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King Ferdinand and Isabella united Spain when they married and helped forge the modern world. -
Henry VIII ruled over England for 36 years and brought England into the Protestant Reformation.
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Elizabeth I reign over England for 45 years and restored Protestantism and defeated the Spanish Armada.
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The Edict of Nantes was one of the first decrees of religious tolerance and gave anyone religious rights and freedoms.
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Don Quixote was published by Miguel de Cervantes' and is considered one of the greatest novels of all time. -
The Thirty Years War changed the map of Europe and the ended with the Treaty of Westphalia.
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The Petition of Right was a paper sent by the English Parliament to King Charles I to complain about the laws. -
The Long Parliament met after the short parliament and helped the king out and the country.
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Louis XIV reigned over France and brought financial reorganisation and worked to boost trade.
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The Peace of Westphalia marked the end of the Thirty Year's War and created the framework for international relations. -
Leviathan was published by Thomas Hobbes and helped shape Western political thinking. -
Charles II reign over England, Scotland, and Ireland and was known as the Merry Monarch because of the liveliness of his court.
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Peter the Great ruled over Russian and founded St. Petersburg and created the Russian Navy.
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The Glorious Revolution was a bunch of events that happened during the exile of King James II.
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The English Bill of Rights was an act of the English Parliament and established free elections and freedom of speech within Parliament. -
The Two Treatises of Government was published by John Locke and proposed the government emerge to protect their natural rights. -
Bach career high included him creating thousands of pieces of music and becoming famous.
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Robinson Crusoe was written by Daniel Defoe and is about a man who is planning to buy slaves when his shipwrecks on an island. -
The Gulliver's Travels was published by Jonathan Swift and is an adventure story about him going on many voyages and discovering islands. -
Frederick II ruled over Prussia and lead them through many wars and transformed the kingdom into a modern state.
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It was published by Baron de Montesquieu and is about three different types of governments. -
Candid was published by Voltaire and is an adventure story, a picaresque, and a satire. -
The Encyclopedia was published by André le Breton and translated by Denis Diderot. -
The Seven Years' War was the first global war fought in Europe, India, America, and at sea.
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King George III ruled over England and led them to victory in the Seven Years' War and lost America in the American Revolution.
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The Social Contract was published by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and was a theory that people are free when they are governed by their own laws. -
Catherine the Great ruled over Russia for 34 years and westernized Russia.
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Joseph II reigned over Austria and ended serfdom and established religious equality before the law.
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The Boston Massacre was when British sentries shot a crowd of civilians while guarding the Boston Customs House. -
The Boston Tea Party was a protest where they dump tea into the harbor because they were mad at the British for imposing "taxation without representation." -
The Intolerable acts were acts that His Majesty put on the colonists to reassert his authority.
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It was a battle that kicked off the American Revolutionary War and was fought in two different towns. -
It was published by Adam Smith and is about the rational self-interest and competition that can lead to economic prosperity. -
The Declaration of Independence was the official document that made the United States a new country. -
The battle was a three-week siege where the British troops surrendered to the Continental Army.
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The Battle of Yorktown is where Washington defeated Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed and ended the American Revolution and recognized the United States as an independent nation -
The U.S. Constitution was ratified and made the colonies states. -
The Tennis Court Oath was an oath taken by men of the National Assembly never to stop meeting until a constitution had been established. -
The Storming out of the Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution and attacked an iconic public building. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was a document that expressed Universal human rights. -
The Women's March on Versailles besieged the palace and was a violent confrontation. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman is based of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and is dedicated to Marie Antoinette. -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published by Mary Wollstonecraft and it argues that women should have equal rights and should have an education. -
The Radical Phase is where most of the horrible things to place int the revolution and was ruled by the Committee for Public Safety.
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The National Convention was formed and was the first French assembly elected by male suffrage. -
The Committee of Public Safety's intent was to protect enemies of the revolution and watch over everything that is happening in the executive government. -
The Reign of Terror is a time of public executions and mass killings of thousands of people.
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The Five Man Directory was a committee the governed France after the National Convention. -
Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself emperor at Notre Dame in Paris and would be the Holy Roman Emperor. -
The Battle was one of the most famous naval battles in British history and was a British victory over the French and Spanish fleets. -
It is a battle that marked the first fight of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon's most significant victories. -
It was a battle that lasted three days and was a victory for the allied forces over Napoleon.
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The Congress of Vienna helped bring Europe back together after Napoleon.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to Elba and abdicated the throne after the Treaty of Fontainebleau was signed. -
Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to St. Helena after he was at the Battle of Waterloo.