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36 Cards in this Set
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What is the Treaty of Tordesillas? |
It gave Spain everything west of an imaginary line drawn in the Atlantic and Portugal everything to the east. |
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John Cabot |
Discovered Newfoundland and explored the New England coast. |
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Absolutism |
Monarch holds all power and is not restricted by any law, legislature, or custom |
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30 years war |
One of the longest and most destructive wars in human history. 8 million deaths |
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Cardinal Richelieu |
Advanced royal absolutism Attacked the Huguenots Reformed the army and navy Crushed rebellion |
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Versailles |
Residence of Louis XIV |
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Mercantalism |
Minimize imports, maximize exports |
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert |
Finance minister French mercantalism |
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Prussia |
Historically prominent German state Southeast coast of Baltic Sea |
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Ivan IV |
Grand Prince of Moscow First Tsar of Russia |
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Boyars |
Highest members of Russian nobility |
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Cossacks |
Free groups and outlaw armies comprised of runaway peasants |
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Ottoman Empire |
Created by Turkish tribes in Annatolia Leader is Sultan |
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Constitutionalism |
Government's authority is determined by a body of laws |
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Republicanism |
Citizenship in a state organized as a republic where people hold popular sovereignty |
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Oliver Cromwell |
English military leader who made England into a republic. Took the title of Lord Protector |
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Janissaries |
Elite infantry units confronted by the sultan |
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Osman the 1st |
Founder of the Ottoman Empire |
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Mehmed the 2nd |
Captured Const from the Roman Empire |
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Suleyman |
Ruler of Ottoman Empire at the height of it's power |
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English Parlimant is made up of what? |
House of Lords, House of Commons, and The Queen |
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The English Civil War was fought by who over what? |
Between Parliament and Royalists over English government |
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
Created the microscope |
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Diesm |
The belief in a god but a denial of revealed deities |
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Isaac Newton |
Key figure of scientific revolution |
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Galileo |
Strengthened heliocentric solar system theory over geocentric. Had an inquisition led against him |
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Edward Genner |
Pioneered the small pox vaccine |
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Voltair |
Freedom of religion Freedom of speech Separation of church and state |
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Voltaire's Quotes |
If god did not exist, it would be necessary to create him. I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it |
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Emilie du Chatelet |
Voltaire's lover Wrote about Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz and Issac Newton |
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Salon |
Held party to refine tastes and increase knowledge through conversations |
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Enlightenment |
Intellectual and philosophical movement in the 18th century Europe |
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Glorious Revolution |
Invited protestant King William the 3rd of Orange-Nassau. Old king escaped out of fear. |
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3 themes of the Enlightenment |
Reason, Individualism, Skepticism |
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Invisible hand problem? |
Survive ina world depending on others |
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Invisible hand solution? |
Fred market |
