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Government where the power of the crown is unchecked.
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Absolute Monarchy
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Another name for the Age of Monarchs.
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Age of Absolutism.
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Strongest nation in Europe during the 1500s and early 1600s.
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Spain
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Was both the Holy Roman Emperor and the king of Spain.
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Charles V
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Dynasty of Charles V and Philip II.
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Hapsburg
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When Charles V divided his empire his son Phillip II became _________.
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King of Spain
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Strongest monarch during Spanish supremacy
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Philip II
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He used wealth (gold & silver) from colonies to build the largest and strongest army in Europe.
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Philip II
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Philip II saw Spain as the defender of the __________.
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Catholic Faith
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He involved Spain in wars against the enemies of Catholicism. (Protestants, Muslims etc.)
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Philip II
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Philip II attempted to force all non-Catholics to ________________.
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convert or leave Spain
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Was used as a reign of terror to extract all non-catholic elements from Spain.
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Spanish Inquisition
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Jews in Spain who had been baptized to escape persecution.
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Marranos
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Muslims in Spain who had converted to escape persecution.
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Moriscos
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This source of wealth enabled Spain to become the strongest nation in Europe.
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American Colonies
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Philip II unsuccessfully tried to crush a revolt in the Protestant _____________.
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Dutch Netherlands
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Came to power after his victory in the Wars of the Roses.
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Henry VII
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First Tudor Monarch.
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Henry VII
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Monarchs became more powerful as ______.
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Nobles became weaker.
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English monarchs were not _______.
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absolute in their rule.
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English monarchs did increase their power by __________.
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avoiding war.
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English monarch who broke with the Catholic Church.
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Henry VIII
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Monarch who brought Protestant doctrines into English Church.
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Edward VI
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Monarch that restored Catholicism to England.
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Mary I (Bloody Mary)
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Philip II's English rival.
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Elizabeth I
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Ruled England from 1558 to 1603.
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Elizabeth I
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English captains that captured Spanish Treasure ships.
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Sea Dogs
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In the conflict between Protestants & Catholics Elizabeth I took a ___________.
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moderate position
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Plotted to overthrow Elizabeth I
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Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots)
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Had Mary Queen of Scots executed.
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Elizabeth I
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Aided Dutch Protestants in their revolt against Spain.
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Elizabeth I
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Sent by Philip II to defeat England.
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Spanish Armada
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Defeated the Spanish Armada (big upset)
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Sea Dogs
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada (date)
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A.D. 1588
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The beginning of Spanish decline and the rise of England was the _____.
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defeat of the Armada
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They wished to eliminate Catholic practices in the Church of England.
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Puritans
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It struggled with Elizabeth I for control of England.
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Parliament
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They were a minority in the English population and opposed Elizabeth I in Parliament.
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Puritans
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England's Golden Age.
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Elizabethan Era
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Leading figure of England's Golden Age of Literature.
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William Shakespeare
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Succeeded Elizabeth I
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James I
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First Stuart King
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James I
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James I believed kings were answerable _____.
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only to God
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James I commissioned the writing of the _____.
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King James Bible
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Succeeded James I
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Charles I
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Charles I tried to strengthen the monarchy by repeatedly _____.
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dissolving Parliament
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Parliament and English kings fought over_____.
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religion and money
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The idea that royal power is granted by God.
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Divine Right of Kings
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His reign ended in England's civil war
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Charles I
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It was fought over who should rule England: Monarch or Parliament.
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English Civil War
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Those who supported Charles I in the English Civil War
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Cavaliers
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Those who supported Parliament in the English Civil War
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Roundheads
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Roundheads were mainly _____.(religion)
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Puritans
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Led the Puritan army to victory in the English Civil War.
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Oliver Cromwell
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After the English Civil war parliament tried to ______.
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dissolve the army
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After refusing to dissolve the English army _______.
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purged parliament
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English parliament after the purge.
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Rump Parliament
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The Rump Parliament tried and executed _________.
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Charles I
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Cromwell drove out the Rump Parliament and set up a ________.
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military dictatorship
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Name for Cromwell's military dictatorship
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Protectorate
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Cromwell's dictatorship enforced a _______.
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Puritan moral Code
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Cromwell brutally suppressed a rebellion in___.
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Ireland
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Succeeded his father as Lord Protector of England.
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Richard Cromwell
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Richard Cromwell was deposed by a ________.
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Military coup
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He was invited by Parliament to come back from exile and become king.
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Charles II
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The return of Charles II as King of England
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Restoration
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Restoration date
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A.D. 1660
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The Restoration gave England a ______.
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Constitutional monarchy
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A monarchy limited by a constitution.
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Constitutional Monarchy
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Time of reaction to Puritan rule.
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Restoration period
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Brother and successor to Charles II.
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James II
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James II's religion
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Catholic
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Party OPPOSED to James II's succession to the throne
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Whigs
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Party that SUPPORTED James II's succession to the throne
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Tories
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English feared that James II would make Catholicism the _______.
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State Religion
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The Whigs and the Tories invited him to overthrow James II.
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William of Orange
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Gave up his throne and fled England without a fight
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James II
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Name for the bloodless deposing of James II.
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Glorious Revolution
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Ruled England as joint rulers after the Glorious Revolution.
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William and Mary
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Date of the Glorious Revolution
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AD 1688
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He believed governments were created to protect people from their own selfishness.
