Chapter 3 and 4 Flashcards

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Henry the Navigator

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Portuguese Ruler who explored the south Atlantic Ocean

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Colombian Exchange

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Trading of goods from the New World back to Eirope

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3
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Quinto

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Spanish tax on presious metals.

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Mercentalism

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Mother country trading with other countries, but the colonies could not trade.

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Consumer Revolution

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This was fostered because of all the new banking out of Florence and the new gold and silver in the new world.

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Thirty Years War

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Started as a religious conflict, but eventually it led to the descruction of Central Europe, and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Ivan the Terrible

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He solicited the role as czar, and expanded Russia. He limited the boyars too. (Nobles).

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Ivan the Terrible

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He Solidifie the role as czar, and expanded Russia. He limited the boyars too. (Nobles).

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Fredrick Willaim

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He got absolute rule in Prussia the Rhine and Brandenburg. He weakened the Junkers (nobles).

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Henry lX

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He issued the Edict of Nantes, granting religious toleration towards the French Hugnuenots.

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War of Devolution

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France’s failed war to get the Spanish Netherlands.

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Louis Xlll

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Made France a powerful nation especially by the help of Cardinal Richelieu.

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Gentry

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A British noble who gained his wealth by land.

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Thirty-Nine Articles

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A Protestant doctrine that soothed the British, except for the Puritans.

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Habeas Corpus

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Called for reforms in the legal system of England by the Whigs in 1679. Speedy trial, no double Jeporady and requiring just cause for contnued imprisonment.

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Glorious Revolution

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William and Mary accepted the English Bill of Rights in 1689 and Parliment came to rule England.

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Regents

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A oligarchy of merchants that led the Netherlands to their Golden Age. The Netherlands became one of the most prospirous countries In Europe.

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Rationalism

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The concept that humans could uncover the nature laws that govern the universe.

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Enclosure Movement

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This happened in England in the late 17th to the early 18 century where farmers fenced off the open fields, and started using nitrogen fixed plants to keep the land from laying fallow.

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Deism

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God is a clockmaker that doesn’t have intervene in the order of things. This came out of Newton’s theories.

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Rousseau

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He said that civilization corrupted humankind, and life in the state of nature is purer, freer and more vigorous. Man should go back to nature.

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Montesquieu

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Checks and balances in government.

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David Hume

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The human mind is nothing but a bundle of impressions

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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First true feminist.

25
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Voltaire

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Crush the infamous thing.