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23 Cards in this Set
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Who united the Franks into one Kingdom and brought Christianity to the region of Gaul?
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Clovis
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Who ruled from 1199 to 1216 and failed as a military leader (he was cruel to his subjects and alienated the church)?
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John I
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Who nailed the 95 Theses to the church door listing the problems he had with the church and reformed Christianity?
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Martin Luther
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Philosopher who held a different, more positive view of human nature. He believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves. He criticized absolute monarch and favored the idea of self government. All people are born with natural rights: life, liberty, property
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John Locke
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Came to throne in 1533 at only 3 years old. After his wife died, he begins to rule harshly, hunting down opponents and kills them with his secret police (even kills his oldest son)
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Ivan The Terrible
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Unpopular wife of King Louis XVI
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Marie Antoinette
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Self proclaimed ruler of France who reforms the country; greedy goals; eventually his empire collapses because of costly mistakes (one of them was trying to conquer Russia)
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Napoleon
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The duke of Normandy who invaded England with a Norman army
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William the Conqueror
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Became king of France in 1643; determined to reduce the power of nobility and the church; used middle class to staff government; built a massive palace at Versailles; Made France Europe's most powerful country
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Louis XIV
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Wants an heir but wife cannot have a son; separates from Catholic church so he can divorce and remarry several times.
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Henry VIII
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Became sole ruler of Russia in 1696; one of Russia's greatest reformers; continued the trend of increasing the czar's power
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Peter the Great
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Leads Parliament forces to victory; rules as a dictator until 1658
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Oliver Cromwell
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English King; needed to raise taxes for war against the French, Welsh, and Scots
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Edward I
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Craftsman from Germany who developed the printing press
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Johann Gutenberg
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Members of the Society of Jesus; focuses on founding schools, convert people to Catholicism, stop the spread of Protestantism
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Jesuits
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German journalist who introduced the world to a radical type of socialism called Marxism; argued that human societies have always been divided into warring classes; started communism
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Karl Marx
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Group that sought religious freedom from England's Anglican Church; established a colony at Massachusetts Bay
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Puritans
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Became the leader of France and formed the committee of Public Safety and began to put to death "enemies of the republic;" tried and put to death
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Max. Robespierre
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Restored her kingdom to Protestantism
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Elizabeth I
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Scottish preacher who put Calvin's ideas to work; leader of the Presbyterians
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John Knox
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Renaissance man; excelled as a painter, sculptor, architect, and poet; dome of St. Peter's; paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, and the statue of David
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Michelangelo
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Led a Spanish expedition that arrived in the Philippines
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Ferdinand Magellan
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French Protestants; opposed the Catholics; fought 8 religious wars
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Huguenots
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