a contract between rulers and people

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Baron de Montesquie

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Said that the best form of government includes separation of powers

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Louis XIV

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Married to Marie Antoinette and beheaded during the French Revolution

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Rose to power as a result of the French Revolution and conquered Europe

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Wrote the novel Don Quixote

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

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Led a successful slave rebellion in Haiti (French Colony)

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Edward Jenner

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Develop the smallpox vaccination

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Adam Smith

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Wrote the Wealth of Nations, which defined the economic system of capitalism

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Louis Pasteur

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Discovered bacteria

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Karl Marx

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Wrote The Communist Manifesto, which was a response to the injustices of capitalism

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James Watt

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Invented the steam engine during the industrial revolution

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Henry Bessemer

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Discovered the process of making steel from Iron ore

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Eli Whitney

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Invented the cotton gin during the industrial revolution