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Unit 4- Early Modern World Flashcards

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Edict of Nantes

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Recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France, but it also gave the Huguenots the right to worship and to enjoy all political privileges

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According to mercantilists, the prosperity of a nation depended on…

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A large supply of silver and gold

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How did the Dutch try to dominate the clove trade?

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By limiting cultivation of the spice to one island and forcing others to stop growing and trading the spice

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Louis XIV maintained complete authority as monarch by…

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removing threats from power.

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Peter the Great

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  • Russian czar
  • absolutist monarch who claimed the divine right to rule
  • reorganized the Russian army
  • was determined to westernize Russia
  • built St. Petersburg
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The work of William Shakespeare is the best example of … literature.

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Dramatic and tragedy

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The English seized … and renamed it New York.

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the colony of New Netherland

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… controlled the Spice Islands, until driven out by the Dutch.

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The Portuguese

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The … movement had a profound effect on education.

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humanism

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The … pattern of trade connected Europe, Africa, and Asia to American continents.

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Triangular trade

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… were known to Europeans as the Spice Islands.

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The Moluccas

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What was the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century?

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Mercantilism

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What countries were involved in the Thirty Years’ War?

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All major European powers other than England became involved

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What did Oliver Cromwell’s defeat of the kings forces allow him to do?

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  • have Charles I executed
  • dispersed Parliament
  • set up a military dictatorship
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What did Christian Humanists believe?

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they thought that if people read the classics, especially the basic works of Christianity, they would become more pious

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What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

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Defined a line that would extend from north to south through the Atlantic Ocean and the easternmost part of the South American continent; was signed to resolve the concerns between Spain and Portugal

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What happened as a result of the publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses

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  • Luther was excommunicated from the Church

- Lutheranism was formed

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Absolutism

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A system of government in which a ruler holds total power

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Divine rights of kings

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The belief that kings received their power from God and are responsible only to God

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What was the name of the journey of slaves from Africa to America?

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The Middle Passage

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Who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India?

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Bartholomeu Dias

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What was the first Protestant Faith?

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Lutheranism

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What is Christine de Pizan best known for?

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Her works written in defense of women

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Why were European rulers and merchants determined to gain control of the islands of Southeast Asia?

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They wanted to control the Spice Islands and the spice trade

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Glorious Revolution

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when William and Mary ‘invaded’ England and overthrew James II with almost no bloodshed

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Peace of Westphalia

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  • officially ended the Thirty Years’ War in Germany in 1648

- stated that all German states could determine their own religion

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Who was Cardinal Richelieu?

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as Louis XIII’s chief minister, he had Catholic France join Protestant Sweden in fighting the Catholic Hapsburgs

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Who were the Huguenots?

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French Protestants influenced by John Calvin

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Why was Leonardo da Vinci an excellent example of Renaissance Italy’s social order?

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he is an excellent example of the new view of humans beings: the well-rounded person was capable of achievements in many areas of life
*da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician

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