Religious Wars And Age Of Expansion

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Duke of Alva

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(1508-1582) military leader sent by Philip II to pacify the Low Countries

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Gustavus Adolphus

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(1594-1632) Swedish Lutheran who won victories for German Protestants in the thirty years war

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Vasco de Balboa

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First European to reach the Pacific Ocean (1513)

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Catherine de Medici

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(1547-1589) wife of Henry II of France. Exercised political influence after her husbands death 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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Conquered the Aztecs from 1519 to 1521

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Defenestration of Prague

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The hurling of catholic officials from a castle window in Prague, beginning 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, joints stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies

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Edict of Nantes

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(1598) Henry IV of France granted Huguenots the rights of public worship and religious toleration

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Elizabeth I

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(1558-1603) Protestant ruler of England who helped stabilize religious tensions by subordinating religious issues to political considerations

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Portuguese prince who sponsored voyages along west African coasts in 1418

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Henry IV

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(1589-1610) formerly Henry of Navarre. Ascended to French throne after the civil war. Quoted saying “Paris is worth a mass” after signing the edict of Nantes

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Huguenots

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French Calvinists

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Circumnavigated the globe from (1519-1522)

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Peace of Westphalia

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(1648) ended the thirty years war. Allowed each german prince to choose the creed of his territory

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Philip II

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Successor of Charles V

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Francisco Pizarro

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Conquered Peru from 1532-1533

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St. Bartholemew’s Day

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(August 24 1572) Catholic attack on Calvinists

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Prince William of Orange

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Leader of the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands

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Cardinal Richelieu

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Minister to Louis XIII. Three point plan: 1) break nobility 2) humble house of Austria 3) control the peasants