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1
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What country did Maria Theresa rule?

A

Austria at Vienna

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What country did Catherine the Great rule?

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Russia

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3
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What country did Louis XIV rule?

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France

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4
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Name the absolute ruler who was a model for the rest of Europe’s rulers?

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Louis XIV

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5
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Fill In the timeline of England’s Rulers
1603-25
1625-49
1649-58
1658-85
1685-88
1688-1702

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James I
Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
Charles II
James II
William and Mary

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6
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Which one of the leaders gave himself the title “Lord Protector”

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Cromwell

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7
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Which one of the kings was dismissed from the throne?

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James II

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8
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Who led parliament’s army during the English civil war?

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Oliver Cromwell

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9
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What did the English Bill of RIghts accomplish?

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it set limits on royal power. Liberties to people made it difficult to be Roman Catholic

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10
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Who had to sign the English Bill of Rights before taking the throne?

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William and Mary

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11
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What centuries in Europe are referred to as the Age of Reason?

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17th and 18th

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12
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Who was the Greek physician who was given the title The Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates

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13
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Who earned the title Father of Geometry?

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Euclid

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14
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Which early Greek astronomer and geographer determined the distance around the Earth?

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Eratosthenes

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In 1543, who developed a theory through Mathematics that the earth revolved around the sun?

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Copernicus

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Name the astronomer who used the telescope to confirm the earths orbit around the sun.

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Galileo Galilei

17
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What concepts did Sir Isaac Newton develope?

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law of gravity and motion and calculus

18
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Who is Halley comet named after?

A

Edmond Halley

19
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What is Sir William Herschel Famous for?

A

He discovered Uranus and His large telescopes.

20
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How did Andreas Vesalius Develope his work on human anatomy?

A

By dissecting human bodies.

21
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What was William Harveys important contribution to medicine?

A

Blood is pumped by the heart, travels through the body in blood vessels, and returns to the heart.

22
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Who developed the smallpox vaccine?

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Edward Jenner

23
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Who wrote the sceptical chymest?

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Robert Boyle

24
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Who is known as the father of modern chemistry?

A

Antoine Lavoisier

25
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Belief that man can find knowledge only through experience.

A

Empiricism

26
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A society that is free from religion.

A

Secularism

27
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Which leader of enlightenment claimed to not trust any path to truth except human reason.

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