Religious War And Age Of Expansion

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Duke of Alva

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1508-1582

Military leader sent by Philip to pacify the Low Countries

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Gustavus Adolphus

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1594 to 1632
Swedish Lutheran who won victories for German Protestants in the Thirty Years War and lost his life in one of the battles

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Armada

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1588

Spanish vessels defeated in the English Channel by an English fleet, thus preventing Phillip II’s invasion of England

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Vasco de Balboa

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First European to reach the Pacific ocean in 1513

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Catherine De Medici

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1547 to 1589
The wife of Henry II (1547-1559) of France, who exercised political influence after the death of her husband and during the rule of her weak sons

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Christopher Columbus

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First European to sail to the West Indies in 1492

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Concordat of Bologna

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1516
Treaty under which the French crown recognized the supremacy of the pope over a Council and obtained the right to appoint all French bishops and abbots

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Fernando Cortez

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Conquer of the Aztecs, 1519-1521

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Defenestration of Prague

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The hurling, by Protestants, of catholic officials from castle window in Prague, setting off the Thirty Years’ War

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Bartholomew Diaz

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First European to reach the southern tip of Africa, 1487-1488

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Dutch East India Company

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Government-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies

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Edict of Nantes (1598)

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The edict of Henry IV that granted Hugenots the rights of public worship and religious toleration in France

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Elizabeth I (1558-1603)

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Protestant ruler-England, helped to stabilize religious tensions by subordinating theological issues to political considerations

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Prince Henry the navigator

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Sponsor of voyages along west African coast in 1418

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Henry IV (1589-1610)

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Formally Henry of Navarre

Ascended the French throne as a convert of Catholicism

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Huguenots

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French Calvinists

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Circumnavigator of the globe, 1519-1522

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Peace of Westphalia

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The treaty ending the Thirty Years’ War in Germany

It allowed each Prince whether Lutheran, Catholic, or Calvinist to choose the established creed in his territory

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Philip II (1556-1598)

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Son and successor to Charles V, ruling Spain and the Lower Countries

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St. Bartholemew’s Day (August 24th, 1572)

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Catholic attack on Calvinists on marriage day of Margaret of Valois to Henry of Navarre (Later Henry IV)

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Prince William of Orange (1572-1584)

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Leader of the 17 provinces of the Netherlands