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World History
Grade 9 prep midyears
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History
9th Grade
01/16/2007

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Prince Henry
Definition
opened navel school in 15th century
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Vasco da Gama
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Portuguese Navigator, Discovered route by sailing
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Vasco de Balboa
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Spainish explorer, 1st to visit Pacific Ocean
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Bartolomeus Dias
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Founded tip of Africa, named Cape of Good Hope
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Sir Francis Drake
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sent to find outlet to NorthWest by Queen Elizabeth
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Portuese sailor, 1st to sail around the world
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Ponce de Leon
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searched for Fountain of Youth, founded Florida
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British East INdia Company
Definition
private business w/ special overnment charter
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Mercantilism
Definition
economic system, favored exports over imports
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Line of Demarcation
Definition
imaginary line dividing land between spainish and portuguese
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Joint Stock Company
Definition
individuals->part ownership-> buying stocks
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Chris Columbus
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sail to new world. believe to have reached Indies
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Americo Vespucci
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mapmaker used his name for new continent
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Reformation
Definition
religious movement -> led to pretestant churches
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Martin Luther
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leader of Protestant reformation in Germany
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Simony
Definition
buying/selling church offices
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Predestination
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god chose some to save
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Henry VII
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established (head)Anglican church of England
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Spainish Armada
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fleet to attack England ->deafeated
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Indulgeneces
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payment to church ->freed sinners
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95 Theses
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written by Martin Luther. was nailed to church door
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John Calvin
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French leader of Protestant Reformation
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Spainish Inquisition
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made to suppress heresy, persecution, terror
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Elizabeth I
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Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII
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Mary Tudor
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catholic daughter of HenryVIII, married Philup II
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Versailles
Definition
palace created by pope
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Puritans
Definition
calvinists in the new world
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Galileo
Definition
Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician, inventor. improve telescope
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Ben Franklin
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found lightning rod
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Geocentric theory
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earth center of universe
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Tycho Brahe
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opened observatory in Denmark
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Sir Isaac Newton
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born when galileo died
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William Harvey
Definition
discovewred how blood works
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