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wld hist people
important people from the second quarter
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Petrarch | father of italian humanism |
| Erasmus | wrote Praise of Folly |
| Sir Thomas Moore | wrote Utopia |
| Machiavelli | wrote The Prince |
| Martin Luther | wrote 95 theses, believes you can achieve salvation through faith alone |
| Henry VIII | created Church of England, act of supremacy |
| Charles V | hosts the Diet of Worms, leader of the HRE, creates Edict of Worms, ruled during german wars of religion |
| Phillip II | Spanish ruler, devout catholic and rival of Elizabeth I, ruled with divine right |
| Elizabeth I | ruled England during Golden Age |
| Henry IV | created Edict of Nantes, ruled France (huguenot) and converts to catholic, king during 30 years war |
| Peter the Great | ruled Russia, absolute ruler, legacy=militarize and westernize |
| Frederick II | ruled Prussia, absolute ruler, legacy=militarize |
| Louis XIV | ruled France, absolute ruler, legacy=bankrupted France |
| Johann Gutenberg | invented the printing press in 1454 |
| da Vinci | created Mona Lisa, vertuvius man, last supper etc |
| michelangelo | created David, painted sistine chapel |
| Raphael | created School of Athens |
| Botticelli | created birth of Venus |
| van Eyck | created arnofili marriage |
| Bosch | created Garden of Earthly delight |
| John Calvin | created new sect, believes in predestination, very strict (ex-moral police, no dancing etc) |
| Copernicus | heliocentric view |
| Galileo | excommunicated by the church, forced to recant, believed only through observation can one determine what celestial bodies are made of |
| Kepler | orbits are elliptical |
| Harvey | same blood constantly recycled though your body by veins and arteries |
| Newton | laws of physics, explained gravity |
| James I | ruled by divine right, catholic, ruler of england after Elizabeth I, ignores magna carta (bad relationship with protestants and parliament) |
| Charles I | catholic, dissolves parliament, signs petition of right |
| Cromwell | becomes dictator, makes England a republic, Puritan, leader of the roundheads |
| Charles II | Catholic, gets throne by the Restoration (good relationship with Parliament) |
| James II | Catholic, bad relationship with Parliament, loses throne after the Glorious Revolution |
| William & Mary | sign English Bill of Rights in order to become monarchs after Glorious Revolution, Anglican, equal/good relationship with Parliament |
| George I | german prince who spoke no English, created cabinet in order to help him rule |
| Hobbes | wrote Leviathan, suggests absolute monarchy in order to keep people in order, people are naturally cruel |
| Locke | wrote Two Treatises of Government, natural rights (life, liberty, property), government exists to keep people organized and protect their rights, people are good |
| Montesquieu | wrote The Spirit of the Laws, believes in 3 branches of gov't in order to equally distribute the power |
| Rousseau | wrote The Social Contract, believes gov't comes from the consent of the people, people naturally good but society corrupts them |
| Voltaire | wrote satires about corrupt gov't and social ills, believed you can't persuade based on religious beliefs (books were banned/burned) |
| Jefferson | wrote The Declaration of Independence, believed all men have certain unalienable rights, people have the right to overthrow the gov't |
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