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10th Grade
12/14/2011

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John Calvin
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A french theologian during the protestant reformation who developed Calvinism.
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Copernicus
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A German astronomer who diverged from the old, geocentric, view of the universe with his view that the universe was heliocentric.
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Cranmer
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Henry VIII’s adviser who anulled Henry’s marriage to Catherine and wrote the Book of Common Prayer.
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Elizabeth I
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An English queen who returned England to Protestantism after Mary and passed the Second Act of Supremacy, and Act of Uniformity.
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Galileo
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An Italian astronomer who challenged the church with his discoveries that the universe wasn’t perfect and the earth wasn’t unique. He also discovered laws having to do with motion.
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Garibaldi
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An Italian patriot who was a central figure and leader in the Italian unification by raising an army and pacifying a few revolts.
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Henry IV
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Known as Henry of Navarre before his ascent to kingship, he was the leader of the Huguenots who converted to Catholicism in order to be accepted by France.
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Henry VIII
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An English king who separated the Church of England from the papacy so he could divorce Catherine with the Act in Restraint of Appeals and the Act of Supremacy in 1534.
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Huguenots
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Calvinists in France who constituted 40-50% of the nobility and fought the ultra-catholics in the French Religious Wars.
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Leo X
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A pope who issued indulgences in exchange for help building Saint Peter’s Basilica. He mostly ignored Luther aside from excomunicating him, and this helped lead to Luther’s success.
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Locke
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An English philosopher and Enlightenment thinker who believed that people were inherently good and that the government was meant to protect their life, liberty, and property.
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Louis XIV
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The Sun king of France who built Versailles and issued the Edict of Fontainebleau.
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Louis XVI
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A Constitutional monarchist ruler of France who tried to initiate a counter-revolution by fleeing the country with his wife. He was found guilty of treason and executed in 1793.
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Louis Napoleon
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President of the second French republic. When he became Napoleon III, he was the ruler of the second French Empire.
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Louis-Philippe
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He became king of France in 1830 during the July Monarchy. An economic crisis under his rule lead to the 1848 revolutions and his abdication.
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Luther
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A German monk who started the Protestant Reformation with his 95 theses in 1517.
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Metternich
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An Austrian prince who upheld conservative ideas and kept revolutions at bay by proposing the principal of intervention and having many spies who watched out for nationalist or liberal plots.
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Napoleon I
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After working his way up through the millitary and participating in a coup, he crowned himself emperor of France in 1804 and conquered a significant portion of Europe before his defeat by the Russians and British.
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Newton
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An english physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who set out three Laws of Motion and the Universal Law of Gravitation.
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Philosophes
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French thinkers of the enlightenment who who criticized the faults of society, supported tolerance, and distrusted organized religion and feudal institutions.
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Robespierre
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A French lawyer and radical who dominated the Comitte of Public Safety and the Reign of Terror and was eventuallly executed.
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Rousseau
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A Genevan polymath who was known for his political writing and ideas of a social contract and general will.
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Voltaire
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A French philosophe who strongly advocated freedom of religion and religious toleration. He also favored enlightened despotism.
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William II and Mary II
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King and Queen of England who were unable to become absolute monarchs due to the Bill of Rights. They also passed the Toleration Act.
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Wagner
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A German composer who tried to include all of the arts in his operas and was known for the concept of the leitmotif.
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Wellington
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A British commander who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
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Zwingli
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Leader of the Reformation in Switzerland who favored many, but not all, of Luther’s ideas.
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