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Leader at the peak of the Mughal Empire, year?
Akbar, 1500
Built the Taj Mahal
Shah Jahan
Rival ruling family in Prussia to the Hapsbergs
Hohenzollern
"Sun King", father of absolutism, Bourbon
Louis XIV
Name of Louis XIV's palace
Versailles
Victor of the English civil war, overthrew ______, named Great Britain, year?
Crommwell, Charles I, 1640's
Order of kings of england:
Elizabeth, James I, Charles I, Crommwell, Charles II, James II
Who takes over in the Glorious Revolution, what type of government is installed, year?
William and Mary, constitutionalism, 1688
What were William and Mary forced to sign after they took over England?
English Bill of Rights
Portuguese ruler that initiated English exploration, what was his goal, year?
Henry the Navigator, bypass the Ottoman empire, mid 1400s
Victor of the English civil war, overthrew ______, named Great Britain, year?
Crommwell, Charles I, 1640's
Order of kings of england:
Elizabeth, James I, Charles I, Crommwell, Charles II, James II
Who takes over in the Glorious Revolution, what type of government is installed, year?
William and Mary, constitutionalism, 1688
What were William and Mary forced to sign after they took over England?
English Bill of Rights
Portuguese ruler that initiated English exploration
Henry the Navigator
Explorer that rounded Africa, made it to India and back, year?
Vasco de Gama, 1498
Economic theory that equates power with wealth, drove exploration
mercantialism
Example of mercantialism, year?
Navigation Acts, 1651m
Spread of things, people, culture, disease, etc. between the Old World and New World
Columbian Exchange
Defeated and destroyed natives of Mexico for Spain, year?
Cortez, 1519
Conqueror of the Incans
Fransisco Pizarro
Theory that earth is the center of the univserse
Geocentrism
Main advocate of heliocentrism, year?
Copernicus, early 1500s
Movement that started with Copernicus
Scientific Revolution
Advocate of scientific reasoning and methods, "I think, therefore, I am"
Decartes
Applied reasoning and nature to social and political affairs
Enlightenment
3 pillars of the Enlightenment
Reason, Nature, and Progress
Enlightenment thinker, supporter of Absolutism, believed men are naturally bad
Hobbes
Key thinkers of the Enlightenment:
Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau
Welcomed Western ideas to Russia
Peter the Great
Dynasty that closed China off from the World, years they ruled?
Ming Dynasty, 1300s-1600s
Dynasty that replaced the Ming Dynasty, from Manchuria
Qing Dynasty
Dynasty that closed off Japan, year?
Tokugawa
Enlightened absolutist in Russia, conquered the Crimean peninsula
Katherine the Great
Main advocate of Laissez-Faire capitalism, name of book he wrote?
Adam Smith, "Wealth of Nations"
Key ideas of Laissez-Faire capitalism
supply and demand, no government involvement, economy will be driven by the "invisible hand"
Leg of Triangular trade that brought slaves to the New World
Middle Passage
First nation in the Western Hemisphere to eliminate slavery, year?
Haiti, late 1700s
Event that set off Latin American revolutions
Napoleon's invasion of Spain
Event that got French involved in American Revolution
Battle at Saratoga
Three estates in France
1st: Clergy, 2nd:Nobility, 3rd: everyone else
Revolt in France, considered Independence Day
Bastille Day
Leader who conducted the Reign of Terror, executed anyone who opposed him or government
Robspierre
Legal system in France in 1800 that incorporated Enlightenment ideas
Napoleonic Code
Name for Napoleon's second term
Hundred Days
Industrial Revolution began in _____ in the _____'s with the _______ industry
Britain, 1700, Textile
Freed serfs, gave them land, but, it was poor quality land, they had to pay for it, and they had no rights
Alexander
Karl Marx based the Communist Manifesto on who's ideas?
Haggal- The Dialect
Haggal states in the Dialect that there is a ______: the way things are, an _______: the way things aren't, and a _____: change
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis