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  • American History
    • American History Honors >
      • Map Test
    • Unit 0: 1763 - 1800 - Revolutionary America
    • Unit 1: 1800 - 1848 - Expansion & Reform
    • Unit 2: 1848 - 1877 - A Nation Divided
    • Unit 3: 1865 - 1898 - The Gilded Age
    • Unit 4: 1890 - 1920 - American World Debut
    • Unit 5: 1920 - 1945 - Trials and Tribulations
    • Unit 6: 1945 - 1963 - Cold War Tensions
    • Unit 7: 1955 - 1980 - Conflicts & Resolutions
    • Unit 8: 1980 - present - Modern America
  • World History
    • World History Honors
    • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
    • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
    • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
    • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Sea of Exploration
    • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
    • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
    • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
    • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
    • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
    • AP World History >
      • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
      • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
      • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
      • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Transoceanic Interconnections
      • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
      • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
      • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
      • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
      • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
    • AP European History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Civic Literacy
    • Unit 1 - Developing State and Local Government
    • Unit 2 - The Law
    • Unit 3 - Political Culture & Ideology
    • Unit 4 - National Government

People to Know

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JOHANNES 
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GUTENBERG

GERMANY
​(1400-1468
)
  • German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a printing press
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HENRY VIII

ENGLAND
​​(r.1509–1547
)
  • ​English king who created the Church of England after the Pope refused to annul his marriage​
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GALILEO GALILEI

ITALY
(1564–1642
)
  • Italian astronomer and mathematician who made contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and the development of the scientific method
  • insistence that the universe was bound to mathematical laws & experimentation was the method for discovering the facts of nature
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FRANCIS BACON

ENGLAND
(1561–1626
)
  • English philosopher who formalized the empirical method of inductive reasoning, i.e the scientific method
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VOLTAIRE

FRANCE
(1694–1778
)
  • French philosopher and writer who was the embodiment of the Age of Enlightenment, often attacking injustice and intolerance.
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JOHN LOCKE

ENGLAND
(1632–1704
)
  • English philosopher who saw men as inherently good, advancing the ideas of a "social contract" in which government's job is to protect the peoples' rights
  • ​advocated that all men are created equal with natural rights to life, liberty and property
  • advocated that if government didn't uphold its duty, the people have the right to alter or change it
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ADAM SMITH

SCOTLAND
(1723–1790
)
  • economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations detailing that economics was governed by natural laws such as supply and demand
  • seen as the founder of capitalism
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MARTIN LUTHER

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
​​(1483–1546
)
  • German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Church helping start the Protestant Reformation
  • wrote 95 theses attacking the church practices such as the selling of indulgences
  • translated the Bible into German
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NICOLAS 
​
COPERNICUS

ENGLAND
(1473–1543
)
  • believed that the Sun is at the center of the universe, and all the planets revolve around the Sun in a circular pattern
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ISAAC NEWTON

ENGLAND
(1643–1727
)
  • ​​English mathematician and scientist who invented calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light, and three laws of motion
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RENÉ DESCARTES

FRANCE
​(1596–1650
)
  • French philosopher who formalized rational method of deductive reasoning, i.e rationalism
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THOMAS HOBBES

ENGLAND
(1588–1679
)
  • ​English philosopher who saw men as inherently bad, needing law & order enforced by absolute monarch
  • ​advanced the concept of the "social contract" in which people give up some liberty in exchange for security
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BARON DE 
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MONTESQUIEU

FRANCE
(1689–1755
)
  • French aristocrat who urged that governmental power be separated between executive, legislative, and judicial branches, each balancing out and checking the others power, thus preventing despotism
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  • American History
    • American History Honors >
      • Map Test
    • Unit 0: 1763 - 1800 - Revolutionary America
    • Unit 1: 1800 - 1848 - Expansion & Reform
    • Unit 2: 1848 - 1877 - A Nation Divided
    • Unit 3: 1865 - 1898 - The Gilded Age
    • Unit 4: 1890 - 1920 - American World Debut
    • Unit 5: 1920 - 1945 - Trials and Tribulations
    • Unit 6: 1945 - 1963 - Cold War Tensions
    • Unit 7: 1955 - 1980 - Conflicts & Resolutions
    • Unit 8: 1980 - present - Modern America
  • World History
    • World History Honors
    • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
    • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
    • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
    • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Sea of Exploration
    • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
    • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
    • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
    • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
    • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
    • AP World History >
      • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
      • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
      • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
      • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Transoceanic Interconnections
      • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
      • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
      • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
      • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
      • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
    • AP European History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Civic Literacy
    • Unit 1 - Developing State and Local Government
    • Unit 2 - The Law
    • Unit 3 - Political Culture & Ideology
    • Unit 4 - National Government