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| (1618–1648) a series of wars in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe. Initially, began as Protestant and Catholic states fought, though they all were inside the HRE. It developed into general conflict involving most of the great powers of Europe. |
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| (1648) a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in Germany. Ended the Thirty Years' War. |
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| search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving panic, or hysteria. 1480 to 1750, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 executions |
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| (1564-1616) English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". |
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| (1605-1615) a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Follows the adventures of Alonso Quixana, a hidalgo (a member of the Spanish nobility, who didn’t pay taxes) who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. |
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| (1473-1543) Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center |
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| astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System |
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| (1587-1657) English physician. He was the first to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart |
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| (1596-1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and writer. The Cartesian coordinate system, also one of the key figures in the scientific revolution. |
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| (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. He served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Has been called the creator of empiricism, created scientific method. |
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| A political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler or other authority |
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| (1643-1715) Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France. He reigned for 72 years. Believed in divine right. Continued creating a centralized state governed from the capital. Built Palace of Versailles, absolutism in France endured until the French Revolution |
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| series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, Fronde was divided into two campaigns: The parlements and the nobles. The Fronde des parlements, was directly after the Peace of Westphalia. |
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| A royal palace. The court of Versailles was the center of political power in France when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital after the beginning of the French Revolution. A symbol of the system of absolute monarchy. |
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| Advisory councils for the monarchs, to represent barons, commoners and the church. |
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| English military and political leader and later “Lord Protector” of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Puritan leader inside the Parliament, Spends money to create a professional army that is highly trained. Idealized: merit based army, rather than name or class. Defeated the Cavaliers. Brought Charles I to trial and conviction. Arrested and tried for treason, sentenced to death. |
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| (1688) the overthrow of King James II, by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch state-holder William of Orange. |
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| 1689, a restatement of the Declaration of Right. Limits the powers of the crown and sets out the rights of Parliament, freedom of speech, requirement for regular elections to Parliament, and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution. |
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| The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. triangular trade. Slaves from Africa then to raw goods in new world then to goods in Europe and back to Africa for more slaves |
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| Large plots of land, where a crop is developed (sugar, tobacco, coffee, etc.) |
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| The period from approximately 1600 to 1750 in England in which there was a marked increase in the consumption and variety of 'luxury' goods and products by individuals from different economic and social backgrounds. |
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| Mercantilism is a national economic policy aimed at accumulating monetary reserves through a positive balance of trade, especially of finished goods |
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| In France under the Old Regime, a legislative assembly of the different classes of French subjects. It had a separate assembly for each of the three estates, which were called and dismissed by the king. It had no true power in its own right—unlike the English parliament |
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| a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General |
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| a device designed for carrying out executions by beheading |
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| Committee for Public Safety |
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| during the Reign of Terror; assumed its role of protecting the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion. |
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| a radical Jacobin leader, was elected to the Estates General in 1789, a French lawyer and politician |
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| a phase in the development of modern industrial economies that preceded, and created conditions for, the establishment of fully industrial societies. It was marked by the increasing involvement of agrarian families in market-oriented craft production, mainly through the putting-out system organized by merchant capitalists |
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| the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one. |
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| Enlightened absolutism, is a form of absolute monarchy where the monarchs strove to improve the lives of their subjects |
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| A leader in the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a polymath who spoke five languages and was deeply interested in science, invention, architecture, religion and philosophy and was an active member and eventual president of the American Philosophical Society |
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| 1793–94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety |
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| a French lawyer and politician, a member of the Estates-General, he advocated against the death penalty and for the abolition of slavery, while supporting equality of rights, universal suffrage and the establishment of a republic, a member of the Committee of Public Safety |
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| A body of five directors that held executive power in France following the National Convention. (November 1795 until November 1799) The second to last stage of the French Revolution. |
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| Believed that men were flawed, needed an absolute ruler. Sovereign ruler, absolutism.absolutism, people are evil and bad, and need absolute ruler.(Communism) |
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was a forerunner to modern constitutionalism
o Invest rights into rulers or parliaments to govern
o Bill of rights
people aren’t bad, but have natural rights, invest rights in the use of a parliament or kings (Democracy) |
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- Renewed the census, to maintain power
- Kept trading just within the colony (Canada) |
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| Raw goods for more people to buy, increases trade and buying |
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| Absolutist ruler of Russia, wants to be like Louis XIV |
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| Critiques inequality between men, govt. Slavery is bad |
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| writers of the enlightenment (Voltaire, etc.) |
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| secret society that is only joined by elites, people who aren’t of nobility are talking about what’s going on |
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| L’assie Faire Economics (govt. shouldn’t intervene in economics at all) |
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| Backlash of enlightenment, belief that nature and emotions were more important, write about that crap. |
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| 1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (scientific revolution). Improvements to telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism. |
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