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What is “absolutism”?

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Power is decentralized and defused

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When did John Locke say it was OK to revolt against the government?

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When the government is acting against the common interest

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When was Great Britain created?

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May 1, 1707

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What was the name for the Seven Years’ War in North America?

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French and Indian War

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5
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What are “realism” and “nominalism”?

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Nominalism separates faith and reason
Experience
Pessimistic

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What was the “Magisterial Reformation”?

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Master denominations

Calvinism, Lutheran, Church of England (Anglican)

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Who presided over the settlement that led to the Church of England, in the 16th c.?

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Elizabeth I

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What and when was the Valladolid Controversy? Why is it significant?

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Talked about what to do with the Native Americans

1550-51

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What was the “Columbian Exchange” about?

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Exchange of ideas and products between the new and old world

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What was the “Civil Constitution of the Clergy”?

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Law passed July 12, 1790 during the French Revolution

Subordinated the catholic church to the French government

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Who was Edmund Burke?

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Member of British Parliament- Leader of Whig Party

Against French Revolution; founder of modern conservatism

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When did Spain send its Armada against England?

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July 21, 1588; England won

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What ended the Thirty Years’ War?

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Treaty of Westphalia; Protestant vs Catholic

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Who commissioned the KJV?

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King James I

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Why was Charles I executed?

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Lost the English Civil war and then fled to Scotland, where he was betrayed by the Presbyterians

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What methods did Louis XIV use to control France?

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Absolutism

Kept aristocrats close; his minsters looked after things

17
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What sorts of discoveries especially drove the Scientific Revolution?

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Heliocentric, gravity, microscope; experimentation, measurement, and not relying on authority

18
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What is a deist, and what is a philosophe? Name some of each.

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Someone who believes in a higher power, but they are not involved (the clock)
People
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
Philosophe 
Rational 18th century thinkers
Not original thinkers
People
Voltaire, Diderot, Rosseau,
19
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What were the consequences of World War I?

A

German reparations

Economies crashed, led to World War II and Hitler gaining power

20
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When did the Berlin Wall fall?

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Nov 9, 1989

21
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What was British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s attitude towards the role of government?

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Government should stay out

22
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How did Adam Smith think a healthy economy should be set up?

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Market Economy
Laissez-Faire; the government should stay out and the people will do what is best for the good of the people
Opposite of socialism

23
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What effect did French participation in the American War of Independence have?

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Drove French economy; part of the start of the revolution

24
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Was the French Revolution really a “revolution,” in terms of returning to a state that had existed earlier, or did it represent a sharp break with the past?

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Sharp break with the past

25
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Name some legacies of the French Revolution.

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Nationalism
Socialism 
Equality
Metric system
Tri-colored flag
Draft
26
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When did the French Revolution begin?

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1789

27
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What was the “Revolt of the Vendée”?

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Uprising in the Vendee portion of France

28
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Who finally defeated Napoleon, and when and where? Which Great Powers united to defeat him?

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Duke of Wellington; June 1815, Waterloo, Prussians and Britain

29
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What French emperor was captured by the Prussians in 1871, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War?

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Louis-Napoleon

30
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Who were the Boers?

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Early settlers of the Transvaal and orange free state

31
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What was the Russian Duma?

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Russian Assembly with advisory or legislative functions

32
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Why did Britain industrialize before the rest of Europe?

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Had factors of production: land, labor, and capital; availability of coal, increased food production, colonial empire
Surplus=increase civilization

33
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Which European Great Powers were responsible for World War I?

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Serbia, Austria-Hungary

34
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What was a “gulag,” and what communist country used them?

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Bureaucratic institution that managed the Soviet Union forced labor camps

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