| A | B |
|---|
| Magellan | his ship sailed around the world |
| Maria Theresa | ruler of Austria - Hungary - "Enlightened Despot" |
| Montesquieu | Enlightenment writer - wanted a system of checks & balances in govt. |
| Oliver Cromwell | military ruler of England |
| Peter the Great | he "modernized"/westernized Russia - moved the capital to St. Petersburg |
| Pizarro | Spanish conquistador - he conquered the Incas |
| Rousseau | wrote "Social Contract" - democracy helped to lead French Revolution |
| St. Joan of Arc | she united France against England - yet was burned at the stake for heresy against Church |
| Suleiman the Magnificent | ruled Ottoman Empire - 1550 "Golden Age" art, literature, architecture |
| Thomas Hobbes | English writer - supported "divine right" because it kept order |
| Vasco da Gama | 1497 reached the southern tip of Africa |
| Voltaire | "Enlightenment writer" - religious toleration |
