Units 9-10: Key People & Groups

Germanic group that settled in the European area of Gaul (France)

• Franks

• Visigoths

• Ostrogoths

• Lombards

Germanic groups from Denmark that invaded England and intermixed

• Angles and Saxons

• Vikings

• Normans

• Celts

Spanish Conquistador who conquered the Aztecs

• Pizarro

• Cortez

• Magellan

• Balboa

Spanish Empire in the Americas reached its height under this monarch

• Philip II

• Charles V

• Ferdinand II

• Isabella I

Author of The Prince, a treatise (small book) of advice to Italian city-state rulers; “the ends justify the means”

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nomadic Group from central Asia that settled in Hungary in the Late Middle Ages

• Huns

• Avars

• Magyars

• Goths

Common Law began in England during the rule of this king

• Henry II

• Richard III

• Edward I

• Charles I

Inventor of the movable type printing press

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Isaac Newton

Spanish Conquistador who conquered the Inca.

• Cortés

• Pizarro

• Balboa

• Magellan

Started the French throne in Paris; his Dynasty (Capetian) eventually controlled most of France

• Hugh Capet

• Louis XIV

• Charlemagne

• Philip II