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Christopher Columbus convinced Spain to allow him to find a route to Asia by saling west across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Afer landing in Mexico, Cortez learned of the wealthy Aztec empire. After a series of skirmishes, Cortez took over the Aztec empire.
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The Heliocentric Theory is the idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun. Copernicus was a polish astronomer.
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In the middle ages, the earth-centered view of the universe in which scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe.
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He said that people are evil and therefore need to be controlled.
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A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses.
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A company of London investors received from King James a charter to found a colony in North America.
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He said that people learn from experience and reasoning.
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Louis XIV was 23 when he started to rule. He was the son of Louis XIII.
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Peter became czar while a child; sister ruled in his place. He removed his sister from the trown and took power for himself.
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Parliament, angered by James II's actions and the possibility that his Catholic son could become king, invite James' daughter, Mary, and her husband William to overthrow the king.
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He said that center stones of government should be tolerance, reason, religious freedom, and freedom of speech.
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He believed that laws exist to preserve social order, not to avenge crimes.
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The social and political system of France was called the Old Regime. Under this system, the people fo France were divided into three large social classes, or estates.
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The gullotine is an angled blade that falls cutting off the head from the body. Most executions were made with the gullotine.
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Napoleon conquered France which is in Europe.
