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59 Cards in this Set
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The Renaissance
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roughly 1330 - 1607
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The Voyages of Discovery and Exploration
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1400-1776
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The Reformation
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1517 to 1648 (or possibly 1688)
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The Scientific Revolution
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1543-1687
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The Contest for Supremacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries between Constitutional Forms of Government and Absolutist Bureaucratic Forms of Government
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1640s to 1800
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The Age of the Enlightenment
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1687-1789
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The Age of the English American and French Revolutions
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1642, and 1763 until 1815
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The Age of Reaction Romanticism and Liberal Revolution
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1790-1848
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The Age of the First Industrial Revolution
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1760 - 1870
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The Age of Science Realism Materialism Nationalism and Imperialism
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1848-1914
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The Age of the Second Industrial Revolution
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1870 to 1945
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What some historians have called the Second Thirty Years War for Supremacy in Europe and the World which included both the First and Second World Wars
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1914-1945
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The Cold War and the Emergence of the Third World
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1945- 1989
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The Contemporary World or the Space Computer and Global World
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1989- 2002.
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Ming Dynasty
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1368-1644
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Fall of Constantinople
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1453
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Reformation begins
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1517
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Cortez defeats the Aztecs
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1519
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Publication of the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies by Copernicus
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1543
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Reign of Queen Elizabeth
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1558-1603
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Defeat of Spanish Armada
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1588
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Tokugawa Dynasty begins in Japan
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1603
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Jamestown first settled
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1607
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Thirty Years War
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1618-1648
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English Civil War
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1642-1647
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Ching or Qing Dynasty in China
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1644-1911
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Peace of Westphalia
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1648
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Publication of Principia by Newton
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1687
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Glorious Revolution
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1688
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War of Spanish Succession
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1701-1713
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French and Indian War
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1754-1763
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American Revolution
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1775-1783
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Year French Revolution began
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1789
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Louisiana Purchase
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1803
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War of 1812
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Congress of Vienna
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1815
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First Reform Bill in England
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1832
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Reign of Queen Victoria
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1835-1901
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First Opium War in China
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1839-1842
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Year of multiple liberal Revolutions in Europe
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1848
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Crimean War
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1854-1855 - Ottoman Empire Britain and France vs. Russia, ended by Treaty of Paris
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Taiping Rebellion in China
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1851-1864
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Publication of Origin of Species
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1859
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American Civil War
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1861-1865
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Meiji Restoration in Japan
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1868
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Franco-Prussian War
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1870
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Invention of telephone
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1876
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Spanish American War
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1898
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Invention of Airplane
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1903
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Russo-Japanese War
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1904
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Chinese Revolution
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1911
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First World War
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1914-1918
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American involvement in WW I
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1917-1918
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Russian Revolution
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1917
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Hitler takes over Austria
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1938
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Munich Pact
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1938
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World War II
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1939-1945
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Korean War
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1950-1953
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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1989
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