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Dutch East India Company
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Private firm chartered by the government in 1602. The company had a monopoly Dutch trading in the Pacific. Eventually took over the Portuguese spice and luxury trade in the East and was great fro stockholders. Know for splitting risks and cost making success and money.The reason the Dutch were so successful with a small population of 25 million
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Ferdinand Magellan
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His ships were the first to circumnavigate the world. Starting in Spain in 1519. First to do it only a few survivors not including him. Proved world was round
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Mercantilism
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The chief goal of economic policy was a favorable balance of trade, with the value of a countries exports exceeding the cost of its imports. Its and attempt by a government to control there economy
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Vasco da Gama
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sailed across Indian ocean to the west coast of India.
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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sponsored series of explorations voyages down the west coast of Africa and out into the ocean as far as the Azores in search for african gold.
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John Calvin
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French lawyer who made protestant movement as a rebellion against Rome. Gods predestined souls. Good works encouraged.
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Edict of Nantes
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Gave Calvinists freedom to worship in certain areas.
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The Elect
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The souls destined for heaven
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King Henry VIII
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Needed male successor. wanted a divorce. Created his own branch of religion.
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Martin Luther
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Challenged Rome. Wrote 95 theses. Was a monk. Opposed selling of indulgences-forgiveness of the spiritual guilt created by sins. Didn't believe in good works, faith alone.
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Ninety-five Theses
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Posted by Luther on his German church door. Raised questions of papacy practices such as indulgences, and whole doctrine of papal supremacy. And the corruption.
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Puritans
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People who wanted to purify the church by removing all remnants of popery.
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Bloody Mary
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Put protestant conspirators to death without hesitation getter her name. Catholic daughter of Henry VIII's first Spanish catholic wife.
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Elizabeth I
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Queen of England from 1558 to 1603, daughter of Henry VIII. Had no husband, virgin. Did great things for england
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Ulrich Zwingli
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Protestant from Switzerland. Same doctrine as Luther but argued he arrived at it independently.worked with Luther on combating the Roman Catholic church on same issues. Just as big of help as Luther did.
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Reformation
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an upheaval in he early sixteenth century had its roots in political and social developments as much as i religious disputes.
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St. Bartholomes's Day Massacre
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Massacre of Protestants in Paris.
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Act of Supremacy of 1534
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Henry the VIII intimidated parliament into declaring this to make him the only supreme head of the church in England
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Long Parliament
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Called by Charles I after the bishop wars. Cant be ended tell all member agree. Lasted throughout English civil war.
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English Civil War
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Conflicts between Parliament and Royalists. Supporters of Charles I Vs. supports of long parliament.
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Cromwell
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Involvement in making England Republican commonwealth.
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dervish
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"sufi",order of Islam
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devshirme
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a system to staff Janissary units to high positions
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ghazi
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frontier warriors
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safavid
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greatest rival of Ottoman Empire in 16th century
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Suleiman
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Ottoman ruler (1520-1566)
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Mughals
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Indian Muslim Empire
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Sikhs
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religion of Hindu and Muslim
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valide sultan
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Queen mother (Ottoman)
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Lady Montagu
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wrote satires against papacy
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Treaty of Westphalia
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religious peace treaty
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Henry IV
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fought Habsburgs
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Huguenots
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French Protestants
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Mazarin
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the successor of Richelieu as chiet minister
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The Sun King
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Louis XIV was know as
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Forbidden City
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Center of Northern city of Beijing. No ordinary person allowed in
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Ming Dynasty
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Dynasty of Chinese rulers that gained control by overthrowing government
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Manchuria
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North of China, but invaded and won support
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Qing Dynasty
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Ruled at China's most prosperous time
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Red Turbans
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They wore red turbans, where rebellious
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Nanjing
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where chinese capital was for a time
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Yongle emperor
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emperor that gained most of China's heartlands
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Zheng He
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Muslim, castrated, rose to admiral of huge fleet.
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daimyo
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warriors nobles
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haiku
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poems (famous)
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Kabuki
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Japanese drama that is realistic and humorous.
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samurai
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servant warriors of daimyo
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shogun
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military strongmen of shogunate
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shogunate
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centralized feudalism established
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Bushido
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warrior caste
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Mestizos
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sons of spanish men and Indian women
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criollos
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native born ppl of Iberian race
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Haciendas
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Rural plantation villages
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encomienda
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the right to demand uncompensated labor from the natives as reward for the risk and hardships of exploration.
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Zwingli
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Switzerland radical, literal interpretation of scriptures. Same as Luther but claimed independence.
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Calvin
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Switzerland lawyer, predestination, the "elect"
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Copernicus
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"Earth revolves around the sun", heliocentric view
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Brahe
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20 years of data, saw a new star, the world is changing.
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Kepler
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planetary motion, do not move in uniform speed, eliptical
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Galileo
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law of inertia
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Newton
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Law of gravity, mathematical laws
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Bacon
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empirical research
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Descartes
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deductive reasoning " I think, therefore I Am"
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Locke
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all ideas are derived from experience
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Montesquieu
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Philosopher, favored divided political power into groups
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Voltaire
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Challenged church
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Voltaire, Diderot, And Adam Smith
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Believed in power of human reason and the perfectibility of humankind.
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