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