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Who was Niccolo Machiavelli? |
Wrote 'The prince' |
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What is humanism? |
The renaissance idea that a human can do anything they set their minds to |
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Who was John Calvin? |
He was a pastor during the protestant reformation and created the religion that is 'Calvinism' |
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Who was King Henry VII? |
He famously married 6 women, eventually creating separation between church and England when the church refused him a divorce |
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Who was Johannes Gutenberg? |
He created the first printing press |
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Who were conquistadors? |
Soldiers from Portugal/Spain including Hernán Cortéz & Francisco Pizarro |
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What is mercantilism? |
buying a product for cheap and reselling it for a much higher price |
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What was the Triangular trade |
Trade that connected Europe, Africa/Asia, and America. |
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What was the Middle Passage? |
The trade from Africa to America that brought over Slaves |
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Who was King Frederick I? |
The first King of Prussia |
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Who were the Moguls? |
An empire that ruled most of Northern India from the 16th - 18th century |
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What was the Ming Dynasty? |
Ming Hong Wu founded it from 1368-1644. It brought an efficient government, school system, abundance in food etc. |
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What was the Qing Dynasty? |
Manchuas created the dynasty from 1644-1911. They were very strict though shared their power, which won support from many Chinese people. |
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Tokugawa Shogunate |
There were 4 classes: Warriors, Peasants, artisians, and merchants. They set out to establish control over the feudal government in Japan |
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What was the Heliocentric view of the Universe? |
The (correct) theory that the sun is the center and the planets revolve around it |
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Who was John Locke? |
He believed humans were born with natural rights, supported separation of church and state |
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Who was Voltaire? |
An enlightenment writer who moreso rejected the Catholic Church ideas rather than accept them |
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Who was Montesquieu? |
Created the idea of 'checks and balances' which creates a system of branches of government |
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What was Laissez-faire? |
The idea of letting the government take its own coarse, not interfering. |
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What was the Social Contract? |
The idea of sacrificing some individual freedoms for state protection |
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Who was Zheng He? |
A Chinese explorer and voyager during the early Ming Dynasty |
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Who were Daimyos? |
Powerful leaders of the Shogun, responsible for most things inside and outside the home |
