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Loyola
- Spanish
- Raised as a knight
- After wounded spiritual conversion
- Devoted himself to god 7hrs a day praying
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Erasmus
- Leader in the humanistic movement
- Believed in the human capacity of self impovement
- disagreed with the abuse of the church
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Bernini
- Italian artist
- leading sculptor of his age
- astonishing realism in marble
- Sculpted "the david"
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John Huss
- Csech Reformer
- Buned at the stake fo opposing the church
- Rebellion to the church caused "Hussite wars"
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Richeliu
- French
- Kings chief minister
- organized france into centralized state
- ensured French Dominance in the 30 yr war
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Giotto
- Italian architect from Florence
- One of the the first to contribute to the renaissance
- Started drawing accuately and life-like which was neglected for over 200 years
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Massacio
- Italian painter
- Consideed best artist from italian renassance
- First one to use linear perspective
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Mirandola
- Italian philosopher
- early age defended 900 thesis of religion, philosophy and magic
- Wrote "Oration Dignity of Man" which was a key to early hummanism
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Machiavelli
- Political Philosopher
- Founding fathers of modern political Science
- Wrote the Prince that book formed politics
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Martin Luther
- German theologian
- Excommunicated by the Church
- Translated the Bible
- opposed the Church
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Albrecht Durer
- German artist
- one fo the first landscape artist
- very popular for printmaking
- Greatest of the Nothern renaissance
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John Calvin
- French Theologian
- Principal Figure in development of christian theology
- reformed the church from within
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Peter the Great
- Reformed russia from knowledge from the east
- Caused wars to improve russian status
- Created new order known as the table of ranks
- Table: you rose to top by ability not birth right
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Akbar
- Mugal Emperor
- Culture and art rose to zenith duing his reign
- Rose to power age 13
- Pushed art and culture
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Adolphus
- King of Sweden
- Greatest military commanders of time
- battle of breitenfield greatest victory
- extemly efficient when it came to war
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Da Gama
- Portuguese explorer
- one of the Greatest in the age of discovery
- Governor of Portugal and India
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John Locke
- English Philosopher
- most influential out of the enlightenment thinkers
- developed on political philosophy
- influenced the declaration of independance
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Sulieman
- turkish
- longest sultan of the ottoman empire
- reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system
- Dominated the mediteranian to the persian gulf
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