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He was sent to the Netherlands by Philip II in 1567 to suppress the Calvinist revolt.
In 1321 finished The Divine Comedy, which described the journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise.
One of the greatest baroque sculptors and architects. In 1629 he designed the bronze canopy in St. Peters basilica in Rome. He is also known for his statue, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa.
In the 1300’s he was a humanist writer who is best known for his Decameron, which tells the tales of 10 people fleeing the Plague
He was a bishop who supported Louis XIV’s claim to Divine Right. 1670
A painter during the Renaissance who used vivid colors and is best known for his Birth of Venus (1480).
Henry the VIII’s second wife, she was condemned to death on accusations of adultery in 1536. She was the mother of Queen Elizabeth
He started and led the Jansenists (reformist Catholics who believed in predestination) in France. Early 1600’s. Louis XIV purged his movement.
War Minister to Louis XIV in 1678; he was responsible for the army reforms under Louis (ranks, recruitment incentives, uniforms, promotion by merit)
Spanish general who lead armies against the Dutch in the Dutch Wars of Independence in the late 1500s.
helped undermine the Ptolemaic view of the universe. He did not totally accept the heliocentric theory because he thought the earth remained stationary. Assistant Kepler.
The French commander in India during the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763).
He succeeded Turgot as Louis XVI’s second controller general of finances. He continued the traditional policy of borrowing money and increased spending. In 1781 he was dismissed and then as the situation intensified he was recalled in 1788 because the other finance ministers were inadequate for the job.
Moderate leader of Parliament during the English Civil War
The Prime Minister of Great Britain who guided Great Britain to victory in the Seven Years War (1756-1763). He also improved the national economy
A “Renaissance Man” Some of his better known works are the Mona Lisa (1502), The Last Supper, and his sketch books which contain many advanced designs.
In the early 1500’s he established a theocracy in Geneva and the new Protestant religion of Calvinism, which emphasized predestination and the Doctrine of the Elect.
He wrote The Book of the Courtier (1518), which states rules of gentlemanly behavior.
A Jacobin who worked his way up in the political system during the French Revolution. He was one of the leaders of the Committee of Public Safety, which was responsible for the Reign of Terror
He instituted crop rotation and learned how to cultivated sandy soil with fertilizer. Known for developing the turnip as a major food crop during the Agricultural Revolution.
She advocated equality of the sexes in Vindication of the Rights of Women (1791)
In his Principia Mathematica (1687) he stated the law of universal gravitation. He popularized Induction as the real Scientific Method.
- In 1774 he got Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts as well as the Quebec Act. He was the Prime Minister under George the III during the American Revolution.
His An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) he said that the population was growing geometrically while the food supply was increasing arithmetically which meant that the population would outgrow the food supply, he thought “moral restraint”(birth control, absence) was the best way to stop this problem.
He was a Scottish philosopher who influenced the development of skepticism and empiricism through his many works, the most famous of which is A Treatise of Human Nature (1740).
- A cardinal and the chief minister to Louis XV. He was the most powerful French minister during the 18th Century and gave France it’s most economical prosperous time.
He wrote Introduction of the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) that expressed his theory of Utilitarianism, which said, “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”.
Married Henry VIII in 1509, she was his first wife but she was unable to bear him a surviving male heir, and the need for her divorce contributed to the Reformation in England.
Developed the Inductive Method, which is reasoning from specific observations and experiments to a more general theory. Late 1500’s and early 1600’s.
Brahe’s assistant, he developed three laws of planetary motion, saying 1. that the planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits (1609), 2. the planets’ velocity varies according to their distance from the sun (1609), and 3. (1619) a mathematical formula explaining the physical relationship among the planets.
In his The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) he set forth the Iron Law of Wages, which said pay the lower class less because there will always be more workers which would therefore increase competition and raise the factories profits.
A critic of the Old Regime and a philososphe. In 1759 he completed Candide, which attacked war religious persecution and talked about rationalism.
A leader of the Jacobin Club during the French Revolution. Charlotte Corday assassinated him in his bathtub in 1793.
The fourth of Henry VIII’s six wives. Married in 1539. He divorced her almost immediately.
The commander of the Roundheads (New Model Army) in the English Civil War, after the war he established the Commonwealth (1649-1653) government and then in 1653 created the Protectorate, which made him a dictator. He restricted religious freedoms of non-Puritans, suppressed discontent in England (Rump Parliament) and was succeeded by his son Richard.
He was the editor of the Encyclopedia whose first volume appeared in 1751.
In 1543 he published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, which explained his heliocentric theory.
An English philosopher who wrote The Leviathan (1651), in which he supported absolutism.
One of the members of the Committee of Public Safety. In 1794 he was killed on the orders of Robespierre so that he would not challenge Robespierre’s power.
a sculptor during the Renaissance, he is best known for his statue David (1430-1432).
He in effect started the War of Jenkins’ Ear when in 1738 he showed his cut off ear to the House of Commons, claiming that the Spanish had cut it off over the asiento right. This led to the War of Austrian Succession
In 1773 he impersonated Peter III and started a revolution by promising freedom from serfdom, taxes, and military service, which resulted in the largest peasant revolt in Russian history.
He was a maker of microscopes and observed“Little Beasties”, credited with the discovery of capillaries and bacteria.
He published The Wealth of Nations in 1776. He believed in laissez-faire and thought the government should not try to regulate the economy.