AP Euro- Most Influential People

Russian Tsar; Happily introduced Western language to Russian elites; Moved capital of Russia

Sold indulgences to help pay for St. Peter's Basilica

Bolshevik revolutionary; head of Soviet Communists after 1924; dictator of USSR from 1928-53

King of Prussia, agreed to abolish censorship and establish a new constitution.

Italian painter, engineer, musician, and scientist; most versatile genius of the Renaissance

French general, political leader, and emperor of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

An English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection.

Created mercantilism and was able to connect France through industries and trade routes

The woman King Henry secretly married; was beheaded for not giving the king a son.

Named Hitler Chancellor; A German president, but since he was old, the Nazis took advantage.

Father of the Renaissance and humanism

German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary; wrote the "Communist Manifesto"

Considered the architect of the Italian Unification.

A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Church; 95 theses

Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe.

Italian nationalist whose "Red Shirts" freed Sicily and southern Italy.

Emperor of Russia; advocated moderate reforms for Russia; emancipated the serfs

Ended French Civil Wars; Edict of Nantes; gave some religious protection to Huguenots.

Held power in the empire because he gave advice to King Louis XIII; expanded royal power

Ruled Russia from 1762-1796; added new lands to Russia, encouraged science, art, literature.