Final Flashcards

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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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5
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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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7
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1964

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Martin Luther Junior wins and Nobel peace prize in 1964

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8
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Prince Henry the navigator

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Promotes exploration in 1400s for Portugal

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9
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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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10
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Herbs do cortz

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1519 discovers Aztecs while looking for gold

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11
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Francisco Pizarro

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Finds Incas in Peru

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12
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Jacques Cartier

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Discovers st Lawrence river (France)

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13
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Samuel de Champlain

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1608 lands in Quebec

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14
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Holland , Henry Hudson

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Found Hudson River nj ny 1609

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15
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Jamestown

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1607 John smith, 1st permanent English settlement

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16
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Hinduism

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Polytheism brahma universal spirit

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17
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Buddhism

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500 bc started by guatama

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18
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William carrey is considered what?

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Father of modern missions

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19
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Hudson talkie founds what organization in 1865?

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China inland mission

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20
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1609 pilgrims get kicked out by who?

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James 1st

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21
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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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24
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What French long persecuted huganots?

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Henry 2nd

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What is a bureaucracy?
Governing ruled behind a desk
26
1779 Napoleon does what?
Overthrows National Assembly
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1803
Slave revolution in Haiti and Louisiana is so to the US for $15 million
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1804 Napoleon ....
Crowns himself
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In 1806 Napoleon doesn't let any ...?
European trade with England
30
1814 Napoleon is kicked out...
France and sent to Alba
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Who is Mohammed?
Born in Mecca, founder of Islam
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Who is Allah?
Muslim name for God
33
What is Koran ?
"Recitation"
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What was a Jihad?
Islamic holy war
35
Who are beduins?
Arab nomads
36
What's another word for Viking?
Norsman
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What is Mecca?
Holy city of Islam
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What was the Kaaba?
Meteor right in sudia Arabia
39
2 types of non-violent resistance are?
Sit ins & marches
40
What was a feif?
A piece of land granted from a lord to a vassal
41
Serfs are farmers who worked for ____
Nobles
42
What is chivalry?
Code of conduct for nobles and Knights
43
In 732 Charles Martel tinted back the moors in what battle?
Battle of tours
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Who crowned Charlemagne ?
Pipe Leo 3rd
45
Vikings were not
Christians
46
Barack Obama is the ___ president
44th
47
What was George Washington's nickname
Father of our country
48
Wicliff greatest contribution to the English people was what
He translated the entire Bible into English for the first time
49
How did the people and the king respond to Whitecliffs work
The King was angry and so was the church but the people are very happy
50
The Inquisition do
Punish Heretics
51
The first printed edition of the Bible is called the what?
Vulgate (Gutenberg bible)
52
Gutenberg Bible was printed in what year
1456
53
Who was a friar that travel to Germany selling indulgences that made Luther angry
Tetzel
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October 31 1517 Luther nailed what theses to the church door in what town
95 theses in Wittenberg
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The emperor who sommunded Luther to the diet of worms was who
Emperor Charles V
56
Luther hid In what castle as night George
Wartburg
57
How long was Luther night George for?
11 months
58
Who began the Swiss Reformation?
Ulrich Zwingli
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Where was the Swiss reformation located
Zurich
60
Where did John Calvin fleed to when Protestants were being persecuted in France
Basel
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What is John Calvin's most famous work
The institute of the Christian religion
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What's was the main objective of the counterreformation?
To prevent any more Catholics from becoming a Protestant and to make many Protestants as they can to come back to the roman fold
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When did Switzerland win its independence from the Holy Roman Empire?
1499
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The name Netherlands means what because it's below sea level?
Low lands
65
Your name for gual is what?
Gallia
66
Scandinavia includes what three countries
Norway Denmark and Sweden
67
Spain is also called what
Iberia
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Portugal is also called what
Lusitania
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What is transubstanation
The joint that the wine and bread are actual skin and blood
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Who was THE philosopher?
Aristotle
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1440
Gutenberg make movable type printing press