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Early Modern Period Flashcards

1
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Spain revived what

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Mita

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Galleons

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Deep draft round hulled sailing ships

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3
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Tech

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Ships guns and cannons

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4
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Portuguese traveled down what coast

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African

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Cape of good hope

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S tip of Africa. Navigated to find a direct to India

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Da Gama

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First European to reach India

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Christopher Columbus

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Initiated European discoveries

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Ferdinand Magellan

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1st to circumnavigate the world looking for passage to England

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Pax mongolica ending results

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Silk Road not as safe, Ottoman Empire controlled eastern Mediterranean Sea and taxed trade

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10
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Turning point of Spanish decline

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British defeats Spanish Armada

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11
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Line of demarcation

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Line pope drew around the world to split Spain and Portugal

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12
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Religious refugees went to

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North America

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13
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Latin America colonies came for

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Economic

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14
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French have better relationship with

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Natives

7 years war

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15
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East India company

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Indian Ocean

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16
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West India company

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Atlantic and gulf

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17
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Didn’t enslave

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Natives

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18
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Effects of Columbian exchange

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Spread disease
Introduced potatoes
Bring horses and wheel to America

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19
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Leapanto

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Spanish victory vs Ottoman Empire

Spanish took control of med

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Mercantilism

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Economic theory that stressed gov promotion of limitation of imports to improve taxes

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21
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Better diet=

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Pop. Boom

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22
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China and Japan trade policy

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Didn’t initiate

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23
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Vasco de balboa

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First spainard to start settlement on mainland of South America

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24
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Francisco Pizarro

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Led conquests of incas

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25
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Seven years war

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Resulted in Prussian seizures of Austria

English seizures of India and North America

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Treaty of Paris

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New France goes to England in exchange for French sugar island

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27
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New focus on what families

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Nuclear

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28
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Cape colony

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Dutch colony at cape of good hope

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29
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French power destroyed in

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India

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30
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Won concerts in Philippines

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Spanish missionaries

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31
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Invention of

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Gutenberg printing press in vernacular languages so increase in literacy

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32
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Indulgences

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Grants a person absolution from punishment for their sins

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33
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Martin Luther

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Catholic Priest who’s excommunication started Protestant church
Wrote 95 theses

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34
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John Calvin

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Started Huguenots (French Protestant) and puritans

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35
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King Henry VIII

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Wanted male heir

Pope wouldn’t let him divorce wife so he stated Church of England

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36
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John Knox

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Presbyterian Scotland

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37
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People like Protestant because it was more

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Egalitarian

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38
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Jesuits

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Missionaries of Catholic Church

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39
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Council of Trent

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Got rid of much of church’s corruption wrote index of prohibited books

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40
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Henry IV

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Converted to Catholicism

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41
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Thirty years war

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Most of the fighting in Germany most of Europe

Resulted in peace of Westphalia which allowed each area of Roman Empire to decide on on of 3 religious options

42
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French civil war

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Catholics kill Huguenots

43
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Scientific revolution

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People start turning away from religion

44
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English civil revolution

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Puritan revolution

Got rid of monarch than restarted

45
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Glorious revolution

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No one dies

William and Mary of the Netherlands come to rule James II flees

46
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English bill of rights

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Assured civil liberties signed by William and Mary

47
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Intendants

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Royal officials sent out to execute orders of central gov

48
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Louis XIV

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Dictator
refused to share power
Economic problems through war

49
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Scientific advancements

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Empiricism, Royal academy of science, newtons principia

50
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Nicola Copernicus

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Heliocentric

51
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Johannes Kepler

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Elliptical orbit

52
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Struggle between science and

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Catholic Church

53
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Effects of scientific revolution

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Technology,weakening of church, enlightenment

54
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Deism

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Belief that there is a god but he doesn’t intervene

55
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Proletariac

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Working class

56
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Adam smith

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Wrote wealth of nations (capitalism)

57
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Commercial revolution

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Shift from local trading to international new world

58
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Causes of commercial revolution

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European colonies, new ocean trade routes, population growth, inflation

59
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Joint stock companies

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Owned by investor who bought stock in them

60
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Causes of inflation

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Too much silver

61
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Many Philippines became

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Christians

62
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British and Dutch gov

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Constitutionalist

63
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French gov

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Absolutist

64
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2 parts of Renaissance

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Italian and Flemish

65
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Francesco and Boccaccio

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Humanists secular

66
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Nieolo Machiaveli

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Similar to Thomas Hobbs against enlightenment wrote the prince

67
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Italy declines because

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Atlantic replaces med

68
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Francis 1

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First king of France

69
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Ivan III

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Ivan the great
Claimed descent from rurik
Freed Russia from Mongols

70
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Expanded territory

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Continuity

71
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Adopted Mongol social habits but remained

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Christian reduced Literacy rate

72
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Russia called

73
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Increase in

74
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Ivan IV

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Has good and bad years, killed heir, attached authority of boyars
Continues Russian expansion

75
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Cossacks

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Similar to pioneers, peasants recruited to settle newly seized land

76
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Russian expansion caused central Asian nomads to

77
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Better contact with

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Western Europe

78
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Expansion caused Russia to be

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Multicultural

79
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Time of troubles

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Boyars competed for power
The assembly of boyars chose a member of Romanov family to be tsar
Civil war boyars vs nobles

80
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Trade fur grain and timber

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Continuity

81
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Romanov dynasty

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Elected at the end of the times of trouble ruled for 300 years

82
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Old believers

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Russians who refused to accept reforms of Alexis Romanov exiled

83
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Alexis Romanov

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Michaels successor
Abolished assembly of nobles
Tried to purge church of Mongol influence
Restraints on serfs

84
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Michael

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Established order 
Drove out facism 
Expanded
Waging war on Poland and captured
Kiev
85
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Economy based on

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Agriculture

86
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Peter I

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Growth of absolutism/conquest 
Parts of economy and culture become westernized 
Peter the Great
Improved military 
Weaponry
Eliminated noble courts 
Encouraged women's rights
87
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Westernization didn’t affect

88
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Manufacturing

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Mining and making guns

89
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Grand embassy

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Peter goes to Western Europe and brings back ideas of economy and culture

90
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Catherine the great

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German born
Ruled after assassination of her husband
Gave appearance of enlightened ruled
Maintained nobility by giving them power over the serfs

91
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Pugachev rebellion

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Led by emelian pugachev who claimed to be tsar. Catherine crushed it

92
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Won new territory from

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Ottoman Empire

93
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Encouraged exploration all the way to

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The Americas

94
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Partition of Poland

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Division of Poland

Eliminated independent Poland

95
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Russia closed off doors to Western Europe during

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French Revolution

96
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Russian gov actively promoted

97
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Manufacturing and technology ____ west

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Lagged behind

98
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Nation-state

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Same culture through out

99
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Fredrick the great

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Ruled Prussia
Enlightened despot (absolute monarch) bureaucracy
100
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No merchant

101
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Who opened the first navigation in Portugal

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Prince Henry the navigator

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