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26 Cards in this Set
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Frederick Barbarossa |
Holy Roman Emperor (the first) who was called “Red Beard”; dreamed of building an empire from the Baltic to the Adiatic |
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John Locke |
said that people have natural rights that the government should protect |
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Montesquieu |
separation of powers, three branches, checks and balances |
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Rousseau |
wrote The Social Contract, believed government should be limited |
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Cortes |
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs |
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Pizarro |
conquered the Inca empire |
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Vasco da Gama |
Portuguese explorer who led ships around the Cape of Good Hope |
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Copernicus |
Polish scholar who proposed the heliocentric theory |
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Galileo |
assembled an astronomical telescope; put on trial during the Inquisition and labeled a heretic |
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Isaac Newton |
discovered the force of gravity |
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Henry VIII |
made the break from the Catholic church in England; had six wives! |
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Ignatius of Loyola |
Spanish knight who started the Jesuits |
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Martin Luther |
monk who wrote the 95 Theses protesting actions of the Church |
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John Calvin |
Protestant reformer who established a theocracy in Geneva |
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Erasmus |
Dutch priest and humanist; helped spread humanism to a wider public |
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Johann Gutenberg |
inventor of the printing press |
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Leonardo |
painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper; successful at a variety of subjects |
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Michelangelo |
sculptor and painter known as a melancholy genius; painted the Sistene Chapel in Rome |
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Machiavelli |
wrote The Prince; stressed that the end justifies the means |
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Suleiman |
sultan who ruled during the golden age of the Ottoman Empire |
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Akbar |
chief builder of the Mughal Empire; Babur’s grandson |
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Ibn Rushd |
put all knowledge except the Quran to the test of reason |
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Ibn Khaldun |
set standards for the scientific study of history |
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Muhammad |
“The Prophet”; founder of Islam |
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Dante Alighieri |
Italian poet who wrote the Divine Comedy in the early 1300s |
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William the Conqueror |
became king of England on Christmas Day 1066; triumphed over Harold at the Battle of Hastings; originally “of Normandy” |