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The reign of Ivan the Great begins
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Rurik monarch who united Russia after the expulsion of the Mongol's
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Era of great cultural achievement for Spain; included the works of Cervantes and El Greco
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Henry Vlll begins to reign.
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Tudor monarch who established the Church of England as a means of obtaining a divorce from Catherine of Aragon
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Ivan the Terrible's reign began
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murderous Rurik czar who ruled using terror and intimidation
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Philip ll's reign begins
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Hapsburg monarch whose main goal was to promote Catholicism throughout his kingdom; built a combination monastery/palace called El Escorial
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Elizabeth 1 begins her reign.
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Tudor monarch who found a way to create a compromise between Catholics and Protestants in the Church
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Dutch eventually gained their independence after rebelling against Philip’s attempts to force them to be Catholic
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Spanish navy defeated by English; signified the decline of Spanish hegemony
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Era of famine and political unrest which occurred between the death of Ivan the Terrible and the establishment of the Romanov dynasty
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The reign of James l begins
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Stuart monarch who argued with Parliament about combining England and Scotland
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The reign of Charles 1 begins
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Stuart monarch who was supported by the Cavaliers in the English Civil War, and was executed in 1649
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Cavaliers (Royalists) fought with Roundheads (Puritans in Parliament); Roundheads won and established a
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Louis's reign begins.
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Bourbon monarch who was the quintessential absolute monarch; famous for calling himself ‘the Sun King’
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time period during which England was ruled as a Puritan theocracy by Oliver Cromwell
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French revolt which occurred when Louis XIV’s regent tried to tax the nobles
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The reign of Charles ll begins.
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Stuart monarch associated with the Restoration
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Former hunting lodge outside Paris which Louis XIV had turned into an opulent Baroque palace which he used to limit the power of the nobles
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English legislation that Charles II agreed to which excluded Catholics from public office
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Examples include the Nine Years’ War, the War of Devolution, and the War of Spanish Succession; all were fought in an attempt to gain territory for France (and none were very successful)
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Peter the Great begins his reign.
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Romanov czar who attempted to westernize Russia and who fought with Sweden and the Ottoman Empire to gain ports
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The reign of James ll begins.
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openly Catholic Stuart monarch who abdicated in 1688 when his son-in-law and daughter came to overthrow him
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bloodless overthrow of James II in England by William III of Orange and Mary
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document signed by William and Mary which asserted Parliament’s power of the purse and stipulated that monarchs could not keep a standing army without Parliament’s consent
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Peter the Great’s war which was waged against Sweden in an attempt to gain ports along the Baltic Sea
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Western-style city built by Peter the Great on a site that he had captured from Sweden; featured Peterhof, a Baroque palace
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Frederick the Great begins reigning.
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Hohenzollern monarch whose militaristic rule of Prussia helped to expand its territory
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Began when Frederick the Great seized an Austrian province upon the beginning of the reign of Maria Theresa
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Began when Frederick the Great invaded Saxony; resulted in a huge colonial empire for England and a Prussian/Russian alliance
