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Why were regional trading patterns important about 1500 A.D. ?
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The exchange of products and ideas
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What technological and scientific advancements were exchanged by about 1500 A.D. ?
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Paper, compass, silk, porcelain (China) Textiles (India) Numeral system, astronomy, mathematics, medicine (Middle East)
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What products were traded on the Silk Routes?
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Paper, compass, silk, porcelain
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What products were traded on Trans-Saharan routes?
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Gold and Salt
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What products were traded on South China Sea routes?
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Spices
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What products were traded on Indian Ocean routes?
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Spices and Textiles
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What products were traded on European routes?
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Products and ideas from Asia
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A humanist would most likely tell someone to study what?
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poetry, philosophy, and history
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Who was a well known Renaissance author of sonnets?
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Shakespeare
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Michelangelo painted what?
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The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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The movement of humanism studied the ancient cultures of where?
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Greece and Rome
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What were the approximate dates of the Renaissance?
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1350 -- 1600 A.D.
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Where did the Renaissance begin?
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Florence, Italy
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What does Renaissance mean?
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Rebirth
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What are the characteristics of Renaissance art?
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1. life-like gestures and actions
2. religious and secular themes 3. human emotions and feelings |
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Leonardo de Vinci painted what?
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The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
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Who best represented the humanist philosophy of the Renaissance?
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Erasmus
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The Songhai Empire traded what?
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Gold and Salt
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Which Chinese goods were desired by Europeans?
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Porcelain, Paper, and Silk
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Martin Luther's religious views were what?
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1. Salvation by faith alone.
2. Bible was ultimate authority. 3. All humans equal before God. |
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John Calvin's religious views were what?
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1. Predestination
2. Faith revealed by living a righteous life. 3. Work ethic. |
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King Henry VIII's religious views included what?
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Dismissed the authority of the Pope in Rome.
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Queen Elizabeth I was associated with the __________ Church.
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Anglican
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Queen Elizabeth I's rule was known for victory over the __________ in 1588.
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Spanish Armada
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King Henry VIII _____________ and remarried, then broke with the Catholic church.
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divorced
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John Calvin believed in predestination and expanded the __________________.
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protestant movement
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After breaking with the Catholic church, King Henry VIII formed the _________ of __________.
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Church of England
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The Catholic monarch (Henry IV) granted Protestant Huguenots freedom of worship with what?
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The Edict of Nantes
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The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was founded to spread _____________ around the world.
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Catholic doctrine
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The ________________ was used to reinforce Catholic Doctrine during the Catholic Counter Reformation.
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Inquisition
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The Thirty Years' War was fought in Germany between the _________ and __________ and resulted in devastating loss.
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Protestants and Catholics.
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In England, the rise of Reformation contributed to the growth of ______________.
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Capitalism
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___________, a French theologian, advocated that God had preordained the fate of all people (predestination).
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John Calvin
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___________ expressed the beliefs that 1) Salvation by faith alone; 2) Bible is the ultimate authority; 3) All humans are equal before God.
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Martin Luther
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The Anglican Church became the national church throughout the British Isles under what monarch?
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Elizabeth I
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The ____________ was a conflict between Protestants and Catholics.
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Thirty Years' War
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Ignatius Loyola established what order of monks?
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Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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Cardinal Richelieu changed the focus of the Thirty Years' War from a religious conflict to a __________ conflict.
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Political
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The church court established to reinforce Catholic doctrine was the ______________?
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Inquisition
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Freedom of worship was granted to the Huguenots through the _______________?
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Edict of Nantes
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The primary reason that the North German princes supported Martin Luther was for ____________?
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economic reasons
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The group formed to reform the Catholic Church was the _________________.
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Council of Trent
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What factors contributed to the discovery of lands in the Western Hemisphere?
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Economic competition between European empires.
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Which explorer was from Portugal who, in 1497, hoped to sail around Africa and reach India.
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Vasco da Gama
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European migration to the Americas resulted in _____________?
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The demise of the Aztec, Mayan, and Incan Empires.
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The impact of the Columbian Exchange included __________________?
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The death of many American Indians from smallpox.
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Ferdinand Magellan explored for _____________.
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Spain
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Which explorer received credit for establishing the first permanent colonies in the Americas?
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Columbus
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The second person to circumnavigate the globe was _______________.
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Drake
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Where were the majority of 17th century African slaves sent in the New World?
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Central America and Carribean.
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What were the main reasons for exploring during the Age of Discovery?
