Religious War And Age Of Expansion

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Duke of Alva (1508-1582)

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Military leader sent by Phillip N to pacify the Low Countries

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Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632)

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

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Armada (1588)

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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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Wife of Henry II (1547-1559) of France, who exercised political influence after 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

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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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Conqueror of the Aztecs 1519-1521

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Defenestration of Prague

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The hurling, by Protestants, of catholic officials from a 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

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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 Huguenots the rights of public worship and religious toleration in France

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Elizabeth I (1558-1603)

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Protestant ruler of England who helped stabilize religious tensions by subordinating theological issues to political considerations

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Prince Henry the navigator

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Sponsor voyages along West African coasts, 1418

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Henry VI (1589-1610)

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Formerly Henry of Navarre, ascended the French throne as a convert to Catholicism. Survived St. Bartholomew Day, signed Edict of Nantes, quoted as saying “Paris is worth a mass”

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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 1648

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The treaty ending the Thirty Years war in Germany. It allowed each prince-whether Lutheran, Catholic, or Calvinists to-choose the established Cree of his territory

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Phillip II (1556-1598)

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Son and successor to Charles V, ruling Spaina no the Low Countries

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Francisco Pizarro

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Conqueror of Peru 1532-1533

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St. Bartholomews day (August 24, 1572)

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Catholic attack on Calvinists on the 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 seventeen provinces of the Netherlands

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Cardinal Richelieu 1585-1642

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Minister to Louis XIII. His three point plan, (break power of nobility, humble the house of Austria, and control the Protestants) helped to send France on the road to absolute monarchy