| A | B |
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| Marco Polo | Italian explorer whose account of his time in China sparked Western interest in going there |
| Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince who helped sponsor explorers |
| Johann Gutenberg | made the first European movable type printing press |
| Christopher Columbus | explorer who discovered the Americas |
| Copernicus | Polish astronomer who developed the heliocentric theory |
| Sir Isaac Newton | English mathematician and physicist who developed the law of gravitation and the three laws of motion |
| James Watt | Scottish inventor who created the first practical steam engine |
| Charles Darwin | English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution |
| Louis Pasteur | French scientist who developed the germ theory of disease |
| Thomas Edison | American inventor of the first practical light bulb |
| Sigmund Freud | father of modern psychology and psychiatry |
| Henry Ford | developed the moving assembly line to expedite producing cars |
| Albert Einstein | brilliant physicist who developed the theory of relativity (E= mc2) |
