TCI World Connections Ch12 Flashcards | StudBudTCI World Connections Ch12
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1Galileo Galilei
- Observed the sky through a telescope
- He is not a real person
- Married The Queen and united the kingdoms
- Wanted people to live with better values and morals
2John Calvin
- Wanted people to follow the church
- Invented the tango
- wanted to find the carribean
- the values of hard work and rejection of worldly pressures
3Antoine Lavoisier
- explained the chemical process of fire
- Said that the earth revolved around the sun
- Ran the first marathon
- Built the first plane
4Raphael
- Helped russisa become westernized
- Reflects the humanist devotion to classical ideas
- Used the first pencil
- Painted the last supper
5Martin Luther
- Cure the king of england from the plague
- died from the plague
- Wrote and printed his views against the church
- wrote a letter to the Pope
6Desiderius Erasmus
- Led a revolution
- Invented the alphabet
- Promoted a deeper spiritual experience
- Killed the Pope
7Isaac Newton
- Wanted people to leave the church
- Explained the laws of physics and gravity
- Discovered America
- Was a powerful corrupt priest
8Carl Linnaeus
- Developed a system for classifying plants and animals
- Publish the book that explained the laws of gravity
- Painted the Sistine Chapel
- Built a telescope
9Michelangelo
- Wrote Books
- Started a new religion
- Depicted the human body
- French Philosopher skilled in math
10Pope Leo X
- Was beheaded and ended a war
- Thought Luther's ideas were a threat to the church
- Wanted to unite all the European countries under the church
11Boccaccio
- cured the plague
- Was a Priest who helped change the church
- Wrote the Decameron
12Dante
- Sailed to Asia
- Write the Divine Comedy
- Used the printing press
- Conquered Greece
13Baron de Montesquieu
- Discovered gravity
- Made the Case for the 3 branches of Government
- Painted the Mona Lisa
- Invented the printing press
14Leonardo Da Vinci
- Used fire to light the first cannon
- Painted the Mona Lisa
- Wanted to separate from the church
- Painted many painting and invented lots of things
