Global Studies Midterm People to Know
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- Franz Ferdinand
- man who's assassination was the "spark" for World War I
- Henry Bessemer
- inexpensive method for making steel quicker and more durable****
- Alexander II
- modernized Russia while being a conservative as well as a dictator
- Rousseau
- sovereignty; right to vote
- Charles Goodyear
- vulcanization; made rubber more durable/suitable/less sticky
- Montesquieu
- checks and balances; three brances of governmetn
- Garibaldi
- tricked into leading a war against Italy, eventually led to reunification of Italy
- Charles Darwin
- famous for theories of evolution
- James Watt
- invented steam engine
- Charles Townsend
- crop rotation
- Samuel Morse
- invented telegraph
- James Hargreaves
- invented spinning jenny; mass production of thread
- Thomas Edison
- first electric generating system
- Voltaire
- freedom of speech
- Eli Whitney
- invented the cotton gin
- Metternich
- chairmen of Congress of Vienna; Austrian prince
- Napoleon
- military general who seized control of France and became dictator
- Victor Emanuel II
- King of Sardinia; unified Italy
- Thomas Hobbes
- believed in absolute monarchy; "only the strong will survive unless a ruler intervened"
- John Locke
- natural rights
- John McAdam
- blacktop
- Marat
- Jacobin doctor; part of the Reign of Terror; assassinated
- Robespierre
- Jacobin who ruled during the Reign of Terror; guillotined millions of people
- Henry Ford
- invented the assembly line to mass produce cars
- Karl Marx
- father of Communism
- Diderot
- made encyclopedia that spread of ideas that led to American Revolution
- Cyrus Field
- communications logistics
- Adam Smith
- father of Capitalism
- Cyrus McCormick
- power reaper
- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
- local priest who led Mexican Revolution and was violently executed
- Hohenzollern
- Prussian/German dynasty
- Iessandro Volta
- battery
- Alexander Graham Bell
- inventor of the telephone, the first voice communication device
- Henry VIII
- created hus own church because he wanted offspring and his wives weren't giving him a son; daughter=Elizabeth I
- Louis XVI
- was beheaded along with his wife Marie Antoinette; ruled during French Revolution
- Otto Von Bismarck
- unified Germany; wanted to expand and unify Prussia and make it part of Germany through war
- Robert Fulton
- steamboat
- Edmond Cartwright
- invented power loom