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Louis XIV
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only 5 years old when his father died, later became king
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Marazin
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Cardinal Richelieu is his successor. Was over Louis XIV
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Sun King
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also known as Louis XIV
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L'etat, c'est moi
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"I am the state"-Louis XIV
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bureaucracy
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"government by men who sit at desks."
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Palace of Versailles
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Louis built this off of taxes
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Jean Baptist Colbert
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The minister of finance who developed trade with the French colonies.
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Samuel de Champlain
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1608 founded Quebec the first permanent French colony in America. also known as the "the Father of New France"
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Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet
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in 1673 a missionary and fur trader explored the central Mississippi River
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Treaty of Ryswick
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established the existing state before the war
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Treaty of Urecht
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a series of agreements amond the warring nations
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Age of Enlightment
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"Dark Age" a movement that attempted to apply unaided human philosophy to all areas of man's life, happened in 1715
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Voltaire
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The Father of Enlightment
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rationalism
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man's reason is the sole criterion for truth
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Father of French Romanticism
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romanticism
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man is naturally good but society is bad
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Denis Diderot
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started the Encyclopedia
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Louis XV
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inhereted the throne in 1715 famous for "After me the deluge"
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Louis XVI
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unfit for the crown
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Estates General
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Louis called him and they had not met in over 170 years
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National Assembly
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official representation body of all the people of France
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Tennis Courts Oath
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National assembly met on June 20, 1789 and vowed to continue meeting until a national constitution had been written
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July 14, 1789
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Stormed the Bastille
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August 4 Decrees
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ended the lords priveleges of collecting land taxes from the peasants, etc.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and citizen
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"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death"
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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adopted by the national assembly but is now known as the Constituent Assembly
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Constituion of 1791
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France's first written constitution
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National Convention
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controlled by the Left which was to rule temporarily and write another constitution
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January 21, 1793
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Louis XVI was executed
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Committee of Public Safety
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12 men holding extensive police and judicial powers
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Maximillien Robespierre
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started public safety
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Reign of Terror
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over 40,000 people died durring this time
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directory
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the fifth government of France
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Napolean Bonaparte
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was a tyrant through his military genious defeating conterrevolutionaries in France and the Austrian army in Italy. Later he crowned himself Emporer
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Consulate
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a new rupublic in 1799
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Battle of Trafalgar
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October 21, 1805 the british navy destroyed a combined french and spanish fleet
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Lord Horatio Nelson
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the greatest naval hero the world has ever known
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Czar Alexander I
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withdrew his country from the Continental system and began trade with England in defiance of Napoleon.
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Battle of Leipzig
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also known as the Battle of Nations, the combined forces of Europe defeated Napoleon's new army
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Elba
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exiled Napoleon here
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1815
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Battle of Waterlou/
Napoleon's final defeat
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Duke of Wellington
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crushed the French's army, he led the british and prussian armies.
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St. Helena
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Napoleon was exiled again and his last words were "Head of the Army"
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James I
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ruled 1603-1625
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Divine Right of the Kings
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he believed that since kings were appointed by God they were above all men and their laws.
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1611
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Kings James version was printed
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1607
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Jamestown
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1620
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Plymouth
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Charles I
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James's son ruled 1625-1649
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Petition of Right
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reaffirmed liberties and rights which Englishmen had won in the past
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Eleven Years' Tyranny
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Charles ruled without parliament
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William Laud
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archbishop of Canterbury
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Long Parliament
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sat in session for 13 years
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Grand Remonstrance
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a document stating additional grivances against the king
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January 4, 1642
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Charles I led several hundred armed men into the House of Commons to arrest several Puritan leaders of Parliament
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Roundheads
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supported Parliament
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Cavaliers
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supported the king
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English Civil War
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1642 was when this officially began
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Oliver Cromwell
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placed in commands of Parliament's armies
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Ironsides
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Cromwells army's nickname
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Battle of Marston Moor
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July 2, 1644
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Battle of naseby
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June 14, 1645 Roundheads decisively defeated the Cavaliers
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Protectorate
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Oliver Cromwell's new govenment
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Richard Cromwell
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succeeded his father but quickly fell from power
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Charles II
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he had been exiled and living in France
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Treaty of Dover
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Charles secretly signed this with King Louis XIV without Parliament's knowledge
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James II
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Charles II son
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William III and Mary II
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became king and queen of England
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English Bill of Rights
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permanently established English traditional political liberties.
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Toleration Act
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adopted taking an important step toward true religious freedom in England
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Glorious Revolution
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1688, the bloodless transition of government in England
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Anne
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last stuart monarch
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1707
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United Kingdom of Great Britian established
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Phillip Spener
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a german lutheran pastor
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piestists
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assembly of piests
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August Francke
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a young professor at the German University of Leipzig
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Brethen
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German Baptists, a group that broke with the state church
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Moravians
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Unitas Fratrum
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Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf
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Moravian leader who opened Herrnhut
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Great Awakening
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1730-1760, revival spread across America
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Johnathan Edwards
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the pastor of Congregational church at Northhampton, Massachusetts
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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John Edwards famous sermon
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George Whitefield
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the best known Great Awakening evangilist
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1730-1760
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dates for Great Awakening
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1833
Definition
Slavery abolished in British Empire
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