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34 Cards in this Set
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Phillip II of Spain
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Ruler of Spain
Brought economy down |
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Absolute monarch
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Unlimited power
Controls all aspects of society Believes in divine right |
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Divine right
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Rulers/monarchs are picked by god
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Edict of Nantes
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Promised Protestants could live peacefully in France
Brought end to religious conflicts in F. |
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Jean Baptiste Colbert
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Assisted Louis
Tried to make France self-sufficient Wanted F. to manufacture everything |
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Became the essential ruler of France during Louis XIII
Wanted to make F. strongest state |
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Louis XIV
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Ruler of France
Like to be luxurious |
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Ivan the Terrible
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The first czar
Had a “bad period” Grandfather of Peter the Great |
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Peter the Great
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Czar of Russia
Westernized and modernized Russia |
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Westernization
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Adoption of institutions of Western (Eur. or American) countries
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Charles I
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Vs. Parliament
His head was chopped off Ignored the Petition of Right |
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Petition of Right
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Gave Parliament power
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Glorious Revolution
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Overthrow of James II
“NO BLOOD” |
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Constitutional monarchy
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Governing in which ruler’s power is limited by the law
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Oliver Cromwell
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Abolished monarchy
Parliament person- PuRiTaN Religious tolerance (xept Catholics) |
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Habeas Corpus
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During Charles II reign
Parliament passed a guarantee of freedom “to have a body” |
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James II
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Displayed his Catholicism
Overthrow of him= Glorious Rev. |
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William and Mary
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Made the Bill of Rights and a centralized government
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English Bill of Rights
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Gave the rights of people
In England |
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Geocentric theory
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The earth-centered theory
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Scientific Revolution
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New ways of thinking about the natural world
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Heliocentric Theory
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The sun-centered theory
Copernicus’ |
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Galileo Galilei
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Astronomy guy
Built a telescope Discovered Jupiter’s moons |
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Scientific method
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A procedure for gathering and testing ideas
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Isaac Newton
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Explained the laws of gravity
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Enlightenment
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Age of new ideas about the government
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Social contract
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Getting order by giving power to monarch
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John Locke
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People have a right to overthrow a bad gov.
Gov. gets power from people |
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Thomas Hobbes
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Favored strong gov. to keep people in order
Promoted social contract |
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Rousseau
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Civilization corrupts people’s natural goodness
All people are equal |
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Philosophes
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People who reflected on the ideas of the enlightenment
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Enlightened despot
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Monarchs that embraced the new ideas and made new reforms
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Salon
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Where people met to discuss Where people met to discuss ideas
Usually wealthy women’s houses |
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baroque
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A style with grand ornate designs
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