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40 Cards in this Set
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Serf
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legal bond to land, peasent
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Saint Francis of Assisi
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Gave up his money to be a monk; founded the Franciscan order of monks
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Isabella and Ferdinand
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Castille and Aragon; married and created a unified Spain
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Tithe
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religious tax by church/town 20% of produce or money
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Lay investiture
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the practice where SECULAR rulers choose their own church leaders
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Genoa
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a major trade route
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John Locke
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Enlightment, political philospher, believed people shaped by experiences/environment
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Geneva
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(switzerland) had no information on the black death; never knew it was coming
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Venice, Florence, Milan
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Italian port cities, important trade centers
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Black Death
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most devestating natural disaster in European History
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Anasazi
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Mesa Verde, carved houses out of cliffs, southwest society
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Aztec Capital
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Tenochtitlan-Toltecs-now Mexico City
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Pizzarro
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conquered Incas Cuzco, built new capital at Lima
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Peace of Augsburg
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End to religious warefare in Germany 1555; divided Germany into protestant and Catholic sections
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Fredrick the Great
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made Prussia a world power
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Eramus
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Most known Christian Humanist, believed to live a good life on a daily basis
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Martin Luther
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Began protestant reformation, criticized indulgences, 95 thesis
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henry VIII
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man responsible for making england a protestant nation, killed wives, had no male heir
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John Calvin
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Believed in Predestination, Calvinism
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Joanus Gutenburg
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invented the printing press which helped Luther with the 95 thesis
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Christopher Columbus
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Thought he found a root to asia, really found Cuba and Hispaniola (the new world)
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Henry Hudson
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explored Hudson River Valley, Hudson Bay, and Hudson river; dutch (from Netherlands and England, Crew abandoned him
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the spice trade
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Dutch took over spice trade from England & Portugal
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divine right of kings
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a king recieves his power from god and is responsible only to god
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Portugal
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called west africa the Gold Coast
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Scandinavia
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mostly protestant
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Warsaw
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located in the Prussian Empire
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Oliver Cromwell
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Beheads the king and becomes military leader of England (dictator)
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Inca Capital
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Cuzco
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absolutism
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King has total power
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glorious revolution
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william of orange and mary invaded england and started the glorious revolution, glorious because it was bloodless (1688)
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Queen Elizabeth
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Most loved English monarch, golden speech, and defeated the spanish armada
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Toleration Act of 1689
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puritans can worship but not catholics
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30 years war
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last religious war in Europe, ended with peace of Westphalia; catholics victorious at White Mountain
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Baldassare Castiglione
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wrote book of Cortier, how to be the perfect noble
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Flying Butresses
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gothic churches
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Masaccio
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Most famous Fresco painter
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Vesalius
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wrote The Fabric of the Human Body
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constitutional convention
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scrapped old constitution, articles of confederation
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Jews
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black death
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