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Inca
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Who:The Inca were warriors with a strong and powerful army. they became the largest Native American society. The
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Maya
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Who:Mesoamerican civilization
When:(c. 2000 BC to 250 AD) Significance:noted for the only known fully developed written language fully as well as it's arts, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. |
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Aztec
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Who: people who settled in a valley in central Mexico
When:14th,15th,16th centuries Significance:the Aztec are best known for human sacrifices |
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Chaco Canyon
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What:a place located in northwestern New Mexico
When: 1000BC Significance: first people-hunter gatherers: the Archaic |
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Woodland Indians
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When: 1000 BC until 1000 AD Significance:noted for the cultivation of crops in the fertile valleys of North Georgia |
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Mobile Societies(natives)
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When:1.8 million years ago Significance: |
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Agriculture(natives)
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Leif Erickson
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Who:explorer who is regarded as the first European to land in North America
When: (c. 970 – c. 1020) Significance:known for Discovering Vinland |
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Who:)- infante (prince) of the Kingdom of Portugal
When:- 4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460) Significance:important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, |
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Christopher Columbus
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Who:- a navigator, colonizer, and explorer
When:- (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506 Significance:- four voyages of exploration and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola,- Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans Occupation--Maritime explorer for the Crown of Castile |
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Who:. became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean- did not complete the entire voyage, being killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines
When:- c. 1480 – April 27, 1521)- Significance:- known for Captained the first circumnavigation expedition |
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The Conquistadors
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Who:soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain
When:15th through the 19th centuries Significance:Europe's discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The leaders of the conquest of the Aztec Empire were Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado. Francisco Pizarro led the conquest of the Incan Empire. |
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Cortes
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Who was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
When 1485 – December 2, 1547) Significance brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. |
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Fransisco Pizarro
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Who:was a Spanish conquistador,
When:c. 1471 or 1476 – 26 June 1541) Significance:conqueror of the Incan Empire and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of Peru. |
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Ordinance of Discovery( Aztecs)
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Catholic Missionaries(natives)
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St. Augustine 1565
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What:is a city in the northeast section of Florida and the county seat of St. Johns County, Florida, United States.[
When:Founded in 1565 Significance:St. Augustine lies in a region of Florida known as "The First Coast", |
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Ecomiendas
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What:is a labor system that was employed by the Spanish crown during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines
When:encomienda system began as early as 1510 Significance:the crown granted a person a specified number of natives for whom they were to take responsibility. |
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Pueblo Revolt
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What:was an uprising of many pueblos of the Pueblo people against Spanish colonization of the Americas in the New Spain province of New Mexico.
When:1680 Significance-Date August 10–21, 1680 Location New Mexico Result Decisive Pueblo victory |
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Mestizo
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Who-are people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry.
When-originated circa 1582 Significance-Mestizos do not appear in large numbers in official censuses until the second half of the 17th century, when a sizable and stable community of mixed-race people with no claims to being either Amerindian or Spanish appeared, although, of course, a large population of biological mestizos had already existed for over a century in Mexico |
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John Cabot
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Who:was an Italian navigator and explorer
When:c. 1450 – c. 1499) Significance:1497 discovery of North America is commonly held to be the first European voyage to the continent since Norse exploration of the Americas in the early eleventh century |
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Richard Hakulyt
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Who:an English writer
When:(c. 1552 or 1553 – 23 November 1616) Significance:He is principally remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1598–1600) |
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Doctrine of Predestination
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What- is a doctrine of Calvinism which deals with the question of the control God exercises over the world.
When-(1561) SignificanceThe second use of the word "predestination" applies this to the salvation, and refers to the belief that God appointed the eternal destiny of some to salvation by grace, while leaving the remainder to receive eternal damnation for all their sins, even their original sin. |
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The English Reformation
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What-was the series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England first broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
When-16th-century Significance-These events were, in part, associated with the wider process of the European Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement which affected the practice of Christianity across most of Europe during this period. |
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John Calvin
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Who-was an influential French theologian and pastor
When(10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) Significance-He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530 |
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West India Company
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What-was a chartered company (known as the "GWC") of Dutch merchants.
When-(1567-1647?) Significance-On June 3, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies (meaning the Caribbean) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over the African slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America. |
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Who-was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer
When(c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) Significance-largely known for popularising tobacco in England. |
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Roanoke
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James I
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Who-was King of Scots as James VI from 1567 to 1625, and King of England and Ireland as James I from 1603 to 1625.
When(19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625 Significance-He became King of Scots as James VI on 24 July 1567, |
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Jamestown
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What:located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony
When:founded on May 14, 1607.[ Significance:It is the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States of America, |
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John Smith
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Who:was an English soldier, explorer, and author
When:(c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Significance:the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Virginia Indian[1] girl Pocahontas during an altercation with the Powhatan Confederacy and her father, Chief Powhatan |
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Puritan Sepratists
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Elizabeth the I
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Who-was Queen regnant of England and Queen regnant of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death
When-(7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) Significance-One of her first moves as queen was to support the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. |
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Coureurs De Bois
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Who-was an individual who engaged in the fur trade without permission from the French authorities.
When-during the late 17th century and early 18th century Significance-Later, a limited number of permits were issued to coureurs des bois who became known as voyageurs. |
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New Amsterdam
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What-was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New Netherland. It later became New York City.
