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32 Cards in this Set
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Prince Henry the Navigator |
Leader of the Portuguese explorers as they went into the South Atlantic |
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Fall of Constantinople |
Ottomans captured the capital of the eastern Roman empire |
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Columbian Exchange |
The exchange of valuable goods and resources from each continent |
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Peter the Great |
A tsar of Russia and is best known for his reforms that established Russia as a great nation |
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Frederick William I of Russia |
The elector of Brandenburg put emphasis on army |
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Francis I |
King of Valois dynasty France, hated the Habsburg Emperor Charles V and built largest court in Europe |
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Concordat of Bologna |
French could gain rights to appoint bishops and abbots as a last resort to make money. Made between Francis I and Pope Leo X |
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Henry II |
Succeeded his dad Francis I, signed Treaty of Canteau/Cambresis which ended Habsburg Valois wars(which Spain won) |
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Catherine de Medici |
Wife of Henry II, she allied with militant Catholics to take out other religions in France |
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Henry IV |
Henry of Navarre converts to Catholicism and dons this name |
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Edict of Nantes |
Guaranteed civil and religious freedoms of Hugeonots |
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Cardinal Richelieu |
A prime minister Reno centralized the government |
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Louis XIV |
Very absolutist leader, ushered golden age of art and literature, but unfortunately used a lot of money for this |
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Divine Right Theory of Rule |
States that God chose the king and basically everything the King does is correct |
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Jean Baptiste Colbert |
The finance minister of Louis XIV; extended administrative, financial, military, and religious control over the state |
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Commercial Revolution |
Huge profits from banking families like Medicis gave enough money to spend on travel and exploration |
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Henry VIII |
Made decisions with parliament that led to English Reformation because he needed a workaround to get male heirs |
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Elizabeth I |
Last and greatest of Their Monarchs, ushered in the great Elizabethan Age of Europe |
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The Glorious Revolution |
A collection of processes that overall increased power of Parliament over monarchy |
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John Locke |
Philosopher, father of liberalism, and believed in the 'Blank Slate' theory |
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Open Field System |
This system divided land to be cultivated by peasants |
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Enclosure Movement |
Due to farming improvements, landowners began enclosing their property |
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Mercantilism |
The theory that trade generates profits |
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Adam Smith |
A professor that criticized mercantilism |
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Francis Bacon |
English thinker who invented the inductive or experimental method |
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René Descartes |
French philosopher who believed that you should doubt and question everything |
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Nicolaus Copernicus |
Polish astronomer who introduced the heliocentric concept of the universe |
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Galileo Galilei |
Validated Copernican theory through telescopes |
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Johannes Kepler |
German who plotted elliptic orbits of the planet |
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Deism |
Belief that God was a cosmic clockmaker who created universe but does not intervene in |
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Scientific Revolution |
An age of learning and discovery that redefined astronomy and physics |
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Crop Rotation |
Harvesting different crops and different times of the year to keep the land arable |
