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Who was William the IIi of Orange

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military leader of the Netherlands

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reasons for Dutch prosperity

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Agriculture
Trade and Finance
urban consolidation
overseas empire

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What were the two models of European political organization?

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Parliamentary Monarchy and Political absolutism.

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Who was James the I and what did he do?

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Rarely called Parliament into session, “impositions”, catholic sympathies, and had corrupted courts.

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James the I’s foreign policy was suspicious because why?

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Creating peace with Spain did not help German Protestants and he relaxed penal laws.

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What were Charles I’s parliamentary measures?

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Levying Tariffs/Duties and Collins discontinued taxes and forced loans.

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what did the Petition of Right do?

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It dissolved Parliment

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What war was brought about because of Charles the I’s religious policies?

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The Bishops War

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Long-Parliment

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1640-1660

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What was the Trienial Act?

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Required that Parliament meet every three years (min)

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English Civil War

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Charles I forms a military
Parliament forms counter militia
Gentlemens Warfare

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Oliver Cromwell’s England

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Dictatorship; new army, no pariament.

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Treaty of Dover

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France and Spain allied against the Netherlands and England in 1670.

Bad for Protestants.

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The test act.

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Protestant act against Transubstantiation in 1672.

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The Popish Plot

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Titus Oates spreads Charles I murder plans in 1678.

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The Glorious Revolution

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William and Mary came into power and passed the English Bill of Rights.

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Act of Settlement in 1701

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George the I of the House of Hanover inherits the throne.

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Act of Union 1707

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Units Scotland and England when Anne Stuart, the last Stuart monarch, comes to power.

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who was Robert Walpole

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the first prime minister

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who was Cardinal Armand Richelieu?

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Louis the XIII’s regent who ruled with heavy handed absolutism.

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Louis XIV’s relationship with the Nobility

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Built Versailles and live with them and they acted as his servents.

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What was the significance of Versailles?

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It moved the entire gov. and it was fucking huge.

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Louis XIV reigned with absolutism/without absolutism?

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without.

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Religious Policy of Louis XIV

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Redo cation of the Edict of Nantes

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What were the Jansenists

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Formed in opposition of the Jesuits. Part of the council of Trent and Catholic bases.

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Revocation of The Edict of Nantes reactions

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Mass exodus of Protestants. Labeled France as Anti-Protestant causing alliances to be formed against them.

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Who was John Law

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Finance Minister for Louis the XIV

27
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what wars were fought during Louis XIV’s reign?

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war of Decolution
France-Dutch wars
9 years war
war of Spanish succession

28
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War of Spanish Succession

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Created the Grand Alliance

The treaties of Utrecht and Rastatt happened and the Gibraltar exchanged foreign powers hands.

29
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What did John Law create?

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The Mississippi Bubble

30
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Ivan IV’s reign is known as..?

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The time of Troubles

31
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The great northern war was over what?

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te Baltic Sea

32
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significance of St. Petersburg

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Thousands die and it’s big and the first like warm port for Russia

33
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Why did Peter the Great have his reforms?

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To westernize Russia

34
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Legacy of Peter the Great

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St. Petersburg

Made Russia Relevent

35
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how did Galileo feel nature should be explained

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mathematically

36
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17th century scientists were called what?

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Natural Philosophers

37
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Nicolas Colernicus

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Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres -Literary Work

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Tycho Brahe’s contribution?

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His research

39
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Johannes Kepler decided what?

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Elliptical Orbits

40
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Francis Bacon

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Father of Empiricism
Inductive Reasoning (scientific method) and wrote Novem Organum
41
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Dualism

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Mind vs Body

42
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Knowledge to Francis Bacon

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everything learned should be useful

43
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Thomas Hobbs literary work

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Leviathan

44
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Thomas Hobbs social views and view on humanity itself

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Absolutism to the point of no civil rights and we are all condemned at birth.

45
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John Lockes Literary Works

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Two Treatises of Government
Letter of Toldration
Essay concerning Human Understanding

46
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John Lockes view on people’s rights and the role of the government?

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Natural rights with little to none involvement of the gov. it should be for the people and in response to the people.

47
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Tabular Rasa

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Behaviorism

48
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Blaise Pascals literary work

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Rensèes

49
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Blaise Pascals views on god and mankind

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God exists and we are unworthy of him

50
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Pascals famous wager

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Leap of Faith

51
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who was prosecuted in the witch hunts?

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80% were women (single, 40+, midwives)

52
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Causes of the Witch-Hunts

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Lack of education and superstition

53
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Results of witch hunts

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70-100k dead

55
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Physic-Theology

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the religious understanding deducted from natural observations.