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AP Euro- People
people on the AP Euro tests
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10th Grade
05/07/2009

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Savonarola
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Bonfire of the Vainities; against secularism, died of heresy in his bonfires for being critical of the church
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Louis Philippe
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r.1830-1848; accepted constitutional charter of 1814; accepted red, white, and blue of French Revolution flag
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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famous Baroque music composer
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Catherine of Aragon
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married to and divorced from Henry VIII for not bearing him an heir, she was the reason the Church of England came about
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Martin Luther
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Lutheranism; consubstantiation, 95 theses, Wittenberg,Germany; figuredhead of Protestant Reformation
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John Calvin
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Calvinism, predestination, Geneva, Switzerland; state & church united, consubstantiation
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Johann Gutenberg
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printing press/ movable-type inventor (1455)
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Raphael
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Renaissance artist, Achool of Athens
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Renaissance artist/inventor, Mona Lisa, Lord's Last Supper
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Voltaire
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real name; Francois Marie Arouet, Enlightenment period, Candide, against religious intolerance, philosophe
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince, rather of political science, 'go for what you want without worry over others'
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Michelangelo
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Renaissance artist; Sistine Chapel ceiling, David
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Ulrich Zwingli
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Swinglism, Church & state together; heavily influenced by Calving, Eucharist only a symbol of Last Supper
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Desiderius Erasmus
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wrote Praise of Folly, critical of Church, is not convicted of heresy, deeply religious
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Thomas More
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Utopia; killed by Henry VIII for not accepting the Church of England
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Giotto
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Renaissance artist
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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author of The Decameron; popular by historians for the description of the Black Death
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Edward III
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English King, claimed French throne, Duchy of Aquitaine, Hundred Years War, loses the war
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Maria Theresa
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Habsburg woman, supposed to inherit throne of lands, Seven Year War starts up over the conflict
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Boris Yeltsin
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first democratically elected president of Russia. Now dead
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Lech Walesa
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Leader of Solidarity in Poland, first democratically elected president of poland, shock therapy
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Simone de Beauvoir
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The Second Sex, author in 1970s, feminist
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Willy Brandt
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West Germany taxes increased to aid East germany after Berlin Wall fallls, ostpolitik, detente
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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last ruler of USSR, out of a job at end of colv war, aided War to end, glasnost, perestroika
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Brezhnev Doctrine, neo-stalinist, Russian leader after Khrushchev
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Christine de Pisan
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Renaissance woman, scholar, greatly respected by men
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Joan of Arc
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France, Hundred Years War, kidnapped by English, executed for heresy when the French refused her, claimed to have heard saints speaking to her, led many French troops to victory
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Anne Boleyn
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Queen Mary's mother, Henry VIII's second wife, beheaded her so that he could marry another
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Henry VIII of England
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Church of England, Supremacy Act, divorced Catherine of Aragon, married and beheaded Anne Boleyn, fathered Mary and Elizabeth Tudor
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Elizabeth I of England
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Protestant, reforms to allow religious toleration, head of Church of England, Spanish Armada, "Virgin Queen", Virginia
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Henry II the Navigator
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Prince Herny, would never receive throne, created schools of navigation with his money instead, Age of Exploration
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William Shakespeare
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Elizabethan playwright who wrote of many human tendencies
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Hernando Cortez
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Mexico
Aztecs
Cortez

tricked Aztecs into giving him their gold, Age of Exploration
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Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
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Reconquista - threw out Jews and Moors (Muslims); united Spain through Marriage, Age of Exploration, Christopher Columbus
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Christopher Columbus
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Age of Exploration, Spain, found America & mistook it for India (he was looking for a westwrad trade route to India through the Atlantic Ocean)
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Ferdinand Magellan
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circumnavigated the globe...almost. Died in the Philippines, Age of Exploration
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Francis Pizarro
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Pizarro
Incans
Peru

