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62 Cards in this Set
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Vasco da Gama
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-portugese navigator
-in 1948 landed on the Malabar coast -in 1502 brought armis back and a war btwn the portugese and arab merchants |
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Columbus
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-landed on islands known as west indies
-spanish sailor -got permission from queenIsabella of Castille -first voyage was 1492 |
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Magellan
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-spanish explorer
-in1520 founded a southwestern passage from the atlantic to the pacific and founded the Phillipine islands -circumnavigated globe for 1st time |
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Cabot
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-english explorer, founded the white sea in 1553
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Cartier
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-french explorer, tried to find a northwest passage to pacific
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Malabar Coast
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-southwest coast of India
-world of arab commerce -commercial population with heterogenious religious background |
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Goa
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-port city on malabar coas
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African slave trade
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-with new international trade, the slave trade from africa increased
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Potosi
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-1545 founded the Potosi silver mines in Peru
-they financed projects of King of spain |
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Fuggers of Augsbllrg
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-established new cloth called fustian
-began to deal in spices, silks, and other eastern goods obtained at Venice -invested in mining -became bankers to habsburgs |
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Medici of Florence
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-important and influentiial italian political and economic family
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Price revolution
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-the steady rise in prices, which is to say the steady decline in value of a given unit of money
-caused by increased population |
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Commercial Revolution
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-refered to the economic changes in Europe
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Bank of Amsterdam
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-accepted depositors that would earn interest and be withdrawn at will
-deposits flowed into the bank from all countries which enabled it to make low-interest loans that financed new commercial activities |
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domestic system
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-system where workers make products in their own homes
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yeomanry
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-a class of small freeholders deveoped between the landed gentry and the rural poor
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bourgeoisie
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-middle classes
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gentry
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-upper or ruling class; aristocracy
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English Poor Law
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-begging was a public nuisance so the poor should be segregated in workhouses or hospices from the rest of society
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colleges in France
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-combined the work of the English grammar school with what corresponed to the first year or two of university work at Oxford or Cambridge
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hidalgos
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-lesser nobles, aspiring to positions in church or government
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robot
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-the people who owed unpaid and forced labor three or four days a week
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Philip II
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-spainish king
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Mary Tudor
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-"bloody Mary"
-daughter of Henry VIII -wife of phillip of Spain II |
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Velazquez
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-spainish painter
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El Greco
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-spainish painter
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Lope de Vega
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-wrote 200 dramas
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Suarez
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-Spanish theologian and philosopher
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Duke of Alva
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-Spainish general who suppressed a protestant rebellion in the netherlands
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Mary Stuart
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-Mary queen of scots
-beheaded after plotting to kill her cousin elizabeth I |
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Murillo
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-spainish painter
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Battle of Lepanto
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-1571 spainish help to win great naval battle against the turks
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siglo de oro
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-the golden age of spain
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Escorial
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-Phillip II new residence
-expressed in solid stone its creator's politicl and religious detemination |
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Revolt of the Netherlands
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-political and religious
-wanted check the spanish influence in the netherlands -asked Phillip not to have the inquisition go to the netherlands, they were refused and rebelled |
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Morisco
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-converted muslims
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Council of Troubles
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-alva's council that ruled on cases
-called council of blood |
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Dutch East India Co.
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-trading company for england and the dutch
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Catherine de' Medici
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-Henry II's widow
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Duke of Guise
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-catholic party chief
-assasinated in 1589 |
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Henry of Navarre
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-aka Henry IV, ruled as a french king
-first of the Bourbon dynasty -one of most popular and amiably remembered of all french kings |
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Admiral de Coligny
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-led the Huguenots
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Jean Bodin
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-political philosopher
-1st to develop theory of sovereignty |
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Richelieu
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-politique
-worked to further the interests of the state -worked to strentghen the economy, draw impoverished gentlemen into trade, and founded and supported many commercial companies on the Anglo Dutch model |
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Marie de' Medici
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- widow of Henry IV
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Louis XIII
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-Marie de'Medici's son
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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
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-thousands of Huguenots were dragged from their beds after midnights and murdered
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Gallican liberties
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-did not believe the pope ruled over them, only the state could control what they did
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Huguenots
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-french calvinists
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politiques
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- the politicals
-group who concluded that too much was being made of religion -believed people lived primarily in state not church |
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"Paris is worth a Mass
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-said by Henry Navarre
-when he forswore his faith to take french throne |
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Edict of Nantes
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-Henry IV
-granted every noble or seigneur the right to hold a protestant service in their own home -promised Protestants would enjoy same rights as catholics -gave protestants their own mean of defense |
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parlements
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-courts of law created by english for different areas
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Gustavus Adolphus
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-king of sweden
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Duke of Wallenstein
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-commisioned by emperor ferdinand
-raised one army -helped defeat kind of denmark |
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King Christian of Denmark
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-in 1621 overtook lead in Protestant affairs
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Bohemia
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-1st phase of the four phases of the war fought here
-1618-1625 |
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defenestration of Prague
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-Bohemians revolting against ppl from the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor, and threw them out the window
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battle of White Mountain
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-battle in the early part of the 30 years war
-Sapnish overwhelmed the Bohemians |
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Edict of Restitution
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-1629 the emperor declared all church territories secularized since 1552 automatically restored to the Catholic Church
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Peace of Westphalia
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-represented a general checkmate to the counter reformation in germany
-granted each German state to choose it own rligiion |
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raison d'etat
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-justification of overriding state power
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