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- Fredrick the Great
- one of most famous rulers of prussia
- Oliver Cromwell
- English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
- Charles I
- king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
- Isaac Newton
- English mathematician and physicist
- John Locke
- English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
- Thomas Hobbes
- English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)
- Montesquieu
- (1689-1755) wrote 'Spirit of the Laws', said that no single set of political laws was applicable to all - depended on relationship and variables, supported division of government
- Galileo Galilei
- Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
- William Harvey
- English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood
- Louis XIV
- king of France from 1643 to 1715
- Peter the Great
- ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725, wanted closer ties to western europe, modernize and strengthen Russia
- William and Mary
- Prostestant, married William of Orange ruler of Netherlands and Protestant champion of Europe, invited by Parilament to assume the throne, James II offered no resistence and fled to France
- Charles II
- King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-1685) who reigned during the Restoration, a period of expanding trade and colonization as well as strong opposition to Catholicism
- Johannes Kepler
- German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630)