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He is most famous for the voyages of discovery that he organised and financed, which eventually led to the rounding of Africa and the establishment of sea routes to the Indies
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Whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.
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Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East.
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Spanish conquistador who traveled through much of the Pacific coast of America along Peru.
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Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth (
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The founder of the Mughal dynasty.
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Spanish explorer who is famous mainly for his march across Mexico and his conquering of the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
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A dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations.
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The most significant ruling dynasties of Iran. They ruled one of the greatest Persian empires.
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An imperial power in South Asia that ruled a large portion of the Indian subcontinent.
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The Protestent Reformation is where people started seeing faults in the Roman Catholic doctrine and started to break away from the Catholic Church and forming their own church groups.
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The Scientific Revolution was a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences led to a rejection of doctrines that had prevailed starting in Ancient Greece and continuing through the Middle Ages.
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Most important is his work "True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven" that argues christianity and Confucianism fit well together and are no opposites
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Invented the thermometer, perfecting the telescope and for experimenting with gravity and pendulums.
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The Tokugawa Shogunate was a feudal military dictatorship in Japan.
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A series of wars in central Europe beginning in 1618 that stemmed from conflict between Protestants and Catholics and political struggles between the Holy Roman Empire and other powers. It ended with the Peace of Westphalia.
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The last ruling dynasty of China
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The era in Western philosophy, intellectual, scientific and cultural life, centered upon the 18th century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority.
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He embarked on a journey to Western Europe before he became tzar of Russia.
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Trade between Africa, America and Europe.
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The war was now spreading to North America. British Colonists wanted to take over French land in North America. The British wanted to take over the fur trade in the French held territory.
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She's known in history as Catherine the Great -- modeled after Peter the Great -- though she eschewed the title in her lifetime.
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When the British colonies in America revolted against British rule because they were being taxed by people not even living on their land located thousands of miles away in Britain
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A military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution
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French peasants in search of arms and ammunition to defend the Revolution against Royalist counter insurgents.
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The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is the document that provided the basis of the French constitution, which states the laws of the nation.
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Culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic.
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It was a conference held in Austria to settle political and territorial questions arising from the Napoleonic Wars and to restore a balance of power in Europe.
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The emperor Napaolion was defeated