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Thomas Hobbes
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He did NOT believe people ever had the right to revolt.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Form of government advocated by Thomas Hobbes.
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Absolute Monarchy
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Theory used to justify Absolute rule prior to Hobbes.
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Divine Right
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He believed people had Natural Rights to life, liberty, and property.
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John Locke
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John Locke believed that if people's natural rights were not protected they had the ______.
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right to revolt
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First Bourbon King
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Henry of Navarre/Henry IV
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Established the Edict Nantes
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Henry IV
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Real Ruler during the reign of Louis XIII
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Involved Catholic France in the 30 years war on the side of the protestants.
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Was triggered by a rebellion of Czech protestants.
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Thirty Years War
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Started over religion ended up over the balance of power.
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Thirty Years War
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Ended the 30 years war.
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Treaty of Westphalia
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Made France the strongest country in Europe
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Treaty of Westphalia
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Defacto ruler of France during the early reign of Louis XIV
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Mazarin
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Louis XIV Minister of Finance
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Colbert
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Belief that a nation's wealth was determined by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury.
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Mercantilism
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Greater exports than imports
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favorable balance of trade
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Economic philosophy of the 16th to 18th centuries.
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Mercantilism
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A tax on imports
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Protective tariff
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Sun King
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Louis XIV
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Ruled France from 1643 to 1715
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Louis XIV
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He weakened the power of the nobles by inviting them to live in Luxury in his palace.
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Louis XIV
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Strongest French Monarch
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Louis XIV
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Gave French Protestants religious freedom in 1598.
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Edict of Nantes
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In 1685 Louis XIV revoked the _______.
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Edict of Nantes
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When it was revoked many skilled workers left France.
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Edict of Nantes
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Strongest nation in Europe during the 1600's
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France
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Small nations band together to keep a strong nation from dominating.
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Balance of Power
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War fought to Keep Louis XIV's grandson off the throne of Spain
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War of Spanish Succession
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Ended the War of Spanish Succession
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Treaty of Utrecht
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Broke French Treasury and military power
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War of Spanish Succession
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Prevented the alliance of France and Spain
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Treaty of Utrecht
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His policies brought France near financial ruin and created class conflict
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Louis XIV
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In 1650 Russia was an isolated and _________.
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backward country
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Title of the Russian ruler.
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Czar
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Czar who worked to modernize Russia
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Peter the Great
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Peter the Great was an ________.
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absolute monarch
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Peter fought the Swedes and the Turks to gain a ________.
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warm water port
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Peter the Great built the new capital of Russia_______.
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St. Petersburg
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Convinced European Monarchs to accept the Pragmatic Sanction
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Charles VI
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Allowed Maria Theresa to inherit the Throne of Austria
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Pragmatic Sanction
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Carried Tax Burden during the reign of Louis XIV.
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Poor
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Dynasty that ruled Prussia during the Age of Monarchs.
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Hohenzollern
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Elector of Brandenburg, builds strong standing army, forms an alliance with the Junkers.
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Frederick William the Great Elector
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Hohenzollern formula for success
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Build a stronger army
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Prussian Nobles
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Junkers
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First to be called King of Prussia
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Frederick the First
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Centralized Prussian Government. Made Prussian army the most efficient fighting force in Europe.
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Frederick William I
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Sergeant King
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Frederick William I
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Most powerful ruler in Prussian History
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Frederick the Great
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He rejected the Pragmatic Sanction and started the war of Austrian Succession
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Frederick the Great
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Ended the War of Austrian succession
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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
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Maria Theresa keeps the throne of Austria, Austria loses Silesia.
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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
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Austria switches from an alliance with England to an alliance with France and Russia.
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Diplomatic Revolution
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Pulled off the Diplomatic Revolution.
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Maria Theresa
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Starts as a struggle between Austria & Prussia becomes a struggle between England & France.
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Seven Years War
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Name of the Seven Years war in America
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French and Indian War
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Ended the Seven Years War.
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Treaty of Paris
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Gained most French Colonial lands in North America from the Treaty of Paris
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England
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Date of the Treaty of Paris
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AD 1763
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Intellectual movembent of the 17th & 18th centuries.
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Enlightenment
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The Enlightenment celebrated the powers of ______.
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Human Reason
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Enlightenment thinkers promoted religious ____________.
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toleration
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Enlightenment thinkers soghtoconstruct government free of_____________.
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tyranny
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Enlightenment thinkers believed all problem could be solved with__________.
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reason
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The Enlightenment was prompted b the __________.
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Scientific Revolution
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Sun is the center of the Solar System.
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Helicentric theory
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He devoloped the Heliocentric theory.
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Copernicus
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He developed a telescope and supported the Helicentric theory.
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Galileo
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Probably more responsible for the development of scientific method than an other individual.
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Galileo Galilei
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Galileo was forced to recant by the ____________.
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Catholic Church
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Demonstrated that planets move in ellipses/ovals.
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Johannes Kepler
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His discoveries changed the view of the universe more than anyone else's
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Isaac Newton
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He laid the foundations for the scientific theories that susquently revolutionized the world
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Isaac Newton
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Newtn developed the theory of ____________.
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Gravity
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Newton discovered that the universe is governed by__________.
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natural laws
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Newton's discoveries led people o view the universe as _________.
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mechanical
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he developed Calculus.
