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The Renaissance is an event that started in Italy, it was a philosophical and artistic movement
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Found a water route to Asia
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This is a period in time when European Countries started branching out and colonizing other countries
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Columbus is credited for discovering the new world of Central America
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Was a Renaissance Era artist who is most famous for painting Mona Lisa
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Martin Luther Stapled his 95 theses on the front door of a church breaking away from the church
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The Reformation was a break away from the Catholic church and started the beginning of many new branches of Christianity
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Ferdinand discovered a new passage between the Atlantic and Pacific ocean
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Conquered the Aztec Empire
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Spread Spanish Influence into South America
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Explored Canada founder of modern day Quebec
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Michelangelo was a Renaissance Era Artist who is most famously known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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John Calvin published a Theocracy would later create his own branch of Christianity called Calvinism
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Led in the increase of competition between Spain and England
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This was a movement based off of science and modern thinking
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William Shakespeare was a playwrite and and author known for writing Romeo and Juliet
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He studied Physics, and the laws of gravity and was a gifted astronomer
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The Thirty Years war was a long bloody war fought between Protestants and Catholics resulting in no clear winner
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King Charles fled to London and formed a small army
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The English people Revolted against the English Government
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King Charles was imprisoned for the actions he committed
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King Charles was sent to trial and was sentenced to death
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Hobbes was one of many Enlightenment thinkers, he wrote the Leviathan
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The English king revoked the Edict of Nantes ending the Reformation
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Explained the theory of gravity.
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The Puritan members of Parliament revolted against the English king.
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Charles I was beheaded
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Oliver Cromwell sets up England as a Dictatorship
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Locke was an enlightenment thinker that wroth Two Treatises on Government
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Cromwell dies, and England feels it is better to restore the original monarchy so Charles II becomes king
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Charles II dies and his relative James II becomes King of England
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Was a new age of thinking, and thinkers
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"Newton was said in his own lifetime to have created his own Revolution"
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Montesquieu was an enlightenment thinker who wroth the Spirit of Laws
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Rousseau was an Enlightenment thinker that wrote the Social Contract
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A rebellion against the Monarchy of France
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Was a constitution that retained the power of Monarchy
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The French king attempted to sneak out of Paris
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The French Radicals took over the country
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The Reign of Terror was a period of time when France was ruled by Radicals who executed on a seemingly normal basis if they had any slight disagreement with the government
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Voltaire was an enlightenment thinker who wrote Candide
