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30 Cards in this Set
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Michaelangelo
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sistie chapel, statue of David
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Renaissance
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Paintings and innovations, "Renaissance Man", Mona Lisa, Last Supper
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Renaissance
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Shakespeare
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English Playwright
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Renaissance
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Erasmus
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Scholar, humanism
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Renaissance
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Martin Luther
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Salvation by faith alone,
Bible ultimate authority, all humans equal before God |
Reformation
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John Calvin
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Predestination
Faith revealed by living a righteous life Work Ethic |
Reformation
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Henry VIII
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Anglican Church
Dismissed the authority of the Pope |
Reformation
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Elizabeth I
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continued Anglican Church
brillant ruler of England |
Reformation
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Vasco da Gama
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explored Portugal
first one to get to India by water |
Explorer
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Christopher COlumbus
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explored spain,
thought it was India |
Explorer
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Hernando Cortez
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Aztecs Conquered
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Explorer
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Francisco Pizarro
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Incas Conquered
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Explorer
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Ferdinand Magellan
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navigated world, took 3 years,
died on the way |
Explorer
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Francis Drake
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Englishman (1st)to circumnavigate the globe
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Explorer
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Jacques Cartier
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Frenchman (1st) St. Lawrence River
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Explorer
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Nicolas Copernicus
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Heliocentric Theory
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Scientist
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Johannes Kepler
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worked on Copernicus' theory, motion of the planets
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Scientist
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Galileo Galili
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Heliocentric Theory (proved)
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Scientist
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Isaac Newton
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Theory of gravity
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Scientist
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William Harvey
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Circulation of blood
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Scientist
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Louis XIV
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sun king
versailles "L'etat, c'est moi." |
Absolute Monarchs
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Frederick the Great
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killed son's best friend, hurt son, wanted son militaristic, son wasn't
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Absolute Monarchs
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Peter the Great
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western style
cut beard for beard tax |
Absolute Monarchs
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Catherine the Great
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extended serfdom into new lands
More westernized |
Absolute Monarch (female)
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Oliver Cromwell
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Puritan
Closed London Theatres |
England Ruler
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Charles I
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only English monarch executed
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England Ruler
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Charles II
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son of Charles I,
reopened theatres Restoration raised in French Cart |
England Ruler
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William and Mary
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Asked to be on throne by parliament,
signed English Bill of Rights |
England Rulers
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Thomas Hobbes
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"Life is nasty, brutish, and short"
Leviathan argued under 'social contract', give monarch absolute power, and anarchy would again result |
Enlightenment Thinker
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John Locke
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two treaties on civil gov't
"life, liberty, property" |
Enlightenment Thinker
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