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Gold, God, and Glory.
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The Ottoman Empire spread to where?
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The Balkan Peninsula
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Istanbul, formerly named Constantinople, was the capital of the ________________.
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Ottoman Empire
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The Taj Mahal was a contribution of the ____________ Empire.
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Mughal Indian
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Military leaders, called shoguns, ruled ______________.
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Japan
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The West African empires traded slaves and what other goods?
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Gold and Salt
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What is mercantilism?
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The idea that a nation's power is related to its wealth and needs a favorable balance of trade with its colonies.
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With the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the capital city of Constantinople was renamed _____________.
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Istanbul
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Which was the largest Muslim Empire in the 1500s?
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Ottoman
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The two empires that were isolationist were ________________.
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Ming China and Japan
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In Japan, the Dutch were allowed to trade from where?
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Nagasaki
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William Harvey discovered circulation of the _________.
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blood
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Isaac Newton formulated the law of ______________.
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gravity
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Johannes Kepler discovered ______________ motion.
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planetary
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Nicolaus Copernicus developed the _________________.
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Heliocentric Theory
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Galileo Galilei used the __________ to support the heliocentric theory.
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Telescope
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The _______________ takes its name from a series of European monarchs who increased the power of their central governments.
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Age of Absolutism
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3 ways that express the importance of the Scientific Revolution are
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1) Emphasis on reason and systematic observation of nature.
2) Formulation of the scientific method 3) Expansion orf scientific knowledge |
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2 characteristics of absolute monarchs are
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centralization of power, concelp of rule by divine right
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Two absolute monarchs: _________ - palace of Versailles as a symbol of royal power.
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Louis XIV of France
Peter the Great of Russia |
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Political ____________ rests on the principle that government derives power from the consent of the governed.
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Democracy
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The foundations of __________ rights include the jury trial, the Magna Carta, and common law.
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English
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The English Civil War and Glorious Revolution promoted the development of the rights of Englishmen through which events?
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Oliver Cromwell, Charles I execution, The restoration of Charles II, Development of political parties, Increase of parliamentary power, English Bill of Rights
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___________ thinkers believed that human progress was possible through the application of scientific knowledge and reason to issues of law and government.
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Enlightenment
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The enlightenment applied reason to the _____________, as well as to the rest of the natural world, stimulated ___________ tolerance, and fueled _____________ revolutions around the world.
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human world, religious, democratic.
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____________, through the Leviathan, explained that humans exist in a primitive "state of nature" and consent to government for self-protection.
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Thomas Hobbes
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_______________'s Two Treatise on Government stated that people are sovereign and consent to government for protection of natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
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John Locke
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_____________'s "Candide" stated that the best form of government includes separation of church and state.
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Voltaire
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In __________'s work, The Social Contract, government is a contract between rulers and the people.
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Rousseau
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The philosopher ______________ believed religious toleration should triumph over religious fanaticiam; separation of church and state.
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Voltaire
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___________ was a German Baroque composer during the Age of Reason.
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Bach
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____________ was one classical music composer during the Enlightenment/Age of Reason.
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Mozart
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_____________ wrote Don Quixote, which was the first modern novel in Europe
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Cervantes
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What improved technologies that were important to European economies during the Enlightenment.
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1) All-weather roads improved year-round transport and trade.
2) New designs in farm tools increased productivity. 3) Improvements in ship design lowered costs of transport. |
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The ____________ was a political prison for individuals who opposed the absolutism of the monarchy, and its fall was a symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.
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Bastille
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Name 3 outcomes of the French Revolution.
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1) The execution of Louis XVI
2) War with neighboring countries 3) The rise of Napoleon |
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__________ is closely associated with the belief that government should be a contract made by the people.
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John Locke
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_______________ is known as a pioneer of the Scientific Revolution for his discovery of planetary motion.
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Johannes Kepler
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Peter the Great was a monarch of __________________.
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Russia
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The principle that government derives power from the consent of the governed is represented through ________________.
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Democracy
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The development of the rights of Englishmen included the establishment of ____________.
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common law
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The enlightenment thinker who wrote The Social Conract
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Rousseau
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Application of Enlightenment thinking include what two ideas?
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1) Reason was applied to the human world, not just the natural world.
2) Religious tolerance continued. |
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The first reigning monarch to face a public trial and execution was ________________.
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Charles I
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The separation of powers found in the US Constitution comes from writings of which Enlightenment thinker?
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Montesquieu
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