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12 Cards in this Set
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1453 Printing Press |
Led to dispersion of information for years to come |
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1492 Columbus Sailed |
Columbus colonized the americas funded by the Spanish crown |
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1517 Martin Luther |
Luther wrote the 95 theses, founded Lutheranism |
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1588 Spanish Armada |
England defeats the Spanish Armada on August 8th, 1588. The led to the downfall of Spain |
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1598 Edict of Nantes |
Granted religious freedom in France |
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1618 30 years War |
1st phase: Bohemian, Defenstration of Prague (thrown into ****) 2nd phase: Danish, hapsburgs win 3rd phase: Swedish, tie. FRENCH SIDE WITH PROTESTANTS, alliance of convenience. 4th phase: Hapsburgs win |
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1648 Peace of Westaphalia |
The end of the 30 years war, break up/fall of the Holy Roman Empire, and the end of Religious wars |
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1713 Peace of Utrecht |
End of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713) . Forced Louie XIV to understand the Spanish & French crown would not be united, while Loui's grandson Philip to remain as Spanish king |
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1792 French Revolution |
1789 Tennis Court Oath, 1793 execution of Louis XVI, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robespierre. 1793-94 Reign of Terror, guillotine |
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1914-1918 Great War begins (WWI) |
Beginning of pessimism, trigger for the Nazi movement |
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1815 End of Napoleon Wars |
Metternich, Congress of Vienna (conservative) |
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1939-1945 World War 2 starts |
Exsistentialism, Freud Sigmund, Surrealism- Salvador Dali / new radical ideas emerge due to the destruction of belif systems and culture consequently from the chaos of war |
