Seeds of Modern Europe: Important Figures

Goth king who successfully invaded and defeated Rome.

• Odoacer

• Constantine

• Alaric

• Henry VIII

father of chemistry - discovered that the movement of particles creates different types of matter

• Descartes

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Robert Boyle

founder of Calvinism, taught predestination

• Martin Luther

• John Calvin

• Henry VII

• Thomas Hobbes

Roman Emperor who divided the nation into two halves

• Constantine

• Alaric

• Odoacer

• Julius Caesar

developed the heliocentric theory

• Vesalius

• Boyle

• Galileo

• Copernicus

"Renaissance Man" known for painting the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo DaVinci

• Machiavelli

• Shakespeare

believed emotions come from the body, not the brain

• Descartes

• Sir Thomas More

• Vesalius

• Machiavelli

improved telescope to study planets and stars

• Sir Thomas More

• Galileo

• Michelangelo

• Odoacer

invented the printing press

• Copernicus

• Alaric

• Galileo

• Gutenberg

Established the Church of England, set the English Reformation in motion

• Sir Thomas More

• Henry VII

• John Calvin

• Martin Luther