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Isabella I unified Spain through her marriage to Ferdinand II of Aragon.
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He was the Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria.
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A master of Spanish painting, who had an individual and dramatic style.
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Henry chose to abdicate after the British government, public, and the Church of England condemned his decision to marry the American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson.
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Member of the Hapsburg dynasty and served as the king of the Spaniards and they prospered under him
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Elizabeth I was the queen of England form November 17th, 1558 until she died.
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The revolt of the Netherlands against the Spanish also called the eighty years war -
This battle was a naval engagement when a fleet of the Holy League, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire.
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Targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots
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Spanish Armada was damaged by English guns and Spanish ship was captured by Sir Francis Drake
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Henry IV became heir to the French throne through his marriage to Margaret of Valois.
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This granted a large measure of religious liberty to his Protestant subjects, the Huguenots.
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King James was a strong advocate of royal absolutism during his reign.
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Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
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Conflict fought within the Holy Roman Empire and considered to be one of the deadliest wars
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Three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which people were defenestration.
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Charles inherited an empire that stretched from Germany to the Americas.
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The right was sent to to complain about a series of breaches made by the law and was compelled to agree to it through a series of blackmail -
The palace of the royals that was built to remind the country of their strength and power -
Followed the disastrous short parliament and was a meeting of English Congress -
A series of wars between Parliamentarians and Royalists.
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Louis XIV succeeded his father, Louis XIII, as king at the age of five. He ruled for 72 years.
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Collective name for the two treaties signed that recognized full territorial sovereignty of the states of the empire -
Charles I was executed by beheading outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall
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Book publishes about the problems with social and economical order -
Congress tried to promote independence by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign goods
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He was the king of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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He had previously ruled jointly with his brother, but after his brothers death he was named the official czar on his own -
Huguenots fled the country in the 17th century, creating Huguenot settlements all over Europe, in the United States and Africa.
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This revolution involved the overthrow of the Catholic king James II.
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The bill outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy.
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This was a major statement of the political philosophy from John Locke.
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This was a military campaign aimed at capturing the military fortress of Azov and the attack was led by Peter the Great
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The first member of the house of bourbon to rule Spain and started the Bourbon dynasty
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The Hohenzollerns gained de jure sovereignty over Brandenburg when the empire dissolved in 1806, and Brandenburg was formally merged into Prussia.
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Triggered by the death of a childless monarch in Spain and described as the first world war of modern times
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Commissioned by Peter the Great to stand as the new capital of Russia -
German composer and musician of the baroque
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Recognized Queen Anne as the legitimate sovereign of England and ended French claims to the throne -
The first edition of the book lead many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.
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British statesmen and a whig politician that is known for writing stories -
He wrote this book “to vex the world”, not entertain it.
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Frederick II led his nation through multiple wars with Austria and its allies He has daring military tactics that expanded Prussia lands.
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She was the only woman ruler in the 650 history of the Habsburg dynasty.
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Group of related wars that took place after the death of Emperor Charles VI
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A book with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible.
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The Spirit of Law is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law. -
It was the first encyclopedia to include contributions from many named contributors.
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Considered to be the first global conflict in world history caused from countries trying to reclaim land from each other
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Story that talks about the arrogance of nobility and Christian regimes
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King George had a victory in the Seven Years' War and led England's successful resistance to Revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
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The last reigning Empress Regnant of Russia, she was the longest ruling female in the country.
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Joseph was the eldest son of Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I and thus the first ruler in the Austrian dominions.
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The agreement deprived Poland of more than half it's people and took one third of the land -
9 British soldiers killed 3 people in a crowd who were verbally abusing them.
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American protest that involved dumping tea into the ocean.
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The punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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The first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to consider its reaction to the British government's restraints on trade and representative government after the Boston Tea Party
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this battle was on of the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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This was one of the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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The book is an Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. -
This marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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The Articles were signed by Congress and sent to the individual states for ratification. -
The Battle of Yorktown was the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation's independence
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Ended the French and Indian war and settled peace between France and Britain -
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The Constitution became the official framework after all the states accepted it
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Act of defiance by the working class and representatives of the people -
Event where the revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the armory -
A period of panic and riot by peasants and others from rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” to overthrow the Third Estate.
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A human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
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Event that helped start French Revolution
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The new government still had a monarchy but relied on voting to elect leaders
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This was written by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the rights of women.
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One of the earliest works of women's philosophy and helped set the standard
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A statement of 5 sentences issued at the Pilnitz castle.
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The monarchy was abolished and the republic was established wars continued throughout Europe
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Formed to make and form a new constitution for the country after the revolt -
Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death.
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This was created during one of the crises of the Revolution, when France was beset by foreign and civil war.
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Period of the French Revolution where the people took drastic and violent measures to get rid of the control
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Marie-Antoinette was guillotined after the Revolutionary Tribunal found her guilty of crimes against the state.
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A group of five men who held the executive power in France according to the constitution of the year III (1795) of the French Revolution.
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Napoleon is able to claim this position after winning an important military battle
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The wars were a series of battle between France and the European states -
After quickly rising through the ranks the young man crowned himself emperor -
A naval engagement between the British Royal navy and combined fleets of French and Spanish navies.
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This battle was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars
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The invasion of Russia was began by Napoleon and also called the Russian Campaign
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This was a decisive defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland.
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This was an international diplomatic conference to reconstitute the European political order after the downfall of the French Emperor.
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He abdicates the throne and as part of a condition of a treaty leaves the country
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The Concert of Europe was the vague consensus among the European monarchies favoring preservation of the territorial and political status quo
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Napoleon returns from his exile and is greeted back into the city with open arms -
During his time in exile he raised an army and spent his time of the coast of Africa -
The Social Contract is that government attains its right to exist and to govern by “the consent of the governed. -
The Habsburg lands were divided among his three sons when Ferdinand II died.
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The constitution was signed by congress members, the first and largest signature was that of the president of the Congress, John Hancock.
