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Period: Jan 1, 1543 to
Timline of Revolutionaries
Key Revolutionaries in the past 500 years, who have had significant impacts on movements or started movements. -
Period: Jan 1, 1543 to
Scientific Revolution
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Apr 23, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
- "His masterpiece, 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, appeared in 1543. As Copernicus had feared, his views did stir up controversy, but the new astronomy did not become a passionate issue until the early seventeenth century.."-Perry 239 2. January 17, 2012 3. Copernicus was a polish astronomer who is given credit with beginning the Scientific Revolution. He claimed the earth orbits around a centrally located sun. For about 2000 years it had been believed the earth was the center.
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Galileo Galilei
- "For Galileo, the universe was a "grand book which . . . is written in the language of mathematics and its characters are tringles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.""-Perry 240 2. January 17, 2012 3. Galileo Galilei was a revolutionary in the scientific community in his time. He disproved the idea of geocentrism, perfected the telescope, and creating a military compus.
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John Locke
- "In the 'Two Treatises of Government', Locke maintained that human beings are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property, and they establish the state to protect these rights."-Perry 251 2. January 26, 2012 3. John Locke was an English philosopher and also one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers. He revised the 'Second Treatise of Government', where he talked about how humans are born with natural rights and everyone is born equal.
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The Enslavement of Olaudah Equiano
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Olaudah Equiano
- "I was immediately handled and tossed up to see if I were found by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me." - Olaudah Equiano 2. January 19, 2012 3. Olaudah was a slave who was taken from his home in Africa. He was a slave for many years until he bought his freedom in 1765. He wrote an autobiography about his life as a slave, which is what the quote is from. Olaudah was an activist against slavery.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
- "Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety..."-Mary Wollstonecraft 2. February 9, 2012 3. Mary was a feminist British writer, who was against slavery and fought for the rights of women. She believes men are corrupt because they lack sensibility and need to show respect more.
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United States v. The Amistad
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Sengbe Pieh
- "What kind of a place is this where you almost mean what you say? Where laws almost work? How can you live like that?" (movie quote from Joseph Cinque) 2. January 19, 2012 3. Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque, was a slave who was taken from Africa and put on to a ship called the Amistad. Sengbe led a revolt on the ship and the slaves were able to take control over the ship. He also was a leader in the Amistad vs US court case.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- "In February 1848, they (Marx and Engels) published the 'Communist Manifesto', which called for a working-class revolution to overthrow the capitalist system."-Perry 354 2. February 23, 2012 3. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were both revolutionaries for the system of socialism. Marx had a such a strong belief in socialism that in 1849 he was forced to leave France.
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Négritude Movement
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African-American Civil Rights Movement
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Aimé Césaire
- "And I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance" Aimé Césaire 2. April 17, 2012 3. Aimé Césaire was a French poet who was one of the starters of the Negritude movement. In the Disclosure on Colonialism he talks about the negative affects of the coloniztion of colonies through poetic writing.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life.(Speech) 2. April 19, 2012 3. Martin Luther King Jr., might perhaps be the most known revolutionary of all time. MLK Jr. was an activist for African American rights. He was a preacher who went throughout the country giving speeches on how African Americans deserve equal rights.
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Mohamed Bouazizi
- "My son set himself on fire for dignity," (quote from article)
- April 19, 2012 3. Mohamed Bouazizi was just a regular man in Tunisia when the govenment pushed him past his limit. An officer took Mohamed's scale from him while he was arguing with a officer. When Mohamed went to the capital building he was given no response, so consequently he lit himself on fire in front of the building. This is a man who was willing to do whatever he could to stand up for what he believed.
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Tunisian Revolution
*Notice this Revolution began the day after Mohamed killed himself.
