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65 Cards in this Set
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Thomas Hobbes
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17th centuary who set forth ideas key for the enlightenment
wrote the levianthan set forht that people should live in a social contract arugued that people were naturally bad |
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John Locke
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17th centuary who set forth ideas key for the enlightenment
he believed that peoplehad natural rights and the people were naturally good wrote the two treatises of government |
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Voltaire
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lived in 1700s
attacked corrupt government useing his writing |
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Montesquieu
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lived in 1700s
wrote the spirit of the laws felt that it was for power to be divided into three starte the idea of checks and balaences |
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Philosophes
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1700s
believed that reason could reform governments society and laws |
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Rousseau
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wrote the social contract
beleived naturally good but could esaliy be swayed to evil |
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Diderot
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produced the encyclopedia
wanted to educate the public printed about 4000 copies |
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Adam Smith
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scottish
wrote the the wealth of nations said that free market should be |
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Mozart
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child progidy
died 35 insant celebraity produces enormas amounts of music |
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Enlightened despots
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people in power who accepted the enlightenment and spread it
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Frederick the Great
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had tight control over his subjects
king of prussia priased voltaires work reduced amount of torture tolerated religous difference but desired more power 1740-1786 |
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Catherine the Great
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1762
liked enlightenment abolished torture religous tolorence although she didnt want to give up her power |
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Joseph 2nd
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eager to use enlightenment
disgued himslef and traveled among commoners allowed free press |
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estates
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the social class set up
three levels |
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Bourgeoisie
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top of the middle class
bankers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, professors |
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Louis XVI
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well meaning but weak and indesicive 1774
chose Jacques necker as finacial expert wisley |
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Jacques Necker
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financial advisor to louis XVI
urged king to reduce extravigant spending abolish tariffs on internal trade proposed taxation of 1st and 2nd classes |
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Marquis de Lafayette
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hero of two worlds
fougth with george washington head the national guard |
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olypme de gouges
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1791 jounalsit
declared that she wanted equal rights to men |
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Marie Antoinette
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austrain born queen
lived in pleasure compassiontite to the poor |
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Emigres
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nobles who had fled france and its revolutionary forces
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Sans-culottes
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working class men and women pushed hte revolution into more radical
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Robespierre
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shrewd lawyer and politican
rose to the leadership of the jacobins incoruuptable heartles and cold |
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napoleon
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popular millitary hero who won seris of victories
planned to use him to adavance their own goals but outwitted them and became ruler of france |
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James Watt
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1712 british inventor
improved necomens invention of the steam engine and made it usefully |
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Eli Whitney
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invented the cotton gin in 1793
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Fredrich Engels
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wrote the condition of the working calss in engalnd in1844
describes misery and filth in typical working condition |
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Thomas Malthus
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in 1798 wrote an essay on the principle of population
described population expansion poverty unavoidable ecasue of population growth faster then food |
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Jeremy Bentham
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british philosopher and economist advocated utilitarianism
all laws or actions should be juged on their urility supported the idea of individual freedom but saw the use for government in some casses |
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Robert Owens
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set up a utopian society in New Lanark scotland and put his ideas into practice
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Karl Marx
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1840s german philosopher
came up with scientific socialism worked with friedrich to write the communist manifesto |
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Proletariat
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working class
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Henry Bessemer
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british engineer
came up with a way to make steel from iron |
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Alfred Nobel
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swedish chemist who inveted dynamite
earned a fortue off of it and willed it to the nobel prizes |
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Michael Faraday
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invented the first electric motor and the first dynamo
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Thomas Edison
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made the first electric light bulb and soon they illuminated
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Orcille and Wilbur Wright
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desgned the first air planes at kitty hawk north carolina
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Guglielmo Marconi
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invented the radio in 1901
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Louis Pasteur
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clearly linked microbs to disease in 1870
created vacine agaisnt rabies and anthrax also invented method of killing microbs in milk |
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Robert Koch
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1880s discovered bacterium that caused TB
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Florence Nightingale
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insisted on better hygine in hospitals and founded the first nursing school
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Joesph Lister
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discovered how antiseptics prvented infection and insisted that sugons styrlize equipnment
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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crusaded agaisnt slavery before organizing movements for womens rights
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Sojourner Truth
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african american who said that no one treated her like a women even though she was one
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John Dalton
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devolped modern atomic theory
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Charles Darwin
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published on the origin of species'
said that all life evolved put forth natural selection |
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Victor Hugo
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re created francespast in novels like the three musketeers and the hunchback of notre dame
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Ludwig von Beethoven
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first composser to take advantage of broad range in the modern orchastra
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Charles Dickens
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portrayed slum life in his books like oliver twist
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Louis Daguerre
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improved photography and made it an art
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Claude Monet
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impressionist who brushed strokes of color next to each other with out any blending and used brain to do that for them
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Vinvent van Gogh
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artist who experiment with sharp brush line and bright colors
created a dream like quality in his paintings |
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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leader of austria hungary
was assinated june 28 1914 |
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TE Lawrence
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known as lawrence of aribia
supported the arab revolt |
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Woodrow Wilson
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strong leader who dominated the paris peace confrence
had to compriise on his fourteen points for the treary |
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Kaiser Wilhem 2nd
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german leader at the end of the world war one and stepped down from power and fled to the netherlands
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Alfred von Schlieffen
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guy who developed plan the went through belgium to atack france year before war started
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Francisco Franco
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in 1936 he led the revolt in spain that led to bloody civil war
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Htiler
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leader of the german army and country
built up army to test peace treaty had death camps built to get rid of jews |
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General Erwin Rommel
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german leader also known as the dessert fox who won batles in 1941 and 1942 in north africa
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General Tojo Hideki
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leader of japan during ww2
responsible for attack on peral harbor |
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Benito Mussilini
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leader of italy
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Winston Chuchill
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leader of briian who helped secrect comunication with america for supplies
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Franklin D Roosecelt
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president durnig ww2 and is responsible for the atomic bombs agaisnt japan
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Joesph stalin
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leader of soviet forces and came over to allies side when hitler broke treaty
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