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9 Cards in this Set
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new model army |
-composed of primarly of more extreme puritains belieiving they were doing battle for the lord |
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janissaries |
-christian boys who had been taken from their parents and been converted to muslim -subjected to milatary discipline |
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Tsar |
-first one was Ivan the terrible (1533- 1584) -expanded the territories of Russia eastward after westward expansion -crushed the power of the russian nobility |
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Romanovs |
-ruled over Russia, reigning from 1613 until the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II on March 15, 1917, as a result of the February Revolution |
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puritanism |
-believed they were doing battle for the lord
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petiton of rights |
-specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing (breaking laws) - passed June 7 1628 -restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and the use of martial law. |
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oliver cromwell |
-group leader of the new model army -he was determined to achieve victory from an army POV -died in 1658 |
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bill of rights (England) |
-wiliam and mary accepted the throne and the declaration -affirmed rights to make laws and levy taxes and made it possible for king to oppose or do without parliament |
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Glorious Revolution |
- made to overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau |
