People Unit: 5
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- Voltaire
- writer of epics, tragedies, satire; friends with Fredrick the Great; hated Church; admires England, favors freedom of press, low opinion of human race esp. common man
- Frederick The Great
- King of Prussia (1740-1786). Successful in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) and the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), he brought Prussia great military prestige in Europe.
- Isaac Newton
- Sir Isaac, 1642-1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- John Sebastian Bach
- Composer during the age of reason.
- 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
- French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)
- Louis XIV
- king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
- Eugene Delacroix
- French romantic painter, master of dramatic colorful scenes that stirred the emotions. Greatest romantic painters. Fascinated with remote and exotic subjects. Masterpiece: Liberty Leading the People
- Peter The Great
- ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725, wanted closer ties to western europe, modernize and strengthen Russia
- Charles I
- king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
- John Locke
- treaties on 2 govenments, life, liberty, and property
- William And Mary
- Joint monarchs that ruled after glorious revolution under constitutional monarchy
- Johannes Kepler
- discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are elliptical rather that circular
- William Harvey
- English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 6 year old prodigy. Wrote more than 600 pieces of music. Gained instant celebrity. Died at 35. Music helped define a new style of composition
- Galileo Galilei
- Scientist who built the first telescope and proved that planets and moons move. Persecuted for supporting Copernicus' ideas
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
- Oliver Cromwell
- English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)