| A | B |
|---|
| Louis XVI | absolute monarch of France - caused problems by doing away wtih the Edict of Nantes - built Versailles |
| Sun King | nickname of Louis XVI |
| Frederick the Great | absolute ruler of Prussia |
| Peter the Great | absolute ruler of Russia - he wanted to westernize Russia |
| Copernicus | Polish - heliocentric theory - feared the church |
| Kepler | German - used math to prove that earth goes around the sun in an ellipse |
| Galileo | Italian - telescope to prove Copernicus right - declared a heretic |
| Harvey | English - blood circulates through the body |
| Newton | English - developed calculus and the laws of gravity |
