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He was a Polish astronomer in the 15th and 16th centuries
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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This was a special Church court that investigated writings of some scientists....
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Inquisition
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Did Copernicus discover that the sun revolved around the earth or that the earth revolved around the sun?
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The earth revolved around the sun.
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The German professor who persuaded Copernicus to publish his findings....
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Rheticus
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His invention included a glass tube and mercury....
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
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This person experimented with steam as a source of power...
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James Watt
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek developed this invention....
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microscope
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This was the inventor of the cotton gin....
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Eli Whitney
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A main cause in the increased size and number of cities....
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Factories were built
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This is what a capitalist does...
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Provides money to a company in hopes of making more money
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This, said King James I of England, was the source of a monarch's power....
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God
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The replacement of the headless King Charles I
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Oliver Cromwell
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Author of "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
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Copernicus
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Galileo was from this country...
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Italy
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This man proved that objects of 2 different sizes fall at the same speed...
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Galileo
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Who timed a pendulum with his pulse?
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Galileo
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Which of these people believed in the heliocentric veiw of the Solar System:
Aristotle Copernicus Galileo Ptolemy |
Copernicus and Galileo
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The Inquisition did or did not force Galileo to retract his statements about the Solar System....
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did
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This was the type of government England had in the early 1600's....
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monarchy
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TRUE-FALSE It was common practice to pay all factory workers the same wage.
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False
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Author of the book "Hard Times", about a factory town...
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Charles Dickens
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England had this type of government in the late 1600's...
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constitutional monarchy
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Ascended to the English throne after the Glorious Revolution....
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William and Mary
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The Industrial Revolution raised or lowered the standard of living...
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raised
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Name the capitalist who supplied James Watt with money...
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Matthew Boulton
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The first major act of the French Revolution was...
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the attack on the Bastille
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The law-making body of England...
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Parliament
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He took over the French government in 1799...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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The name of Napoleon's first wife
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Josephine
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King James II of England purposely dropped the Great Seal of the Kingdom into this river...
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Thames River
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TRUE-FALSE...The U.S. has a Bill of Rights but England does not.
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False
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Napoleon's last battle...
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Waterloo
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Waterloo is located in this European country...
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Belgium
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Suppose you were asked to write about the causes and results of the French Revolution....
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Wow, that would be such a great and glorius pleasure...
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This was the king that Napoleon replaced....
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Louis 16th
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If you were standing outside the Bastille, which city would you be in..
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Paris
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Which was less violent...Glorious Revolution or the Reign of Terror?
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Glorious Revolution
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You read the text, you drew the picture, you saw the video, can you write knowledgably about Napoleon?
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Hope so...
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Considered Napoleon's greatest mistake...
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invading Russia
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