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expanding French royal power led to a general assembly consisting of the chief lords, both lay and ecclesiastical, and the representatives of the principal privileged towns, which were like distinct lordships
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Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos
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The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in 1521, led by Hernando Cortes, was a landmark victory for the European settlers.
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the Heliocentric Theory positioned the Sun near the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets rotating around it in circular paths modified by epicycles and at uniform speeds
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The armada had a mission of both political and religious aims. King Phillip, the leader of the Roman Catholic Spain, was not able to stop a revolt in of his Protestant subjects in the Netherlands
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13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, a group of 104 English men and boys began a settlement on the banks of Virginia's James River.
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Russia was a huge landlocked country, much less developed than other countries in Europe when peter became "tsar" ruler
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is the name of the overthrow of king James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau
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The first part of his reign is marked by his attempts to reform the kingdom in accordance with the enlightment ideas
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He established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposed Ancien Régime.
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the frenhc revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and indeed all of Europe.
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A failed escape attempt by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ended up sending them both to the guillotine (killing them) during the French Revolution.
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Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and the grain supplies were now guarded by local militias due to rumors that bands of armed men were roaming the countryside.
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The English Civil War of the mid-17th Century was part of a wider series of conflicts that spanned the entire British Isles, involving Scotland and Ireland as well as England and Wales
