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Age Of Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution, Exploration, Revolution Flashcards

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Italian scientist, improved the telescope, made observations that proved the Copernican view of the universe; 1633: church forced him to recant and placed him under house arrest

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Galileo Gallilei

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Believed in observation of the world, believed scientists should experiment, scientists theorize and test their theories; scientific method

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Francis Bacon

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Doubt all unless reason proves otherwise, natural world follows all basic laws, “i think, therefore i am”

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Rene Descartes

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Laws of gravitation

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Sir Isaac Newton

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Laws of planetary motion

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Johannes Kepler

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“Life is short”, life is chaos; monarchs must be absolute in order to preserve order

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Thomas Hobbes

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Believed problems exist in a state of nature, purpose of gvt should be to protect natural rights; life, liberty, and property

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John Locke

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A time period also known as the Age of Reason; 18th century Europe

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Age of Enlightenment

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Causes of Enlightenment

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The religious warfare of the 1600s, Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes

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Louis XIII’s chief minister; strengthened the monarchy’s power; took away huguenots political and military rights; set up network of spies to uncover plots by nobles

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Cardinal Richelieu

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Sought to increase France’s wealth and power by following mercantilism; granted subsidies to new industries; built roads and canals; raised tariffs on foreign goods

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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Took control of gvt and crushed a revolt led by nobles

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Cardinal Mazarin

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Built a large and efficient standing army; set up the General War Commissariat to levy taxes for the army; laid foundation for the Prussian state

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Frederick William the Great Elector

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First czar of Russia; expanded territories of Russia eastward; crushed the power of the Russian nobility (boyars); stabbed son to death

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Ivan IV

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New czar after Ivan IV; had dynasty

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Michael Romanov

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Absolutist monarch who claimed the divine right to rule; divided Russia into provinces and modernized it

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Peter the Great

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Military genius; purged Parliament of any members who had not supported him; dispersed Rump Parliament by force; got Charles I executed; set up military dictatorship

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Oliver Cromwell

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System in which ruler holds total power

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Absolutism

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Believed that he received his power from God and was responsible only to God

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James I

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Believed in divine right of kings; tried to impose more ritual on the Church of England; was beheaded.

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Charles I

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Heliocentric view, afraid of the church, published book on deathbed

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Nicholas Copernicus

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Rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while mainting their royal powers

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Enlightened absolutism

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One of the best educated and most cultured monarchs; well versed in enlightenment ideas

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Frederick the Great

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Worked to centralize and strengthen the state; worked to improve the condition of the serfs; monarch of Austria

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Maria Theresa

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Ruler of Russia; intelligent woman who favored enlightened reforms

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Catherine the Great

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What caused austrian succession?

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King Frederick II invaded Austrian Silesia

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What were the results of the Austrian Succession?

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Agreed to Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle; Maria Theresa rebuilt her army

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Who fought at the War in India?

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Britain and France

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What were the results of the War in India?

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British won b/c more persistence; Treaty of Paris signed

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Who were some of the combatants in the War in North America?

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British and French

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What were the results of the War in North America?

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Great Britain became the world’s greatest colonial power

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went around the cape and cut across the Indian Ocean to the coast of India; took on a cargo of spices. Made a profit of several thousand percent

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Vasco de Gama

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believed he could reach Asia by sailing west instead of east around Africa; reached the Americas in 1492 where he explored coastline of Cuba; believed he had reached Asia and reached all major Caribbean islands and Hondura

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Christopher Columbus

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a fleet of warships

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spanish conqueror of Mexico

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Hernan Cortes

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Venetian seamen; explored the New England coastline of the Americas for England

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John Cabot

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Aztec monarch

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destroyed Incan empire; established new capital at Lima for a new colony of the Spanish Empire

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Francisco Pizarro

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right of landowners to use Native Americans as laborers

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encomienda

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a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century

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mercantilism

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hierarchy of Latin America

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  • penninsulares: Spanish and Portuguese officials who had been born in Europe and held all important government positions
  • creoles: descendants of Europeans born in Latin America
  • mesitzoes: offspring of Europeans and Native Americans
  • mulattoes: offspring of Africans and Europeans
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large agricultural estates

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plantations

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pattern of trade connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas

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triangular trade

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the journey of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas

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Middle Passage

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treaty that called for line of demarcation extending from north to south through the Atlantic Ocean and the easternmost part of the South American continent

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France; gave the Huguenots the right to worship and to enjoy all political privileges such as holding public offices

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Edict of Nantes

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named Elizabeth as “the only supreme governor” of both church and state

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The Act of Supremacy

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the Huguenot political leader; converted to Catholicism

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Henry of Navarre

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became the leader of the Protestant nations of Europe and laid the foundations for a world empire; repealed the laws favoring Catholics; foreign policy; tried to keep Spain and France from becoming too powerful by balancing power

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Elizabeth Tudor I

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french Protestants influenced by John Calvin

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protestants in England inspired by Calvinist ideas

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belief that you received power from God and was responsible only to God

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divine right of kings

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supporters of the King

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Cavaliers or Royalists

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parliamentary forces

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Roundheads

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leader of Spain; supporter of militant Catholicism; tried to crush Calvinism in Netherlands

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King Phillip II of Spain

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divided more than three hundred states of the Holy Roman Empire into independent states and gave them power to determine their own religion and to conduct their own foreign policy

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Peace of Westphalia

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William invaded England in 1688; James sent forward his army and retreated to London

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Glorious Revolution

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set forth Parliament’s right to make laws and to levy taxes; stated that standing armies could be raised only with Parliament’s consent; impossible for kings to oppose or to do without Parliament; right of citizens to keep arms and have a jury trial

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Bill of Rights

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Russian noble

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defeat of Turks; took control of all of Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and Slavonia

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Hapsburgs of Austria

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involved France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and numerous states of Germany; caused by conflict between Protestants and Catholics

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Thirty Years War

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gvt had three branches; system of checks and balances through separation of powers

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Montesquieu

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criticism of Christianity and tolerance of religious toleration; deism; world worked like a clock

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created the Encyclopedia

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Dennis Diderot

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The Wealth of Nations; state should not interfere in economic matters; gvt should defend citizens from injustice, protect society from invasion, keep up certain public works that private individuals could not afford

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Adam Smith

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society agrees to be governed by its general will (social contract); sought a balance between heart and mind, between emotions and reason

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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