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DENIS DIDEROT |
1713-1784 -Best known for his work on the Encyclopedia -Prominent Enlightenment thinker -French -Encyclopedie represented the thoughts and feelings of the Enlightenment -Pushed for secularization of education -Hoped that the encyclopedie would inspire,inform and motivate others to think for themselves |
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BOLSHEVIKS |
Seized control in 1917. -Literal translation for Russian word "majority" -Considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary working class -Often campaigned under the slogan "peace, land, and bread" -Founded by Lenin and Bogdanov -Overthrew provisional government and took -over. -Based on the ideas of Karl Marx |
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SIGMUND FREUD |
1856-1939 -Austrian Neurologist,father of psychoanalysis, clinical method of treating psychological disorders through dialogue. -used the past of the patient to try and understand their traumas and neuroses -compared the "arenas"/sections of the brain as being in constant conflict(the urges of the primitive brain-sexual- with the rational mind). -Repression of sexual urges |
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ROBERT OWEN |
1771-1858 -British Socialist, believed a healthy happy environment was the most conducive to labor and the right thing to do -Started a colony in the US called New Harmony -His mills across the Uk(particularly scotland) were a model for all to see. Living condition, education, wages were all miles above the nearest comparable factory |
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EDICT OF NANTES |
1598 -Granted Calvinist protestants in France(Huegenots) rights in a country largely inhabited by Catholics and under the large influence of the Pope -Signified a change in attitude -signed to promote civil unity -treated protestants as more than just schismatic heretics,opened a path for secularism and tolerance |
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OTTO VON BISMARK |
German Iron Chancellor -Known for bringing together the German states into a unified nation -Ruled European Politics in the 1870's and 1880's. -Knows for his "realpolitik" and balance of powers -Devoted to keeping peace between the european powers -brilliant strategist |
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PETRARCH |
1304-1374 -Father of Humanism -His vernacular poems turned out to be the basis for the modern Italian Language -rediscovered the classics through Cicero -Came up with the phrase "dark ages" -Credited with finding the work that sparked the Renaissance |
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On The Origin of Species |
-Written by Charles Darwin in 1859 -Hypothesized that humans were the products of evolution through the process of natural selection and survival of the fittest -foundation of evolutionary biology -Church claimed that humans were special(unchanging and designed hierarchy) |
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte |
Ruled France as emperor from 1852-1870 -Ended the 2nd french republic and ushered in the second french empire -promoted public works, constructions of railroads -admirer of his uncle Napoleon the 1st(actual Napoleon) |
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Galileo Galilei |
1564-1642 -Italian astronomer -Father of modern physics -Believed in heliocentric copernican universe view -AKA father of science -tried by the inquisition and placed under house arrest for rest of his life -Played major role in scientific revolution |
