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21 Cards in this Set
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Greecian painter who lived primarily in Spain
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El Greco
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Germany failed to take over ________?
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Great Britain
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Louis XVI
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french king who liked clocks.
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French Protestants
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Huguenots
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marie antoinette
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austrian wife of Louis XVI
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guillotine
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thing that cuts heads off
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Dissolved Parliament and provoked the English Civil War
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Charles I of England
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wealthy citizens who supported Charles I against Parliament
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Cavaliers
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poor citizens who supported the Puritans in Parliament
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Roundheads
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bastille
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prison and armory that the sans-culottes broke into.
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leader of the Roundheads; became Lord Protector
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Oliver Cromwell
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stated that Parliament had greater power over monarchy
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English Bill of Rights
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signed the English Bill of Rights and became the rulers
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William and Mary
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Russian czar who enforced laws that helpend technology become more advanced
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Peter the Great
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believed in a social contract and also believed that people are born free but are enslaved by society
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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believed that people are naturally cruel; wrote Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
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belived in natural rights; wrote the Two Treatises of Government
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John Locke
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created the system of checks and balances; wrote Spirit of the Laws
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Montesquieu
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believed in and fought for freedom of speech
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Voltaire
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The Enlightenment was prompted
by the ____ ____ (1500s & 1600s). |
Scientific Revolution
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