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1492

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Columbus discovers new world

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1500

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End of the Middle Ages beginning of modern age

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1588

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Spanish Armada is defeated by England in 1588

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1620

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1620 the mayflower comes to Plymouth

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1861

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1861 is the Civil War in the United States

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1865

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United State civil war ends in 1865

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1964

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Martin Luther Junior wins and Nobel peace prize in 1964

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Prince Henry the navigator

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Promotes exploration in 1400s for Portugal

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Bartholemew Dias

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1487 gets to cape of good hope at tip of South Africa (Portugal)

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Herbs do cortz

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1519 discovers Aztecs while looking for gold

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Francisco Pizarro

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Finds Incas in Peru

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Jacques Cartier

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Discovers st Lawrence river (France)

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Samuel de Champlain

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1608 lands in Quebec

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Holland , Henry Hudson

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Found Hudson River nj ny 1609

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Jamestown

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1607 John smith, 1st permanent English settlement

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Hinduism

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Polytheism brahma universal spirit

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Buddhism

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500 bc started by guatama

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William carrey is considered what?

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Father of modern missions

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Hudson talkie founds what organization in 1865?

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China inland mission

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1609 pilgrims get kicked out by who?

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James 1st

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1865 is what war?

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Spanish American war, phillipenes & Cuba are free

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22
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Estates general support who?

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The king

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23
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Who were the huganots?

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French Protestants

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What French long persecuted huganots?

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Henry 2nd

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25
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What is a bureaucracy?

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Governing ruled behind a desk

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1779 Napoleon does what?

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Overthrows National Assembly

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1803

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Slave revolution in Haiti and Louisiana is so to the US for $15 million

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1804 Napoleon ….

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Crowns himself

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In 1806 Napoleon doesn’t let any …?

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European trade with England

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1814 Napoleon is kicked out…

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France and sent to Alba

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Who is Mohammed?

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Born in Mecca, founder of Islam

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Who is Allah?

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Muslim name for God

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What is Koran ?

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“Recitation”

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What was a Jihad?

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Islamic holy war

35
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Who are beduins?

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Arab nomads

36
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What’s another word for Viking?

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Norsman

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What is Mecca?

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Holy city of Islam

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What was the Kaaba?

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Meteor right in sudia Arabia

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2 types of non-violent resistance are?

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Sit ins & marches

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What was a feif?

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A piece of land granted from a lord to a vassal

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Serfs are farmers who worked for ____

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Nobles

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What is chivalry?

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Code of conduct for nobles and Knights

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In 732 Charles Martel tinted back the moors in what battle?

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Battle of tours

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Who crowned Charlemagne ?

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Pipe Leo 3rd

45
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Vikings were not

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Christians

46
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Barack Obama is the ___ president

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44th

47
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What was George Washington’s nickname

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Father of our country

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Wicliff greatest contribution to the English people was what

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He translated the entire Bible into English for the first time

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How did the people and the king respond to Whitecliffs work

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The King was angry and so was the church but the people are very happy

50
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The Inquisition do

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Punish Heretics

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The first printed edition of the Bible is called the what?

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Vulgate (Gutenberg bible)

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Gutenberg Bible was printed in what year

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1456

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Who was a friar that travel to Germany selling indulgences that made Luther angry

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Tetzel

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October 31 1517 Luther nailed what theses to the church door in what town

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95 theses in Wittenberg

55
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The emperor who sommunded Luther to the diet of worms was who

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Emperor Charles V

56
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Luther hid In what castle as night George

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Wartburg

57
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How long was Luther night George for?

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11 months

58
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Who began the Swiss Reformation?

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Ulrich Zwingli

59
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Where was the Swiss reformation located

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Zurich

60
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Where did John Calvin fleed to when Protestants were being persecuted in France

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Basel

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What is John Calvin’s most famous work

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The institute of the Christian religion

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What’s was the main objective of the counterreformation?

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To prevent any more Catholics from becoming a Protestant and to make many Protestants as they can to come back to the roman fold

63
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When did Switzerland win its independence from the Holy Roman Empire?

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1499

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The name Netherlands means what because it’s below sea level?

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Low lands

65
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Your name for gual is what?

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Gallia

66
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Scandinavia includes what three countries

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Norway Denmark and Sweden

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Spain is also called what

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Iberia

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Portugal is also called what

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Lusitania

69
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What is transubstanation

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The joint that the wine and bread are actual skin and blood

70
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Who was THE philosopher?

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Aristotle

71
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1440

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Gutenberg make movable type printing press

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