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How many soldiers were in Phillips army and how did this happen?

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Philip was wealthy and that allowed them to have a army and 50,000 soldiers

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What year did the pope call on the catholic prince to take up arms against the ottoman empire

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The pope called on the catholic prince in 1571 to take up arms against Ottoman Empire

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What was Don Quixote Dela Mancha

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A novel published in 1605 that is often called the birth of the modern European novel.

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What did monarchs promise to the middle class

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A peaceful climate for business to the middle-class people

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What was the response one Philip raised taxes in the Netherlands and took steps to crush Protestantism

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In 1556 protestant mobs slept her Catholic churches Philip then started a war

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How many years did the dutch fight the Spanish/ what year did it end

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For 11 years; this fighting ended in 1579

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Who is the greatest Dutch artist of the 1600s? What techniques did he use?

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Rembrandt Van Rijn ; He used sharp contrast of light and shadow to draw attention to his focus

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Who had the largest delete of ships in the 1600s? How did they use it

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The dutch; they use the fleet to dominate trade

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What caused the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre in Paris

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Many Huguenot nobles was in Paris

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King Henry passed the Edict of Nantes which was what

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Instead of warring with the Huguenots they could live in peace and in some of the towns they could build their own houses of worship

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What did Michael De Montaigne create to communicate his thoughts about the meaning of life

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Created the essay.

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What did France turn to when they regained political power

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France turn torch skepticism

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Why did most people in France hate Mazarin

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He increase taxes and strengthen the central government

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What goals did the Minister of finance help King Louis XIV achieve

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Economic political and cultural brilliance

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Where did Louis build a palace, where him and hundreds of nobles lived

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Versailles

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Why did Louis build the palace in the center of the arts

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So people could no longer glorify God but to glorify and support his absolute rules

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Who is the most powerful country in Europe in the 1600s

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France

18
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What caused France to plunge into debt

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Poor harvest and including constant warfare

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What important event started in1618 and what caused this event

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The 30 year war; it happen by Lutherans join together and so did the Catholics to form an army because they felt threatened by Calvinism

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Who was Ferdinand II and why didn’t the protestants trust him

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He ruled the Czech Kingdom of Bohemia And was head of the Habsburg family. They did not trust him because he was a foreigner and a Catholic

21
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How did Ferdinand II pay his army of 125,000

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He allow them to plunder or Rob German villages

22
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When did Gustavus die and who took over after he died

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He died in 1632; cardinal Richlieu and cardinal Mazarin was left in control

23
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How much did the German population drop after the war

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From 20 million to about 16 million

24
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How did land owning Nobles limit the Kings power

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By allowing them little income no law courts and no standing army

25
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What did Charles VI spend a lot of is time trying to figure out

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He tried to figure out how he was going to still ruled the land after he died

26
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What did Frederick’s actions start

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The seven-year war

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Who was the youngest ruler of Russia

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Czar

28
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Peter sure the throne with his

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Half brother

29
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What was the window on Europe that Peter had so desperately wanted? Why did peter want it so badly

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A seaport that makes it easier to travel west

30
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When the army force thousands of unlucky serfs to leave home and work in St. Petersburg around how many people died in terrible working conditions

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25,000 or hundred thousand people

31
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What were boyars

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Struggle for power and heirs of Czars died mysteriously

32
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When did Ivan’s “bad period “Begin

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1560

33
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Why was Peter referred to as Peter the Great

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One of Russia’s greatest reformers

34
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When was England and Scotland united and who united them

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1707; king James

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Who took over the throne when King James died

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Charles the first

36
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What year did the Parliament passed a law to limit royal power

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1628

37
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When did William lead his army to London and where did he flee two

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1688; James fled to France

38
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Who was the first king of England

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King James

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What group oppose James and I group called the Tories

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Whigs

40
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The bloodless overthrow of king James the second is called what

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Glorious revolution

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The leader of the majority party in Parliament, head of the cabinet is called the what

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Prime Minister

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