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50 Cards in this Set
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Cartier |
He claimed canada for the French |
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Champlain |
He established the first permanent French settlement in Canada |
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Columbus |
Opened up the "New World" in 1492 looking for a shorter route to the orient |
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Cortes |
overthrew the aztec Empire and claimed mexico for spain |
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Da Gama |
discovered the ocean route from portugal to the Orient |
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Magallan |
His expedition was the first to circumnavigate the world |
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Pizarro |
led the spainish conquest of the Inca Empire |
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Prince Henry |
he helped begin the age of discovery |
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Vespucci |
this portuguese explorer had a region of the new world named in his honor |
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Absolutism |
ultimate authority was in the hands of the king by divine right |
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Gustavus Adolphus |
this king of sweden developed the first standing army of conscripts |
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John Calvin |
a theologian and organizer of the protestant movement |
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Ivan IV the terrible |
first Russian ruler to take the title of tsar |
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Peter the Great |
his foremost goal was to create an army and navy to make Russia a great power |
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michael romanov |
as Russian tsar, he began a dynasty that lasted until 1917 |
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versailles |
this was the residence of the French king |
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Copernicus |
argued the universe consisted of eight spheres with the sun motionless at the center |
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Descartes |
Founder of modern rationalism and philosophy |
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Galen |
Greek physician whose teaching dominated late medieval medicine |
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galileo |
first european to make observations of the heavens through a telescope |
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margaret cavendish |
one of the most prominent female scientists of the 17th century |
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Maria Winkelmann |
the most famous of the female astronomers in Germany |
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Newton |
considered the greatest genius of the scientific revolution |
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paracelsus |
his name is associated with the diagnosis and treatment of disease |
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ptolemy |
the greatest astronomer of antiquity |
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scientific revolution |
a key factor in setting Western Civilization along its modern path |
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William Harvey |
proved the heart was the beginning point of circulation of blood in a body |
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bach |
to him music was a means to worship god |
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handel |
a great musical giant of the eighteenth century |
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John Wesley
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founded a religious movement that became known as methodism |
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Mary Wollstonecraft |
viewed as the founder of modern european feminism |
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messiah |
a rare work that appeals immediately to everyonee |
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mozart |
he composed with an ease that arguably no one has ever excelled |
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neumann |
one of the great architects of the eighteenth century |
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quesnay |
leader of the physiocrats, founders of modern economics |
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Rousseasu |
father of Romanticism |
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Voltaire |
the greatest figure of the Enlightenment |
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Catherine the great |
wanted to reform russia along lines of enlightenment ideas |
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Frederick II |
one of the best educated and most cultured monarchs of the 18th century |
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gustavus III |
this swedish king proved to be one of the most enlightened monarchs |
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junkers |
the nobility or landed aristocracy of prussia |
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maria theresa |
this austrian queen wanted to strengthen the power of the hapsburg state |
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vienna |
became the music capital of europe |
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william pitt the elder |
furthered england's imperial ambitions by acquiring canada and india |
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Bastille |
royal armory that becme a symbol of triumph to French people |
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jacobins |
political club that offered a radical solution to France's problems |
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l'ouverture |
led a slave rebellion in saint dominique |
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Napoleon |
dominated French and european history from 1799 to 1815 |
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olympe de gouges |
advocate for political rights of women in fracne |
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Robespierre |
became the most important member of the committee fo public safety |
