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Columbus sailed west from Spain wanting to sail to India but landed in America. He made his first voyage with 90 men.
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European colonists needed cheap labor so they used enslaved Africans on plantations and farms.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade was the buying, selling, and transporting of Africans for work in the Americas. When it ended in the 1600's, 9.5 million Africans had been imported to the Americas
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This win was huge for the European settlers. The Aztec empire streched acrossed the Valley of Mexico.
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He stated that the Sun was the center of the universe not the Earth like most people believed.
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The Huguenots were French Protestants influenced by John Calvin. They were opposed by the ultra-Catholics and the battle lasted for about 30 years ending in 1598
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Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, which ended the Tudor dynasty. The next line of rulers is known as The Stuarts. James I, Elizabeth's cousin, was King of Scotland who had an idea called Divine Right.
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Jamestown was the first successful English settlement in North America.
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The supporters if the king were the Cavaliers, also called Royalists. Cromwell was put in charge; he kicked his opponents out of Parliament, had Charles I executed and declared England a commonwealth.
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Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661 after the his chief minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin, died.
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The Glorious Revolution, was also called the Revolution of 1688. The Revolution permanently ended any chance of Catholicism becoming re-established in England.
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He wanted to modernize Russia.
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This was used to behead people in France until 1806. It was used because there was no pain involved.
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A period of major change in the French government and society and had a huge imapct on France and the rest of Europe.
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Over a little more than a decade, he started to control most or all of the western and central Europe.
