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The works of William Shakespeare

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1592

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Sir Isaac Newton

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1666

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The Pilgrims land at New Plymouth

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1620

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Peter I: Czar of Russia

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1696

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Louis XIV: The Sun King

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1661

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William the Silent Leads the Dutch Revolt

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1581

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The founding of Jamestown

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1607

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The first to accurately observe a supernova

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Tycho Brahe

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First to circle the globe, named a harbor Nuevo Albion on the coast of California

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Sir Francis Drake

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Phillip II hired the duke of Alba to

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set up the Council of Troubles, to flush out the enemies of the Roman Catholic Church

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Introduced potatoes and tobacco from the new world to the Old World

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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How many Spanish survived when the English defeated the Spanish fleet in the Spanish Armada?

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10,000

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Michel de Montaigne wrote what? and had a reputation for following what philosophical movement?

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He wrote Essays
He was a skeptic

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Where did William Shakespeare grow up?

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Near London in the village of Stratford-upon-Avon

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What religion was made illegal in Japan by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1612?

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Christianity

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The Age of Reason was brought in by

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Francis Bacon when he pushed out Renaissance ideas

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Don Quixote is a story about an old knight who wrote it, and from where?

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Miguel de Cervantes, he was in jail

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Who confirmed to the Europeans that Australia, the land down under existed?

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Willem Janszoon

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What sea captain helped the settlers of Jamestown survive by forcing English gentlemen to work for food?

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John Smith

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What Canadian explorer is called the Father of New France?

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Samuel de Champlain

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Who was the separatist preacher who moved his church to Holland?

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John Smyth

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Who was the Indian woman who married John Rolfe and traveled to England and died at 21 or 22

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Motoaka also called Pocahontas

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what Roman Catholic cardinal supported the Protestants in the Thirty Years’ war with the purpose of undermining the Hapsburg family

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Richelieu

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What ship were the Pilgrims forced to abandon when they crowded onto the Mayflower for the trip to the New World?

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The Speedwell

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Who did Governor William Bradford invite to join the pilgrims at the first thanksgiving?

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Massasoit

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Rene Descartes

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French Mathematician

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John Winthrop

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Puritan founder of Boston

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Galileo Galilei

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Developed the law of falling bodies

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Pope Paul IV

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Created a ghetto for the Jews of Rome

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Rembrant

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Dutch painter

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Thomas Hooker

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Wrote the Fundamental orders of connecticut

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Who was forced by persecution to flee Moravia, but prayed for a hidden ‘seed of faith’ to grow in his homeland

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John Amos Comenius

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Why did the Scottish usually sided with the Roundheads during the English Civil Wars?

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Because they had similar views about religious freedom

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Who discovered the compounds could be broken down into Atoms

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Robert Boyle

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Who thought it was wrong to tip you hat to another person, even though many people thought it was rude not to do so?

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George Fox

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Who after a near death experience sewed a testimony of his faith into the lining of his jacket?

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Blaise Pascal

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Who was in charge of finances in Louis XVI’s kingdom when mercantilism flourished and France grew rich?

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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What group worshiped in secret?

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the covenanters

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Kowtowing, knocking ones head on the ground, was a gesture of respect that was expected by which Chinese emperor?

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K’ang-hsi

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Who is known for discovering the laws of gravity?

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Isaac Newton

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Who wrote the famous allegory Pilgrims Progress?

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John Bunyan

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Who was known for establishing a colony of tolerance, where all religions were allowed?

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William Penn (Pennsylvania)

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What people were made slaves to work in the production of sugar?

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West Africans

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Who signed the Declaration of Indulgence to promote religious tolerance, but it backfired and his daughter and her husband took the throne of England?

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James II

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Who defended the Glorious Revolution in England by writing the Second Treatise of Government?

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John Locke

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Who listened to forbidden stories with a cousin and believed herself to be “ bewitched.”

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Elizabeth Parris

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Who strongly disagreed with Hans Reist of the Meidung, or the practice of shunning disobedient church members.

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Jakob Amman

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Who fought against the Swedes in the Great Northern War to gain access to the Baltic Sea?

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Peter I

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Who was ill most of his life, but wrote hundreds of hymns for the church in England?

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Isaac Watts

50
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Write a paragraph about three things you have learned this semester

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3 things

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