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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Invented the steam engine. Improvements included governor and flywheel | James Watt |
| First non-Italian pope since the 16th century, this Polich pope favored cooperation among all faiths | Pope John Paul II |
| Greek philosopher and mathematician, credited with the discovery that numbers are useful for more than counting | Pythagoras |
| Spiritual and moral leader of India that favored independence from Great Britain Studied and practiced law Practiced passive resistance, civil disobedience, and boycotts to generate social and political change Assassinated in 1948 | Mohandus Gandhi |
| Principal author of the Declaration of Independence US Ambassador to France Washington’s Secretary of State 3rd President Authorized Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson |
| Delegate to 1st and 2nd Continental Congresses Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1st President of the USA-served two terms | George Washington |
| 16th President of USA Helped build the Republican Party Administration Civil War Gettysburg Address Emancipation Proclamation Assassinated before he could implement Reconstruction Plans | Abraham Lincoln |
| President of Princeton University; Governor of NJ 20th President of the United States Federal Reserve Act and the Federal Trade Commission began during his adm. WWI Peace Plan known as 14 Points Dream of League of Nations not approved by Congress | Woodrow Wilson |
| British statesman; appoint Prime Minister in 1940 Vowed “victory at all costs…for without victory there is no survival.” Predicted the “iron curtain” of the Cold War Nobel Prize Literature 1953 for The Second World War | Winston Churchill |
| Believed that Germany was at risk from Jewish, socialist, democratic, and liberal forces Leader of the national Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI) Fuhrer of Germany 1942 Holocaust-”Final Solution to the Jewish Question” 50 million dead C | Adolf Hitler |
| Influenced by works of Karl Marx Founder of the Russian Communist Party 1917 lead the November Revolution to establish a “soviet” government based on a union of workers, peasants, and soldiers | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov “Lenin” |
| Believed the peasants would be the best support for Communist Revolution Opposed Nationalist Chiang-Kai Shek leader of Communist Party in China Founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949 | Mao Zedong |
| Roman Catholic nun set a world wide standard for humanitarian aid Founded the Missionaries of Charity-doing work among the poor, dying, and abandoned of India Nobel Peace Prize 1979 | Mother Teresa |
| Leading spokesman for passive resistance to South African aparthied in the 1980s Nobel Peace Prize 1983 for his attempts to promote racial equality 1986 became the head of the South African Anglican Church | Desmond Tutu |
| Invented the catapult, grappling devices, and an device to move water and loose material from one level to another Mathematical writing on the principle of the lever was a significant contribution to knowledge | Archimedes |
| Polish astronomer proposed the theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system in 1507 | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| Cyrene for North Africa that studied mathematics in Athens 1st to calculate the circumference of the earth, describe it as a sphere, and predict that ships could sail from Greece to India | Erastothenes |
| Italian scientist that developed the modern experimental method Proved Copernican Theory Proved objects of different masses fall at the same velocity Used a telescope to examine objects in the sky In conflict with the Roman Catholic church | Galileo |
| Greek philosopher and mathematician Credited with the idea that mathematic formulas could help establish patterns Pythagorian Theorem | Pythagorus |
| English physicist and chemist Discovered the nature of elements and compounds Boyle’s law | Robert Boyle |
| Proved that radio activity, when properly applied, was an effective treatment of some diseases Discovered the elements: polonium and radium Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and 1911 | Marie Curie |
| American Inventor-held 1,300 patents Credited with Automatic telegraph machine Phonograph Incandescent light bulb Modernized telephone Motion picture equipment Operated world’s 1st electric power station Menlo Park “invention factory” | Thomas Edison |
| German-Jewish Physicist that immigrated to the USA in 1933 Theory of Relativity-energy equals mass times the speed of light squared Theories critical to the development of the atomic bomb 1921 Nobel Prize Physics | Albert Einstein |
| 1807 changed maritime transportation with the invention of the first successful, commercial steamboat known as the Clermont | Robert Fulton |
| English mathematician and physicist Devised principles to explain universal gravitation—all matter attracts other matter Believed that reason and rationality could be applied to natural phenomenon | Sir Isaac newton |
| French chemist Discovered that heat could kill bacteria which spoiled liquids. Pasteurization-heating liquids to kill bacteria (esp. in milk) Introduced microbiology Invented a rabies vaccine | Louis Pasteur |
| Scottish engineer Created a steam engine with a new type of governor to control steam power and engine speed. A flywheel was attached to convert steam power to mechanical power Important to Industrial Revolution | James Watt |
| Dealt the symbolic blow that began the Reformation when he nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church. That document contained an attack on papal abuses and the sale of indulgences by church officials. | Martin Luther |
| German goldsmith and inventor Credited with inventing a movable type printing press Major work: 42 line Bible Printing technology spread rapidly throughout Europe and is key to the Renaissance | Johannes Gutenberg |
| “Renaissance Man” most famous as a painter, sculptor, and architect Mona Lisa Last Supper Scientist & Engineer: Notebooks of scientific observation Anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics | Leonardo Da Vinci |
| Rose to through the French military to become the Emperor of France Great military commander—attempted to conquer Europe Code Napoleon formed foundation of civil law that incorporated religious toleration and the abolition of serfdom | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Known as “The Liberator” of South America Military victories of the Spanish colonial army won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela | Simon Bolivar |
| English naturalist that originated the concept of natural selection Theoretical books The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) The Descent of Man (1871) | Charles Darwin |
| German philosopher and political economist Communist Manifesto (1848) History advances through class struggle Predicted the end of capitalism would be brought about by the organization of working class, thus ushering in the age of communism | Karl Marx |
| South African revolutionary with the African National Congress-fought against apartheid Imprisoned from 1964-1982 for plotting to overthrow the government 1993 Nobel Peace Prize 1994-1999 President of South Africa-transition to democratic rule | Nelson Mandela |
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