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21) African ruler from 1623 - 1663. Led spirited resistance against the Portuguese. Had male
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A) Queen Nzinga
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_22) A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1517, he wrote statements of belief attacking the lavish church
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E) Martin Luther
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23) Also known as the Jesuits; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism.
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N) Society of Jesus
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24) His/Her work symbolized the scientific revolution--direct observation and mathematical reasoning; Published Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Offered mathematical explanations of laws that govern movements of bodies
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O) Issac Newton
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25) Scottish economist who applied natural laws to the economy and believed that private enterprise and free trade as favorable for society.
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D) Adam Smith
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_26) Challenged the notion of a Geocentric universe and instead presented a Heliocentric view of the universe instead.
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H) Copernicus
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27) Also known as Job ben Solomon was born in Senegal West Africa, and was enslaved Muslim who was a victim of the Atlantic slave trade. After securing his/her own freedom willingly purchased slaves.
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C) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
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28) Ruler of Arabia 1740’s; support of Wahhabi Islam allowed the creation of the Central Arabian reformist state that raised tombs, crushed "false idols", and enforced Islamic law.
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R) Muhammad Ibn Saud
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29) Abducted & sold into slavery in Western Africa, and gave a detailed account of the terrible conditions faced by slaves during the Middle Passage. Pointed out the difference between the treatment of slaves on a plantation system and slaves who were kept inside the households of their masters
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J) Olaudah Equiano
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30) Scientist who built the first telescope and proved that planets and moons move. Persecuted by the Catholic Church for supporting Copernicus' ideas.
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P) Galileo Galilei
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31) French Protestants. The Edict of Nantes (1598) freed them from persecution in France, but when that was revoked in the late 1700s, hundreds of thousands fled to other countries, including America
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I) Huguenots
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32) An Afro-Peruvian slave who became a non-slave religious servant in the Roman Catholic Church after escaping a fall into a deep well. He/she was notable for mystical visions and claims of communicating with the spirits, and sought a life of religious spirituality
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B) Ursula de Jesus
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33) Biologist who developed theory of evolution of species (1859); argued that all living species evolved into their present form through the abiltiy to adapt in a struggle for survival
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Q) Charles Darwin
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34) An apparition said to have appeared to a Mexican farmer (Juan Diego) in 1531 that exerted a powerful attraction to Mesoamerica's surviving Amerindians and became an icon of Mexican identity
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L) Virgin of Guadalupe
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Ruled the Kingdom of the Kongo (1509-1543). Opposed the practice of kidnapping of free men to sell into slavery; also sought to import Portuguese priests, school teachers, drugs, and medical practitioners
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F) King Affonso
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