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Isaac Newton
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Hobbes, Locke& Rousseau were all considered _________.
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social contract theorists
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He believed governments were created to protect people from their own selfishness.
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Thomas Hobbes
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He did not believe people ever had the right to revolt.
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Thomas Hobbes
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He believed human nature was characterized by violence and disorder.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Form of Gorernment advocated by Thomas Hobbes.
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Absolute Monarchy
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He believed people had Natural Rights to life, liberty and property.
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John Locke
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John Locke believed the foundation of Government was a __________.
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Social Contract
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John Locke Believed that if people's natural rights were not protected they had the_________.
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Right to revolt
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First writer to put together in coheent form the basic ideas of constitutional democracy.
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John Locke
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John Locke wrote in defense of the___________.
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Glorious Revolution
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French Thinkers of the enlightenment.
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Philosophes(not philosophers)
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Philosophe who campaigned against intolerance.
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Voltaire
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Wrote Candide.
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Voltaire
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French auther: the apostle of freethinking and liberalism.
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Voltaire
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He combined enlightenment thinking into an Encyclopdia.
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Diderot
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Banned Diderot's Encyclopedia.
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Catholic Church
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Diderot was _________ for iswritings in the Encyclopedia.
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imprisoned
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Advocated a free market economy in the Wealth of Nations.
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Adam Smith
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Leading figure in the development of Economic Theory.
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Adam Smith
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Name for complete free market economy (leave it alone).
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Laissez
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He advocated a complete separation of powers.
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Montesquieu
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Influenced the writing of the American Constitution
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Montesquieu
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He believed the best way to protect people's liberties was by separating the power of government int legislative, executive and judicial branches.
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Montesquieu
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He argues that freedom is the birthright of all humans.
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Rousseau
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Criticized the enlightenment's excessive emphasis on reason.
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Rousseau
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He believed people needed to rely more on emotion and instinct
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Rousseau
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Author whose writings are said to have been a significant factor in the rise of socialism, nationalism, romanticism, totalitarianism and anti-rationalism.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Meetings for the discussion of ideas.
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Salons
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He believed you should set aside traditional beliefs and rely on observation and experiment.
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Francis Bacon
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He was an early proponent of the scientific method.
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Francis Bacon
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First greeat philosopher to realize that science and technology could transform the world.
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Francis Bacon
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He believed you should doubt everything which cannont be proved.
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Rene Descartes
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Descarted believed in a search for truth one should start with faith, but with___________.
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doubt
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The only thing Descartes found that he could not doubt was his ________.
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own existence
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"I think therefore I am."
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Rene Descartes
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He was the first to place tat the center of philosophy the question: "How do I know"?
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Rene Descartes
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Doubt and question all ideas.
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Skepticism
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A denial of the possibility of knowledge
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Skepticism
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The skeptic sees all truth as being based on _______.
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Presuppositions(assumptions)
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Presuppositions/assumptions by nature can't be ___________.
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Proved
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He questioned value of human reason.
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David Hume
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Total skeptic.
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David Hume
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He denied that there was any logical basis for knowing that one thing caused another. Denied knowledge of cause & effect.
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David Hume
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He concluded that there was no necessary connections between any two events in the universe.
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David Hume
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He believed that reason could not be used to explain questions of metaphysics.
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Immanuel Kant
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Tries to answer ultimate and universal questions.
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Metaphysics
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Kant believed that things that cannot be perceived in ________ cannot be known.
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experience
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"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it become a universal law."(only do that which you would be willing to make a universl law.)
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Categorical Imperative
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developed the Categorical Imperative as a guide for ethics
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Immanuel Kant
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The study of knowledge. (How we know?)
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Epistemology
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Study of being.
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Ontology
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Study of what is real.
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Ontology
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View that knowledge is derived from reason.
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Rationalism
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Working of the mind on mateial provided by the mind itself
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Reason
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Believed knowledge is a priori.
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Rationalists
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Truthat can be known WITHOUT observation.
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a priori
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They believe the human mind contains innate ideas.
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Rationalists
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Mind and the world are seen to be in conformity.
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Rationalism
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Descartes, Spinoza & Leibniz
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Classical Rationalists
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View that knowledge is derived from sense experience.(observation)
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Empiricism
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Believe knowledge is a posteriori.
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Empiricists
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Truth that can be established only through observation.
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a posteriori
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Locke, Berkeley and Hume.
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Classical Empiricists
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Rejects the existence of innate ideas.
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Empiricism
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Believe all knowledge is acquired by sense experience.
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empiricists
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John Locke believed the mind to be a __________.
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Tabula rasa(blank slate)
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Empiricists believe the mind can contain no knowledg which was not first contained in the ________.
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senses
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Religion based on reason and natural law.
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Deism
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Belief that God started the universe like a perfect clock and then left it alone.
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Deism
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Enlightenment's religion.
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Deism
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Some people reacted to Enlightenment and did not believe that _________ could explain the universe.
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reason alone
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In a religious reaction to the enlightenment people sought religions which emphasized the ________.
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emotions
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Founded the American Quaker Colony.
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William Penn
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William Penn and Quker advocated _________.
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Pacifism
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Opposition to the use of violence.
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Pacifism
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Inaugurated the liberal and democratic movementsof the 19th century.
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French Revolution
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France's institutions of Monarchy and Feudalism.
