WH2 People

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Who led Prussia in the Unification of Germany and was seen as a example of Realpolitik?

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Bismark

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French religious and political figure who changed the focus of the Thirty Years’ War from a religious to a political conflict

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Cardinal Richelieu

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English thinker who formulated the law of gravity

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newton

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Absolute monarch of Russia; built St. Petersburg as a symbol of the wealth and power of Russia; sought to westernize Russia and make it more like Western Europe

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Peter the Great

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Italian Renaissance artist famed for his paintings of The Last Supper, a masterpiece of perspective, and The Mona Lisa, which depicts the Renaissance theme of humanism

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Wrote “The Social Contract”; Enlightenment thinker who believed that government is a contract between rulers and the people

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Jean Jacque Rousseau

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Led Parliamentary forces (Roundheads) during English Civil War; defeated loyalist forces (Cavaliers) of Charles I; ruled monarch-free England as Lord Protector for a decade after execution of Charles I

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Cromwell

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Portuguese explorer who rounded the tip of southern Africa and ventured to the coast of India, where he established Portugal as a major trade empire in the Indian Ocean

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Vasco da Gama

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Catholic priest who started the Mexican independence movement

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Hidalgo

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Portuguese-born explorer who sailed for Spain and discovered route around southern tip of South America and across Pacific Ocean (killed in the Philippines, but crew was first to circumnavigate the globe)

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Magellan