Pizarrro took over the Incans from Peru
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Famous Baroque style composer
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Henry IV of France
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Edict of Nantes, turned Catholic claiming "Paris is Worthy of the Mass', French King, War of three Henry's
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Louis XIV of France
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Sun King, revoked Edict of Nantes, Versilles, forced nobles to live at palace 1/2 year, Fronde made huge impact on him, divine right, strict ruler
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Thomas Hobbes
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Leviathan, people are born bad, must be dominated by ruler through whatever means, people cannot govern themselves
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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heliocentric theory, works published after death, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs
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Johannes Kepler
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Law of Planetary Motion, data from predecessors
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Emelian Pugachev
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led revolution in Russia under the reign of Catherine the Great after her many reforms
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Catherine the Great of Russia
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created many reforms; booted husband out after becoming king and queen; revolts occured and she became much more strictwith her people
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Galileo Galilei
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perfeted the telescope, found data used by Kepler and Copernicus later, recanted his teachings before the Church
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Adam Smith
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father of capitalism; laissez faire, agaist mercantilism, people will selfishly take care of the economy
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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composer
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Frederic Chopin
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composer/pianist
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Walter Scott
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author
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Karl Marx
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co-author of communist manifesto, father of communism, believed the wokers positions would only worsen and only possible way to revolt would be very bloody
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Napoleonic Code; 1799-1815, thrown out twice, elected into position after French Revolution, former soldier, proto-totalitarian, always appeared in military uniform
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Georges Danton
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Jacobins, put to death on guillotine for not being so enthusiastic about the French Rev., friends with Robespierre, not as radical
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Louis Pasteur
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Germ Theory; pasteurization
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Joseph Lister
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antiseptic
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Napoleon III
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Louis Napoleon, took name o fhis uncle for more recognition after he was elected into position, French leader
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Sigmund Freud
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Freudian psychology; id, ego, superego, all thing originat from mother/childhood, made insanity something treatable
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Charles Darwin
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natural selection; not fond of social darwinism; theory of evolution
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Emile Zola
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famous romantic author
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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"The Sword"; helped unify Italy by overtaking the kingdom of two Sicilies
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Camillo Cavour
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"The Mind", Ghost of Machiavelli, helped to unify Italy through whatever means necessary
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Giuseppe Mazzini
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"The Heart", helped unify Itally, Young Italy
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Otto von Bismarck
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Machiavellian tactics, unified Germany, created strong treaties with Russia and isolated France from other countries
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Nicolaus II of Russia
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last czar of Russia, abdicated, Bloody Sunday, Rasputin, revolution, WWII
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Captain Alfred Dreyfus
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Jewish military official convicted of a crime he was innocent for in a military court, brought to a public court and found innocent, the occurence showed the rise of anti-semetic ideals in the time period
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Rudyard Kipling
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author, White Man's Burden
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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assassinated by a Serbian terrorist group "The Black Hand" in the Balkans, trigger for WWII
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Rasputin
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monk from Russia, ruled country while Nicholaus II was away at WWII, Queen's advisor
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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NEP, first communist Russian leader, Leninist Marxism, do not need an Ind. Rev. so long a sintellectual leaders are present
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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find meaning in life without God, existentialism, WWII
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Albert Einstein
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Jewish scientist, came to America avoiding Holocaust, helped create Atom bomb, Theory of Relativity
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Virginia Woolf
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author from "The Lost Generation"
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T.S. Eliot
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author from "The Lost Generation"
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Vinvent van Gogh
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Impressionist painter
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
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Impressionist painter
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Claude Monet
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Impressionist painter
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Adolf Hitler
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psycho. German dictator, came to power in 1933, WWII, Holocaust, fascist, antisemetic, totalitarian
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Josef Stalin
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second communist Russian leader, killed all who opposed him, had Trotsky murdered when it seemed he would be chosen as the next leader, Great Purges, Five-Year Plans, present for WWII
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Benito Mussolini
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Italian dictator, fascist, WWII
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Nikita Khrushchev
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after Stalin, de-stalinization, reforms, more liberties, Russian leader, seen as too weak and pulled out of office
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Winston Churchill
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British Prime minister after Chamberlain, WWII, much more liked
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Neville Chamberlain
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British Prime minister, allowed Appeasements of Hitler, Munich conference, greatly disliked
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