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Old Regime
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Name for Frence's social classes.
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Estates
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King of France at the beginning of the French Revolution.
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Louis XVI
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First Estate.
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Catholic Clergy
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Second Estate.
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Noblility
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Bourgeoisie, artisans, and peasants.
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Third Estate
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Middle Class
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Bourgeoisie
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Large Gap between the rich and the poor.
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Cause of the French Revolution.
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Heavy tax burden on the Third Estate.
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Cause of the French Revolution.
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First & Second Estate don’t pay taxes.
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Cause of the French Revolution.
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Enlightenment ideas of Freedom and Equality.
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Cause of the French Revolution.
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Growth of the middle class.
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Cause of the French Revolution.
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Wide spread famine.
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Cause of the French Revolution.
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In 1789 Louis XVI called a meeting of the _________.
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Estates General.
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The Estates General had not met in over _________.
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150 years.
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Louis XVI called the Estates General because he needed to _____.
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raise money
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Included all three estates.
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Estates General.
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Upper two estates wanted to vote as ______.
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Estates
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Third Estate wanted to vote as______.
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delegates.
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Voting as delegates would give power to the ________.
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Third Estate
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Louis XVI refused the Third Estate’s request for a _________.
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Mass Meeting (voting as delegtes)
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The Third Estate declared itself to be the _____________.
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The National Convention.
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Members of the National Assembly swore to remain in session until a constituion was completed.
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Tennis court oath.
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Ordered all three estates to negotiate in the National Assembly.
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Louis XVI
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Ordered Swiss troops to Paris.
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Louis XVI
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French Royal Prison.
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Bastille.
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Attacked by Parisians to defend the National Assembly.
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Bastille.
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Symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.
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Storming of the Bastille.
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Confusion and violence that followed the start of the rebellion.
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The Great Fear.
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Voted to end special privileges of Nobility & Clergy (Old Regime).
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National Assembly.
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Slogan of the Revolution.
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“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
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National Assembly guaranteed freedom of speech, press, and religion.
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“Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the citizen.”
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In 1791 the National Assembly created a ________.
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Limited Constitutional Monarchy.
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Extreme radicals who demanded “true democracy.”
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Jacobins.
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Unpopular Queen of France.
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Marie Antoinette
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National Assembly declared war on ________.
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Austria
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Joined Austria in war against France.
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Prussia
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Seized control of Assembly remove king from office.
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Jacobins.
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Jacobins killed people they claimed were _____________.
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Counter-revolutionaries
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Called by Radicals to rewrite French Constitution.
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National Assembly.
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National Convention abolished _____.
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Monarchy
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National Convention declared France a _______.
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Republic
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Convicted of Treason and executed by the National Convention.
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Louis XVI
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Alliance of European countries against France.
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First Coalition
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Because of threats from within, and without, the Convention formed the ____________.
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Committee of Public Safety
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Jacobin became the head of the Committee of Public Safety.
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Robespierre
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To stop counter-revolution the committee began the ________.
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Reign of Terror
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500,000 people arrested, 40,000 executed on guillotine.
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Reign of Terror
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Used by committee to deal with invading armies.
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Mass Moblization
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Whole society helps to defeat enemy.
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Mass Moblization
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Members of the Convention turned on him because they feared for their own safety.
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Robespierre
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Was himself guillotined along with many followers.
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Robespierre
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Robespierre’s death ended the _________.
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Reign of Terror
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Took control of the Convention after the Reign of Terror.
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Bourgeoisie
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Conservative Government set up by the Convention after the end of the Reign of Terror.
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The Directory.
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None
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Put in Command of France’s armies by the Directory.
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Napoleon.
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Seized power from the Directory in a Coup d’ etat.
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Napoleon.
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Quick overthrow of government by a small group.
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Coup d’ etat.
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As first Consul of the French Republic Napoleon assumed ____.
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Dictoral powers.
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Used soldiers to restore order to France.
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Napoleon.
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Napoleon was able to get the backing of French Catholics and the ____.
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Pope
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None
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Made the law clear and consistent in France.
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Napoleonic code
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Bonaparte became Emperor Napoleon I by __________.
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The will of the people
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Napoleon expanded his empire to include most of ________.
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Europe
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British Admiral who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Horatio Nelson.
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Because of his defeat in the Battle of Trafalgar,
Napoleon gave up on _____. |
Invading Britain
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None
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Napoleon tried to keep British goods out of __________.
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European ports
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Napoleon invaded it because it refused to stop
selling goods to Britain. |
Russia.
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None
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Was a disaster because of winter conditions.
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Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
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Tactic used by Russians against Napoleon.
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Scorcehd-earth.
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On retreat from Russia Napoleon lost _______.
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4/5 of his troops
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Grand Alliance defeats Napoleon at Leipzig Germany.
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Battle of Nations.
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After the Battle of Nations the Grand Alliance took Paris and exiled Napoleon to _________.
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Elba
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None
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Napoleon escaped Elba and upon returning to France______.
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won widespread support
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Napoleon’s brief comeback.
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The 100 days.
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Napoleon’s final defeat to Britain and Prussia.
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Waterloo.
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After Waterloo Napoleon was exiled to _________.
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St. Helana
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Rapid Industrial growth that began in England in the mid 1700s
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Industrial Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution began in _______.
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Great Britain
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The Industrial Revolution began during the middle of the ________.