When-(1614 - 1674) Significance-A year later in 1625, construction of a citadel comprising Fort Amsterdam was commenced on the southern tip of nearby Manhattan Island and the first settlers were moved there from Governors Island.[1] |
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Lord Del Lawar
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Who-was the Englishman
When-(July 9, 1577 – June 7, 1618) Significance-after whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, an American Indian people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named. |
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Tobacco
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What-s an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana.
When-1559 Significance-can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, it is used in some medicines.[1] It is most commonly used as a recreational drug, and is a valuable cash crop for countries such as Cuba, China and United States. |
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Virgina Company
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What-refers collectively to a pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I
When-10 April 1606[ Significance-The charters of the companies called for a local council for each, but with ultimate authority residing with the King through the Council of Virginia[5] in England. |
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Headright System
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What-is a legal grant of land to settlers
When-starting in 1618 Significance-Headrights are most notable for their role in the expansion of the thirteen British colonies in North America; the Virginia Company of London gave head to settlers, and the Plymouth Company followed suit |
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POwhatans
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Who-is believed to have originated as the name of the village or town that Wahunsunacawh came from.
When-may, 1777. Significance-Powhatan County and its county seat at Powhatan, Virginia were honorific names established years later, in locations west of the area populated by the Powhatan peoples. |
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Maryland and the Calverts
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What-was an English colony in North America
When-from 1632 until 1776, Significance-when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland. |
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Proprietary Rule
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What-was unpopular in South Carolina almost from the start,
When-1729. Significance-hoped to monopolize fundamental constitutions of Carolina as a basis for government. |
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Toleration Acts
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What-was a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians.
When-April 21, 1649 Significance-it was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies and created the first legal limitations on hate speech in the world. |
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Bacon's Rebellion
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What- It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part;
When-1676 Significance-The uprising was a protest against Native American raids on the frontier; some historians also consider it a power play by Bacon against the Royal Governor of Virginia, William Berkeley, and his policies of favoring his own court |
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Plymouth Plantation
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What-Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford,
When-Written between 1620 and 1647 Significance-, the journal describes the story of the Pilgrims from 1608, when they settled in the Netherlands through the 1620 Mayflower voyage, until the year 1647 |
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William Bradford
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Who-was an English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts,
When-(March 19, 1590 – May 9, 1657) Significance-was elected thirty times to be the Governor after John Carver died.Bradford is credited as the first to proclaim what popular American culture now views as the first Thanksgiving. |
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Colonial Currency
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What-regulated colonial paper money.
When-1690 Significance-There were three general types of money in the colonies of British America: commodity money, specie (coins), and paper money.[ |
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Theocratic Society
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What-is a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler,[
When-was in 1622, Significance-or in a higher sense, a form of government in which a state is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
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Anne Hutchinson
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Who-was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands and the unauthorized minister of a dissident church discussion group.
When-(baptized July 20, 1591[1][2] – August 20, 1643) Significance-Hutchinson held Bible meetings for women that soon appealed to men as well. Eventually, she went beyond Bible study to proclaim her own theological interpretations of sermons. |
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Pequot War
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What-was an armed conflict between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies with Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes) against the Pequot tribe.
When-1634-1638 Significance-result was the elimination of the Pequot as a viable polity in what is present-day Southern New England. |
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King Philips War
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What-was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies
When-in 1675–1676 Significance-it was one of the bloodiest and costliest wars in the history of North America.[4] More than half of New England's ninety towns were assaulted by Native American warriors.[5] |
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The Narragansetts
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Who-a Algonquian Native American tribe from Rhode Island.
When-1524 Significance-They were historically one of the leading tribes of New England |
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English Civil War
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What-was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists.
When-(1642–1651) Significance-The Civil War led to the trial and execution of Charles I, the exile of his son, Charles II, and replacement of English monarchy with first, the Commonwealth of England (1649–53), and then with a Protectorate (1653–59), under Oliver Cromwell's personal rule. |
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Middle Colonies
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What-known as the Bread Colonies or the Breadbasket Colonies for the region's production of wheat, grain, and oats
When-around 1664, Significance-The colony's land was periodically granted to various proprietors and split into the Province of New York and the Province of Pennsylvania. |
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Charter of Liberties
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What-also called the Coronation Charter, was a written proclamation by Henry I of England,
When-issued upon his accession to the throne in 1100. Significance-The document addressed abuses of royal power by his predecessor, his brother William Rufus, as perceived by the nobility, specifically the over-taxation of the barons, the abuse of vacant sees, and the practices of simony and pluralism. |
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Black Codes
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Holy Experiment
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James Oglethorpe
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Who-was a British general, a philanthropist,
When-(22 December 1696 – 30 June 1785) Significance- was the founder of the colony of Georgia.was the founder of the colony of Georgia. |
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Mercantilism
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The NAvigation Act
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Sir Edmond Andros
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Who-was an early colonial English governor in North America
When-(December 6, 1637 – February 24, 1714) Significance-head of the short-lived Dominion of New England. |
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The Glorious Revolution
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William Bradford
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CAmbridge Agreement
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Convenenat Theology
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Halfway Covenant
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Thomas Hooker
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Who-was a prominent Puritan religious and colonial leader,
When-(July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647 Significance-founded the Colony of Connecticut-known as an outstanding speaker and a leader of universal Christian suffrage. |
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Saybrook Platform
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Joint Point Company
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Cavaliers (1642-1647)
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John Locke
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Who- was an English philosopher and physician
When-29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) Significance-the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, |
