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49 Cards in this Set
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What is a monarch?
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A king or queen
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How do monarchs gain power?
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The inherit their throne from their mothers/fathers
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What is a revolution?
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A change in government
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Examples
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Example: French Revolution, American Revolution, Glorious Revolution
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What is nationalism?
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A deep loyalty to ones country
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When did nationalism increase?
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It became very strong in Europe after the middle ages
People started defining themselves as English, French etc. |
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What is a Absolute monarchy?
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When the king or queen has complete power over the country
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Examples of Absolute monarchs?
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Kings and queens like: Elizabeth I, Mary I, Henry VIII, Ferdinand & Isabella, Louis XIV, Ivan the terrible
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What is Absolutism?
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When leaders have complete control over a country
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Why did kings and queens believe they had this power?
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Kings and queens believed that g-d gave them this right
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What does magna carta mean?
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It means great paper
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What did the magna carta say?
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It started the king must follow the laws of England
It was the first limit on the king’s power and the idea led to constitution |
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Which monarchs were in the tutor family?
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King henry the VIII and his 2 daughters, Mary and Elizabeth and his son Edward the VI
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Why are the tutors important?
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They each made huge changes in England
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Who was Elizabeth?
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Protestant daughter of Henry the VIII mom was Anne boline
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Why didn’t Elizabeth never marry?
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Never married protect her power and England
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What important things did she accomplish?
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Made England’s navy the strongest
Made it safe for all religions |
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Who was Mary I?
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Henry the VIII first daughters
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What is she known for as queen?
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Bloody Mary – she killed many protestants during her rule
Very unpopular |
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Why is henry so famous?
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Married six different women - some he had beheaded, others he just divorced
He invented the church of England (Protestant) because the pope wouldn’t let him divorce his wife |
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Where did Ferdinand and Isabella rule?
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King and queen of Spain
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What two important things occurred during there rain?
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She funded Columbus voyage to the new world
The united Spain and made it a catholic country – then forced the Muslims and Jews out |
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What was the glorious revolution?
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When William and Mary took power in England
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Why was it called the glorious revolution?
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There was no war - they were protestant and they agreed to have less power parliament had more
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What did peter the great do?
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Made Russia more modern and European (calendar, military and newspapers)
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Who was napoleon?
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He was powerful military leader
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Where did napoleon take over?
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Took over France after reign of terror
Took over most of Europe |
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How was napoleon defeated?
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Went far into Russia
Defeated at waterloo |
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When was the Age of Enlightenment ?
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18th century
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What was Age of Enlightenment ?
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Middle class grew and started ideas about government
Helped cause the us and French revolution |
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what is feudalism?
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A political system in which a powerful noble granted land to a lesser noble
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Why was feudalism needed in middle ages?
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Needed to protect their land because there wasn’t strong government to do it for them
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what is a fief?
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Land granted by the land lord
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what is a vassal?
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Person who received the Fief
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what is chivalry?
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Knights code of honor
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what is primogeniture?
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Land was passed down from father to oldest son
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what is excommunicate?
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Kicked out of church and not receive your last prayers cant be buried on sacred ground and cant be married
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What happens to someone who is excommunicated?
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made them an outcast
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what is regular clergy
why is it called regular what is the point of regular clergy |
The clergy who didn’t talk to any one “Monks(Nuns)”
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what is secular clergy
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The clergy who dealt with the daily problems
Bishops,priests,archbishops,cardinals,pope |
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What were the crusades?
Which won succeded? How were they good for Europe |
The knights and men who went on crusade (a holy war)
Only the first succeed but helped Europe Stented the king improve weapons and knowledge and helped the renaissance |
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What was the name
What animals carried the plague |
A illness that spread rapindly and killed thousands of people ½ of the people in Europe
Rats and fleas Black death |
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What is a heritic
What happened to the heritics |
Someone who went against the church and was considered a traitor
Forced to confess if they didn’t they were killed |
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What was the role of the church in the Middle Ages?
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In the middle ages the church was a strong back bone of almost every thing
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How did the Crusades change Europe?
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The crusaders left Europe peace full which allowed it to grow and prosper
Trade incressed – people from Europe wanted spices and silks – fewer wars |
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Gve two reasons a man might join the Crusades.
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For the riches/land
Or the honor |
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How did Chivalry affect each class during the Middle Ages? Why were the effects of Chivalry somewhat limited?
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It was a way to live there life and made the woman and children fell safer but it was only applied to people of the same class
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Why did a manor need to be self-sufficient?
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The manor needed to be self sufficient because there was no trade at all
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Why was the feudal system needed in Medieval Europe?
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They needed a setem to try and start up trade but it didn’t work and also they needed hope
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