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18th Century
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The Industrial Revolution brought on a rapid concentration of ________.
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people in cities
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Changed the nature of work for many people
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Industrial Revolution
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Rise of urban industrial economies during 1700s & 1800s
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Industrial Revolution
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Public lands where farmers gathered wood grazed livestock, and raised crops
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Village commons
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System of labor in which workers produced goods in their homes
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domestic system
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System used to produce goods prior to Industrial Revolution
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domestic system
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Allowed workers to produce goods & still farm & do household chores
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domestic system
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Practice of fencing off land formerly open to common grazing and cultivation
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Enclosure
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Ended small farmers use of public lands
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Enclosure movement
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The enclosure movement displaced farmers who became a ________.
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labor supply
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New tools & techniques result in greater crop & livestock production
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Agricultural Revolution
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The agricultural revolution helped Great Britain lead the ___________.
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Industrial Revolution
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Capital, natural resources, & labor supply were key elements in Britain’s _______.
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industrial success
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Money to invest in labor machines & raw materials
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capital
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Large scale farming, overseas commerce, & the slave trade helped the British produce ____.
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capital
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Industry provided the aristocracy and the middle class a chance to _______.
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invest
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Water power, Iron & coal were British _____.
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raw materials
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Improved agricultural techniques increased the ____.
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food supply
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An increased food supply increased the ______.
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population
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Risk-taking people who set up industries by bringing together capital, labor & new industrial inventions
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Entrepreneurs
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First industry to be industrialized
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Textile
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Fabric industry
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Textile
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Developed the Cotton Gin
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Eli Whitney
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Cleaned the seeds out of cotton
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Cotton Gin
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The mechanization of the textile industry came about through a series of _______.
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inventions
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Organized method of production, brought workers and machines together under control of managers
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factory system
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Inventor of the first practical steam engine
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James Watt
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Enabled factories to run without the need of water power
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Steam Engine
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Individuals own the means of production
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capitalism
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Factories, frms and mines.
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Means of Production
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Individuals decide what is produced and how money is spent. (free enterprise)
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Capitialism
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Continually expanding factories or investing in new business.
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Industrial Capitalism
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Contributed the concept of interchangeable parts.
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Eli Whitney
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Using machines to create uniform, exchangeable goods/parts.
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Interchangeable parts
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Each worker performs a specialized task
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division of labor
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A product is assembled by a division of labor as it moves along a conveyor belt.
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Assembly line
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Used the assembly line to mass produce Model T automobiles.
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Henry Ford
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Business owned by stockholders
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Corperation
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Provide capital and disperse risk.
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Corperations
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Developed a practical incandescent ligh bulb.
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Thomas Edison
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First to build a self powered airplane.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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Insustrialization enabled industrialists to move into the __________.
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middle class
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Factory work was often monotonous and _____.
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dangerous
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During the Industrial Revelution cities had inadequate ___________.
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clean water
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Workers associations developed into _______.
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labor unions
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Owners of railroads, facories & mines advocated ___________ economies.
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laissez-faire
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Developed the concept of utilitarianism.
|
Jeremy Bentham
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|
Every action should be judged by its contibution to human happiness or the reduction of human misery.
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Utilitarianism
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He rejected laissez-faire economies on grounds of utilitarianism.
|
John Stuart Mill
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Argued for legislation against monopolies & for the protection of individual liberties
|
John Stuart Mill
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Community owenership of the means of production.
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Socialism
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No competition, share the wealth.
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Socialism
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Government where the power of the crown is unchecked.
|
Absolute Monarchy
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Another name for the Age of Monarchs.
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Age of Absolutism.
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Strongest nation in Europe during the 1500s and early 1600s.
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Spain
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Was both the Holy Roman Emperor and the king of Spain.
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Charles V
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Dynasty of Charles V and Philip II.
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Hapsburg
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When Charles V divided his empire his son Phillip II became _________.
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King of Spain
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Strongest monarch during Spanish supremacy
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Philip II
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Philip II and other absolute monarchs believed they were kings by ________.
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Divine Right
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The idea that royal power is granted by God.
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Divine Right of Kings
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He used wealth (gold & silver) from colonies to build the largest and strongest army in Europe.
|
Philip II
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Philip II saw Spain as the defender of the __________.
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Catholic Faith
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He involved Spain in wars against the enemies of Catholicism. (Protestants, Muslims etc.)
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Philip II
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Philip II attempted to force all non-Catholics to ________________.
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convert or leave Spain
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Was used as a reign of terror to extract all non-catholic elements from Spain.
|
Spanish Inquisition
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|
|
This source of wealth enabled Spain to become the strongest nation in Europe.
|
American Colonies
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|
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Philip II sent it to invade England.
|
Spanish Armada
|
|
|
It's defeat in 1588 was the beginning of Spain's decline as the leading European power.
|
Spanish Armada
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|
|
In the late 1500s, France was torn by reiigious conflict between ___________.
