| A | B |
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| Issac Newton | scientist who discovered the laws of motion and gravity |
| Rousseau | Enlightment thinker who championed freedom and wrote The Social Contract in 1762 |
| Catherine the Great | Russian rulerwho took steps to reform and modernize Russia |
| Montesquieu | French writer who devoted himself to the study of government and political liberty; and believed in seperation of powers |
| Voltaire | writer who fought for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief and freedom of speech |
| John Locke | philospher who wrote about government and natural rights |
| Galileo Galilei | scientist who was forced by the Catholic Church to take back scientific ideas that disagreed with the church's views |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | wrote about women's rights |
