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As a part of their marriage, a treaty was signed between Ferdinand and Isabella stating Castile would become formally superior over Aragon. -
He resigned because he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn and believed she could produce an heir.
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She was succeeded to the throne after her half-sister's death. She was fluent in five languages and had inherited intelligence, determination, and shrewdness. Her rain is considered one of the most glorious in English history.
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Granted religious tolerance and equality to Huguenots and ended the French Wars of Religion. -
A spanish novel that was published in two parts. It was considered a founding work of Western literature. Often labelled as the fist modern novel. -
The cause for the war was that Emperor Ferdinand forced Catholicism throughout the region, which mad protestants fear losing their rights to worship.
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The Petition of Right sought for four principles, no taxation without the consent of Parliament, no imprisonment without cause, no quartering of soldiers on subjects, and no martial law in peacetime
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An English Parliament that lasted twenty years following the fiasco of the Short Parliament.
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Also known as "Louis the Great" or "The Sun King". he reigned 72 years and 110 days, the longest of any sovereign.
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The Peace of Westphalia formally ended the Thirty Years' War. -
Also known as "The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil" is a book written about the relationship of society and rulers.
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King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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Peter the Great westernized Russia from 1696 to 1725.
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The sequence of events that led to the deposition of James ll and Vll -
The English Bill of Rights is a bill that firmly established the principles of frequent parliaments, free elections, and freedom of speech. -
A political philosophy states that we can use the idea of a state of nature to justify a proper government. -
A novel about a man cast away on an island in the Caribbean for 26 years. -
He has been put in charge only of music for festival services at St. Pauls's church thanks to his petition.
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Also known as "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" is about the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver as he ventures to unchartered regions of the world where he finds new civilizations and encounters "fantastical beings." -
Fredrick was known to be a lavish patron of the arts and he enriched Prussia's physical infrastructure greatly.
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The Spirit of Laws is a study of the three types of government, republic, monarchy, and despotism
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A twenty-eight volume refrence book .
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A war fought between France and Great Britian that began as a dispute over North American land claims.
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A gentile man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds"
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He was the first fully British monarch of the Hanoverian kings Ruling Britain was his priority and he never visited his family in Hanover.
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Social Contract is a theory that people live together in society in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior. -
She established educational reform, championing the arts, and extending Russia's borers.
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A co-regent of Austria with his mother Maria Theresa and sole ruler.
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A British Riot that lead to nine British soldiers shot, and many more being harrassed by a group of 400 people that threw things at them. -
An American political and mercantile protest. -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
First major military campaign during the Revolutionary War.
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The Wealth of Nations was a book about our individual need to fulfill self-interest results in societal benefit -
Occured at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. The Continental Congress Signed it. -
The battle that won America's Independence -
The Treaty of Paris ended the War of the American Revolt.
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The world's longest surviving written charter of government.
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The decleration sets out the "natural and inalienable" rights, aka freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression. -
The Storming was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's abuse of power.
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The members of the French Third Estate took the Jeu De Paume Oath in the tennis court which had been built for the Palace of Versailles.
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This march was prompted by the high price of bread, food scarcity, and by rumors that the Tricolor of the revolution had been trampled on an derided by the royalist troops.
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Written on 9/14/1791 by a French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
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a book with strictures on Political and Moral subjects considered one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. -
A constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution. -
During the radical phase of the French Revolution, France was made a republic abolishing the monarchy and executing the king.
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A committee of the National Convention that fomred the provisional government. -
A period of the French Revolution when a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervor.
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A governing five-member committee in the French first republic. -
an architect of France's recovery following the Revolution before setting out to conquer Europe. -
A battle that occurred near the town of Austerlitz, Nearly 158,000 troops were involved and about 24,000 were killed or injured -
A war between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies. -
War fought from 10/16 to 10/19 at Leipzig, Saxony.
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He was exiled after his disastrous campaign in Russia ended in defeat. -
A series of international dipolmatic meetings to discuss and agree with a new layout of the European political and constitutional order.
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Napoleon was exiled to St.Helena after he was defeated by the British at the Battle of Waterloo.