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Catholics & Huguenots
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|
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French Protestant Calvinists
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Huguenots
|
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First Bourbon King
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Henry of Navarre/Henry IV
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Established the Edict Nantes
|
Henry IV
|
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|
Gave French Protestants religious freedom in 1598.
|
Edict of Nantes
|
|
|
Real Ruler during the reign of Louis XIII
|
Cardinal Richelieu
|
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|
Involved Catholic France in the 30 years war on the side of the protestants.
|
Cardinal Richelieu
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Was triggered by a rebellion of Bohemian protestants.
|
Thirty Years War
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|
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Started over religion ended up over the balance of power.
|
Thirty Years War
|
|
|
Ended the 30 years war.
|
Peace of Westphalia
|
|
|
Made France the strongest country in Europe
|
Peace of Westphalia
|
|
|
Louis XIV Minister of Finance
|
Colbert
|
|
|
A tax on imports
|
Protective tariff
|
|
|
Sun King ruled France from 1643 to 1715.
|
Louis XIV
|
|
|
He weakened the power of the nobles by inviting them to live in Luxury in his palace.
|
Louis XIV
|
|
|
Strongest French Monarch
|
Louis XIV
|
|
|
In 1685 Louis XIV revoked the _______.
|
Edict of Nantes
|
|
|
Strongest nation in Europe during the 1600's
|
France
|
|
|
Small nations band together to keep a strong nation from dominating.
|
Balance of Power
|
|
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War fought to Keep Louis XIV's grandson off the throne of Spain
|
War of Spanish Succession
|
|
|
Ended the War of Spanish Succession
|
Treaty of Utrecht
|
|
|
Broke French Treasury and military power
|
War of Spanish Succession
|
|
|
Prevented the alliance of France and Spain
|
Treaty of Utrecht
|
|
|
His policies brought France near financial ruin and created class conflict
|
Louis XIV
|
|
|
Philip II's English rival.
|
Elizabeth I
|
|
|
Ruled England from 1558 to 1603.
|
Elizabeth I
|
|
|
English captains that captured Spanish Treasure ships and defeated the Spanish Armada.
|
Sea Dogs
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Ruled England from 1558 to 1603, last Tudor monarch.
|
Elizabeth I
|
|
|
First Stuart Monarch believed in the Divine Right of Kings.
|
James I
|
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|
Those who believed in the Divine Right of Kings believed Monarchs were only answerable to ___.
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God
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Succeeded James I as King of England.
|
Charles I
|
|
|
His reign ended in England's civil war
|
Charles I
|
|
|
It was fought over who should rule England: Monarch or Parliament.
|
English Civil War
|
|
|
Those who supported Charles I in the English Civil War
|
Cavaliers
|
|
|
Those who supported Parliament in the English Civil War
|
Roundheads
|
|
|
Roundheads were mainly _____.(religion)
|
Puritans
|
|
|
Led parliament's army to victory in the English Civil War.
|
Oliver Cromwell
|
|
|
The English Parliament tried and executed _________.
|
Charles I
|
|
|
The House of Commons abolished monarchy and declared Engand a republic called the ____.
|
commonwealth
|
|
|
Cromwell drove out Parliament and set up a ________.
|
military dictatorship
|
|
|
Name for Cromwell's military dictatorship
|
Protectorate
|
|
|
Cromwell's dictatorship enforced a _______.
|
Puritan moral Code
|
|
|
Cromwell did not tolerate open worship for ___.
|
Catholics
|
|
|
Richard Cromwell succeeded his father as Lord Protector of England, but when England tired of strict Puritan ways he was deposed by a ___.
|
Military coup
|
|
|
He was invited by Parliament to come back from exile and become king.
|
Charles II
|
|
|
The return of Charles II as King of England
|
Restoration
|
|
|
Restoration date
|
A.D. 1660
|
|
|
The Restoration gave England a ______.
|
Constitutional monarchy
|
|
|
Catholic brother and successor to Charles II.
|
James II
|
|
|
English feared that James II would make Catholicism the _______.
|
State Religion
|
|
|
Name for the bloodless deposing of James II.
|
Glorious Revolution
|
|
|
William & Mary were given joint rule of England after the Glorious Revolution but they first had accept the ____.
|
English Bill of Rights
|
|
|
The Enlgish Bill of Rights made sure Parliament had more power than the ruler and established ________.
|
limited monarchy
|
|
|
Date of the Glorious Revolution
|
AD 1688
|
|
|
Was selected by leading German princes but in reality did not have much power.
|
Holy Roman Emperor
|
|
|
Allowed Maria Theresa to inherit the Throne of Austria
|
Pragmatic Sanction
|
|
|
Maria Theresa' dynasty.
|
Hapsburg
|
|
|
Dynasty that ruled Prussia during the Age of Monarchs.
|
Hohenzollern
|
|
|
Centralized Prussian Government. Made Prussian army the most efficient fighting force in Europe.
|
Frederick William I
|
|
|
Most powerful ruler in Prussian History
|
Frederick II (the Great)
|
|
|
He rejected the Pragmatic Sanction and started the war of Austrian Succession
|
Frederick II (the Great)
|
|
|
Maria Theresa keeps the throne of Austria, Austria loses Silesia.
|
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
|
|
|
Starts as a struggle between Austria & Prussia becomes a struggle between England & France.
|
Seven Years War
|
|
|
Name of the Seven Years war in America
|
French and Indian War
|
|
|
In 1650 Russia was an isolated and _________.
|
backward country
|
|
|
Title of the Russian ruler.
|
Czar
|
|
|
Czar who worked to modernize/Westernize Russia
|
Peter the Great
|
|
|
Peter the Great was an ________.
|
absolute monarch
|
|
|
Peter fought the Swedes and the Turks to gain a ________.
|
warm water port
|
|
|
Peter the Great built the new capital of Russia_______.
|
St. Petersburg
|
|
|
She followed the lead of Peter the Great in embracing Western ideas and expanding Russia's borders.
|
Cathrine the Great
|
|
|
Intellectual movembent of the 17th & 18th centuries.
|
Enlightenment
|
|
|
The Enlightenment celebrated the powers of ______.
|
Reason
|
|
|
Enlightenment thinkers promoted religious ____________.
|
toleration
|
|
|
Enlightenment thinkers sough to construct government free of_____________.
