| A | B |
| Nicholas Copernicus | heliocentric theory |
| Johannes Kepler | discovered planetary motion |
| Galileo Galilei | used telescope to prove heliocentric theory |
| Sir Isaac Newton | used scientific method to discover laws of gravity |
| calculus | Sir Isaac Newton |
| planets move in ellipses around the sun | Johannes Kepler |
| William Harvey | discovered how blood circulates in humans |
| Thomas Hobbes | man is basically bd and needs a central authority to manage behaviour |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| Two Treatises on Government | John Locke |
| John Locke | man is naturally sovereign |
| John Locke | natural rights of life, liberty, and property |
| Baron de Montesuieu | Separation of powers of government into 3 branches |
| Spirit of Laws | Baron de Montesquieu |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | government is a contract between people who give up their individual rights to the government |
| The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Voltaire | religious toleration will triumph over religious fanaticism |
| separation of church and state | Voltaire |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Declaration of Independence | American document which incorporated Locke's natural rights |
| U.S. Constitution | American document that incorporated ideas of Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | German composer best known for Baroque fugues |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Austrian composer who composede the Requiem Mass |
| Eugene Delacroix | French artist who painted action filled paintings in the Romantic style |
| Miguel de Cervantes | author of Don Quioxte, one of the first novels |