| A | B |
|---|
| Adolph Hitler | responsible for the decline of Europe/dictator |
| Galileo Galiliei | used a telescope to usher in modern astronomy/proved theories of earth obiting sun |
| Johan Gutenberg | created the printing press |
| Michelangelo | gave us burning images of art - Sistine Chapel |
| Christopher Columbus | discovered and opened up the Americas to the world |
| James Watt | water+hear=steam/set machines running/invented modern life |
| Issac Newton | father of modern science, math, physics/laws of motion |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | brought science and Catholicism together in Medieval times |
| Leonardo daVinci | invented the modern idea of the artist as visionary |
| Mahatma Gandhi | gained freedom for India from Britain/non-violent protest |
| Martin Luther | established the first Protestant church/led Protestant Reformation |
| Sigmund Freud | father of psychoanalysis |
| Louis Pasteur | French biochemist discovered that heating liquid kills germs |
| Karl Marx | wrote Communist Manifesto and Das Capital |
| Thomas Edison | 1093 patents/phonograph/electric light |
| Thomas Jefferson | Declaration of Independence/founding father |
| Charles Darwin | Theory of Evolution/Origin of Species |
| John Locke | separation of church and state/power to the people |
| Genghis Khan | dominating military force/gave rise to eastern culture/created first real expansive empire |
| William Shakespeare | greatest writer of all time/plays still performed today |
| George Washington | most influential politician of the west/1st president |
| Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations |
| Abraham Lincoln | does not allow the nation to divide during the Civil War |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | believed that there was a galaxy and solar system and the planet revolved around the sun |
| Albert Einstein | Theory of Relativity - new definition of space and time |