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tyranny
|
|
|
Enlightenment thinkers believed all problems could be solved with__________.
|
reason
|
|
|
The Enlightenment was prompted by the __________ (1500s & 1600s).
|
Scientific Revolution
|
|
|
Sun is the center of the Solar System.
|
Helicentric theory
|
|
|
He devoloped the Heliocentric theory.
|
Copernicus
|
|
|
He developed a telescope and supported the Helicentric theory.
|
Galileo
|
|
|
Probably more responsible for the development of scientific method than any other individual.
|
Galileo Galilei
|
|
|
Galileo was forced to recant by the ____________.
|
Catholic Church
|
|
|
Demonstrated that planets move in ellipses/ovals.
|
Johannes Kepler
|
|
|
His discoveries changed the view of the universe more than anyone else's
|
Isaac Newton
|
|
|
He laid the foundations for the scientific theories that susquently revolutionized the world
|
Isaac Newton
|
|
|
Newton developed the theory of ____________.
|
Gravity
|
|
|
Newton discovered that the universe is governed by__________.
|
natural laws
|
|
|
Newton's discoveries led people to view the universe as _________.
|
mechanical
|
|
|
He developed Calculus.
|
Isaac Newton
|
|
|
Hobbes, Locke& Rousseau were all considered _________.
|
social contract theorists
|
|
|
Because Thomas Hobbes believed; governments were created to protect people from their own selfishness, he believed they _______..
|
never had the right to revolt.
|
|
|
Form of Gorernment advocated by Thomas Hobbes.
|
Absolute Monarchy
|
|
|
He believed people had Natural Rights to life, liberty and property.
|
John Locke
|
|
|
John Locke believed the foundation of Government was a __________.
|
Social Contract
|
|
|
John Locke Believed that if people's natural rights were NOT protected, they had the_________.
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Right to revolt
|
|
|
John Locke wrote in defense of the___________.
|
Glorious Revolution
|
|
|
French Thinkers of the enlightenment.
|
Philosophes(not philosophers)
|
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|
Philosophe who campaigned against intolerance. (wrote Candide).
|
Voltaire
|
|
|
He combined enlightenment thinking into an Encyclopdia.
|
Diderot
|
|
|
Banned Diderot's Encyclopedia.
|
Catholic Church
|
|
|
Diderot was _________ for his writings in the Encyclopedia.
|
imprisoned
|
|
|
Advocated a free market economy in the Wealth of Nations.
|
Adam Smith
|
|
|
Name for complete free market economy (leave it alone).
|
Laissez faire
|
|
|
He believed the best way to protect people's liberties was by separating the power of government into legislative, executive and judicial branches.
|
Montesquieu
|
|
|
Criticized the enlightenment's excessive emphasis on reason, he believed people needed to rely more on emotion and instinct.
|
Rousseau
|
|
|
Meetings for the discussion of ideas.
|
Salons
|
|
|
He believed you should set aside traditional beliefs and rely on observation and experiment. Early proponent of the scientific method.
|
Francis Bacon
|
|
|
He believed you should doubt everything which cannont be proved, and in the search for truth you should start NOT with faith but with doubt.
|
Rene Descartes
|
|
|
The only thing Descartes found that he could not doubt was his ________.
|
own existence
|
|
|
"I think therefore I am."
|
Rene Descartes
|
|
|
Doubt and question all ideas.
|
Skepticism
|
|
|
A denial of the possibility of knowledge
|
Skepticism
|
|
|
Total skeptic.
|
David Hume
|
|
|
He denied that there was any logical basis for knowing that one thing caused another. Denied knowledge of cause & effect.
|
David Hume
|
|
|
He believed that reason could NOT be used to explain questions of metaphysics.
|
Immanuel Kant
|
|
|
Tries to answer ultimate and universal questions.
|
Metaphysics
|
|
|
Kant believed that things that cannot be perceived in ________ cannot be known.
|
experience
|
|
|
John Locke believed the mind to be a __________.
|
Tabula rasa(blank slate)
|
|
|
Religion based on reason and natural law, the Enlightenment's religion.
|
Deism
|
|
|
Belief that God started the universe like a perfect clock and then left it alone.
|
Deism
|
|
|
Some people reacted to the Enlightenment and did not believe that _________ could explain the universe.
|
reason alone
|
|
|
Monarchs who used their power to bring about positive political and social changes.
|
Enlightened Despots
|
|
|
When Britain tried to tighten its control over the colonies after the French and Indian War, the colonies _____.
|
reacted
|
|
|
Because the American colonists believed they were being taxed without their representation and thus denied their natural rights they ___.
|
declared their independence.
|
|
|
Created a government with Montesquieu's separation of powers and a federal system.
|
U.S. Constitution
|
|
|
Governmental power (sovereignty) is divided between a central government and regional governments.
