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Ferdinand and Isabella unified Spain after their marriage in 1469. This unification was the union of Aragon and Castile, or eastern and western Spain. -
King Henry VIII is most well known for his many wives.
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Elizabeth I is known for the exploration of the New World.
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This edict granted Protestant rights in a Catholic nation. -
Don Quixote is considered to be the first modern novel. -
This war was basically a battle between protestants and Catholics under Emperor Ferdinand II in the Holy Roman Empire.
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This petition was a English constitutional document that set out specific individual protections.
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He guided his country through the religious unrest between the Anglicans, Catholics, and dissenters.
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Louis is often the icon of an absolute monarch and a strong centralized state.
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This parliament was summoned by King Charles I and it was named this to be distinguished from the Short Parliament. It gradually removed more and more power from the King.
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This document ended the Thirty Years War and started an anti-Hapsburg revolt.
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Thomas Hobbes wrote this book in response to the political turmoil during the English Civil Wars.
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Peter the Great is best known for supporting and putting forth western policies in a radical manner.
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England was invaded by a foreign army and king Charles II fled.
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Much content from the English Bill of Rights is in the First Amendment. -
John Locke published this document and it was a major statement of the political philosophy that he held.
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About this time, Sebastian Bach, a classical music composer, was a musician in the court of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar.
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Robinson Crusoe is a story about a young Englishman who sails on a dangerous sea voyage. -
Jonathan Swift makes a volume with satire about human nature and travelers' tales.
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Frederick II reformed the judicial system.
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The Spirit of Laws was a treatise on political theory. -
This encyclopedia is a 28 volume reference book.
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This war was a global conflict that involved most of the European powers and was mostly fought in Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region.
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Voltaire published this book is retaliation to a German proponent of Optimism.
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King George was king when America started revolting.
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This document constructs a society in which individual wills are combined into a general will. -
Catherine was famous for many things including educational reform.
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He sought to introduce administrative, economic, and legal reforms.
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British troops killed five of a crowd of about 300 hundred for verbally harassing them. -
An American protest where they dumped chests of tea into the Boston harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of four laws to punish the American colonies for the Boston Tea Party. -
This was the first battle of the American Revolution. -
The Wealth of Nations was a foundational treatise in economic thought.
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The Declaration of Independence was a document that Kotik calls the greatest breakup letter in history. The American Colonies declared independence from Britain. -
British general Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army to George Washington. -
This treaty ended the American Revolution.
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The US Constitution is a document that forms the foundation for the American government.
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This oath was taken by the French Third Estate in a tennis court that was supposed to be for the Versailles palace. The oath was that they would never disband until a written French constitution was established.
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The Storming of the Bastille was when revolutionary individuals took control of the medieval armoury.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man basically said that no authority cannot have power that does not come directly from the people. -
This was an influential early event of the French Revolution. Women marched onto the royal palace at Versailles.
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This declaration was a recognition of the problem of gender inequality. -
Mary Wollstonecraft published this to argue that the education system seem to deliberately train women to be incapable.
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This phase of the French Revolution is named for how many atrocities took place.
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This convention was an assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for the rest of the time.
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This committee formed the provisional government and war cabinet during the Reign of Terror. -
This period in the French Revolution is known for its massacres and executions.
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A governing five member committee in the French First Republic. -
Napoleon is best known for his incredible military genius.
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This battle took place between the British and the combined French and Spanish during the War of the Third Coalition. -
The Battle of Austerlitz was one of Napoleons greatest victories and the first engagement of the War of the Third Coalition. -
Tsar Alexander I decisively defeated Napoleon Bonaparte in this battle. -
Napoleon was exiled to an island just off the coast of Italy.
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This congress reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars.
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St. Helena was supposed the be a place where Napoleon could not escape.
