People who invented stuff Flashcards

(33 cards)

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Nicholas Copernicus

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Heliocentric Theory

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Johannes Kepler

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Planetary Motion

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Galileo Galilei

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Telescope to support heliocentric theory

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Isaac Newton

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Gravity

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5
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William Harvey

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Blood circulation

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Thomas Hobbes

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Leviathan: Consent to government for protection, people are bad by nature

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7
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John Locke

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Two Treatises on Government: Life, liberty, property

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8
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Montisque

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The spirit of laws: Separation of powers

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9
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Rousseau

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The social contract: Contract between rulers and people

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10
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Voltaire

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Religious Toleration

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11
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Bach

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Baroque

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12
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Mozart

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Classical

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13
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Cervantes

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Novelist (Don Quixote)

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14
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Delacroix

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Painter

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15
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Toussaint L’Ouverture

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Led the Haitian revolution

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16
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Hacienda

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Spanish owned plantation that used native or slave labor

17
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Encomienda

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Right to organize unpaid labor

18
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James Hargreaves

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Spinning Jenny

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James Watt

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Eli Whitney

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Henry Bessemer

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Process for making steel

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Edward Jenner

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Smallpox Vaccination

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Pasteur

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Bacteria discovered

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Cavour

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Unified northern italy

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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Joined southern italy to northern italy
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Otto von Bismark
Led Prussia to unification of Germany through nationalism and Realpolitik (think machiavelli)
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Eisenhower
US general Allied commander in Europe WW2
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MacArthur
US general Allied commander in Pacific WW2
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Marshall
US general WW2
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Glasnost
Transparency
31
Perestroika
Reformation
32
Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel, ally of US
33
Nasser
President of Egypt, won back Suez Canal, was friends with Soviet Union, built Aswan High Dam.