|
Federalism
|
|
|
Inaugurated the liberal and democratic movementsof the 19th century.
|
French Revolution
|
|
|
Name for France's social classes.
|
Estates
|
|
|
King of France at the beginning of the French Revolution.
|
Louis XVI
|
|
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First Estate.
|
Catholic Clergy
|
|
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Second Estate.
|
Noblility
|
|
|
Bourgeoisie, artisans, and peasants.
|
Third Estate
|
|
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Middle Class
|
Bourgeoisie
|
|
|
Large Gap between the rich and the poor, heavy tax burden on the Third Estate, First & Second Estate don't pay taxes, Elightenment ideas of freedom & Equality, growth of the middle class, & wide spread famine.
|
Causes of the French Revolution.
|
|
|
In 1789 Louis XVI called a meeting of the _________ for the first time in over 150 years.
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Estates General.
|
|
|
Louis XVI called the Estates General because he needed to _____.
|
raise money
|
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|
Upper two estates wanted to vote as ______.
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Estates
|
|
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Third Estate wanted to vote as______.
|
delegates.
|
|
|
Louis XVI refused the Third Estate’s request for a _________.
|
Mass Meeting (voting as delegtes)
|
|
|
The Third Estate declared itself to be the _____________.
|
National Convention.
|
|
|
Members of the National Assembly swore to remain in session until a constituion was completed.
|
Tennis court oath.
|
|
|
Ordered all three estates to negotiate in the National Assembly.
|
Louis XVI
|
|
|
Ordered Swiss troops to Paris.
|
Louis XVI
|
|
|
French Royal Prison, attacked by Parisians to defend the National Assembly.
|
Bastille.
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Symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.
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Storming of the Bastille.
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Voted to end special privileges of Nobility & Clergy (Old Regime).
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National Assembly.
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National Assembly guaranteed freedom of speech, press, and religion. Proclaimed all male citizens were equal but did not grant rights to women.
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“Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the citizen.”
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In 1791 the National Assembly created a ________.
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Limited Constitutional Monarchy.
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Working-class men and women who pushed for more radical action during the French Revolution.
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sans-culottes
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Extreme radicals who demanded “true democracy.”
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Jacobins.
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Unpopular Queen of France.
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Marie Antoinette
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National Assembly declared war on ________.
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Austria
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Seized control of Assembly, removed king from office. (French Revolution)
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Jacobins.
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Jacobins killed people they claimed were _____________.
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Counter-revolutionaries
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Called by Radicals to rewrite French Constitution.
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National Convention
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National Convention abolished Monarchy and declared France a _______.
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Republic
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Convicted of Treason and executed by the National Convention.
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Louis XVI
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During the French Revolution European monarchies fearing the spread of revolution to their countries ____.
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allied against France
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Because of threats from within, and without, the Convention formed the ____________.
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Committee of Public Safety
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Jacobin became the head of the Committee of Public Safety.
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Robespierre
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To stop counter-revolution the committee began the ________. (500,000 people arrested, 40,000 guillotined.
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Reign of Terror
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Used by committee to deal with invading armies.
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Mass Moblization
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Whole society helps to defeat enemy.
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Mass Moblization
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Members of the Convention turned on him because they feared for their own safety. He was guillotined along with many of his followers.
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Robespierre
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Robespierre’s death ended the _________.
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Reign of Terror
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Took control of the Convention after the Reign of Terror.
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Bourgeoisie
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Conservative Government set up by the Convention after the end of the Reign of Terror.
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Directory
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Put in Command of France’s armies by the Directory.
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Napoleon.
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Seized power from the Directory in a Coup d’ etat.
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Napoleon.
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Quick overthrow of government by a small group.
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Coup d’ etat.
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As first Consul of the French Republic Napoleon assumed ____.
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Dictatorial powers.
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Used soldiers to restore order to France.
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Napoleon.
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Made the law clear and consistent in France.
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Napoleonic code
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Bonaparte became Emperor Napoleon I by __________.
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The will of the people
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Napoleon expanded his empire to include most of ________.
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Europe
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British Admiral who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Horatio Nelson.
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Because of his defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar, Napoleon gave up on _____.
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invading Britain
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Napoleon tried to keep British goods out of __________.
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European ports
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Napoleon invaded IT because IT refused to stop selling goods to Britain.
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Russia
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Was a disaster because of winter conditions.
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Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
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Tactic used by Russians against Napoleon.
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Scorcehd-earth.
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On retreat from Russia Napoleon lost _______.
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4/5 of his troops
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Grand Alliance defeats Napoleon at Leipzig Germany.
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Battle of Nations.
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After the Battle of Nations the Grand Alliance took Paris and exiled Napoleon to _______.
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Elba
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Napoleon escaped Elba and upon returning to France______.
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won widespread support
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Napoleon’s brief comeback.
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The 100 days.
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Napoleon’s final defeat to Britain and Prussia.
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Waterloo.
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After Waterloo Napoleon was exiled to _________.
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St. Helena
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Date of Waterloo.
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A.D. 1815
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Napoleon's lasting influence was that his soldiers spread the ideals of the _____ across Europe.
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French Revolution
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After the defeat of Napoleon it was held to create a new balance of power to preserve the peace.
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Congress of Vienna
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Leading figure at the Congress of Vienna.
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Metternich
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