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US Senator, Jefferson's VP, killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel
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Aaron Burr
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British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Napoleonic era, generally regarded as one of the best PMs
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William Pitt the Younger
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German princess, ruled Russia by usurping her husband, expanded and modernized Russia. Had an affair with a Polish noble who she made king of Poland.
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Catherine the Great
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Began as Duke of Parma, then King of Naples and Sicily and then finally as the King of Spain, unified and centralized Spanish governance, curtailed the Inquisition and the Jesuits
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Charles III
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Wrote the Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Emile, etc. French Enlightenment figure. Left his children in an orphanage.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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French Enlightenment thinker and satirist. Wrote Candide.
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Voltaire
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The Wealth of Nations, Theory of Moral Sentiments. Those who quote the former to support capitalism should read the latter before citing this Scottish author.
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Adam Smith
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Writer, newspaper editor, ambassador to France, US founding father, scientist
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Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor of the cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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English-American radical and revolutionary, author of Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
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Child prodigy who died at the age of 35 but managed to compose over 600 symphonies, operas, etc
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Prior to becoming the Russian Tsar, he worked in a Dutch shipyard. Modernized the Russian state and established St Petersburg as a window to the West.
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Peter the Great
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The father of immunology, he developed the first small pox vaccine
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Edward Jenner
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An important figure in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, he was eventually executed.
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Maximillen Robespierre
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Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of career in St Petersburg and Berlin. Made several important discoveries in calculus and geometry
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Leonhard Euler
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First president of the United States
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George Washington
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His Critique of Pure Reason was an attempt to refute the skepticism of David Hume. Residents of Konigsberg set their clocks according to his daily walk.
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Immanuel Kant
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Wrote the US Declaration of Independence and was the third US president.
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Thomas Jefferson
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His invention (or more accurately improvement) of the steam engine kick off the Industrial Revolution
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James Watt
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HMS Endeavor and Discovery, mapped much of the Pacific Ocean before being killed in Hawaii
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Captain James Cook
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Perhaps the best skeptical philosopher. He wrote A Treatise of Human Nature
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David Hume
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Led Sweden during the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) in which he pillaged his way through central and eastern Europe. In the end he was defeated, Sweden declined as a great power and Prussia and Russia rose to take its place
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Charles XII
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The first monarch of the new Kingdom of Great Britain (1707) as opposed to a joint monarch of England and Scotland.
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Queen Anne
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Generally considered the first prime minister of Great Britain serving from 1721 - 1742
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Robert Walpole
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The Methodist church is founded by these two brothers
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John and Charles Wesley
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Reigning over 60 years, this emperor expanded China and oversaw a general period of prosperity
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Qianlong Emperor
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A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he modernized the Prussian state ruling for over 40 years.
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Frederick II
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Founded the first Saudi state
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Mohammed Ibn Saud
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Quebec City is conquered by the British. Both French and British commanders die in battle.
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Montcalm and Wolfe
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Pacific explorer finishes charting the Pacific coastline in North America and Australia. He has several places named after him including a city and an island in Canada
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George Vancouver
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