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Nicolaus Copernicus studied that the Earth revolves around the sun.
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He believed that humans were born evil and had to have strict ruling.
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- All planets revolve around the sun. 2. A radius vector joining any planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal lengths of time. 3. The squares of the sidereal periods of planets are directly proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
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Parliament became annoyed with Charles I and refused to give him money.
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John Locke was one of the influential people that helped shape America.
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He faced threats because the church didn’t want to seem wrong.
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Due to disagreements between Parliament and King Charles I.
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After losing the war to the roundheads, Charles I was executed.
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After the war England decided not to have a king. Led by Oliver Cromwell.
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The people became tired of not having a king, so Charles I's son, Charles II took over and was named the "Merry Monarch."
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Newton established that all physical objects are all affected by the same thing, gravity.
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During the 18th century, Enlightenment thinkers focused being in Paris, because there were more there.
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The Age of Reason, a time where people depended more on reasonable thinking than faith
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James Cook claimed Australia
for Great Britain in 1769 and
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King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette rule France.
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A voting meeting to decide if the 2nd estate should be taxed.
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When the Revolution was at its worse because of the multiple executions of the guillotin
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People felt that there shouldn’t be a ruler anymore.
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The people of France finally stepped up and saw what wrongs their “leader” was doing.
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In December Napoleon is crowned by Pope, though some say he crowned himself.
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Napoleon loses to H. Nelson in a navy battle.
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A man named William Wilberforce dedicated his life to abolish slavery in Britain.
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After being exiled to the island of St. Helena, Napoleon dies of a stomach ailment.
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This law was passed so that lower classes could vote
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After the Slave Trade Bill was abolished Wilberforce continued to work towards ending slavery. But when they finally abolished the Slavery Act, it only applied to kids.
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This law was passed so that children that were working in factories to have more fair conditions.
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Started when the Chinese government confronted foreign merchant ships and forced them to surrender their illegal shipments.
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After China losing the Opium War, they were forced to sign a treaty that would allow the British to openly trade with China, no matter what.
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In 1845 as leaves on potato plants suddenly turned black, curled, then rotted.
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All around Europe revolutions broke out because of the new laws made from the Congress of Vienna.
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A palace made out of glass that was made to show off inventions from around the world
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The new queen, Queen Victoria, made England a very successful country. They called her time of rule the Victorian Era
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Allowed America to openly trade with Japan.
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Sepoy rebelled against the British East India Trading Company's rule because of a rumor being spread that they sealed gunpowder cartridges with cow or pig fat.
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After the fall of the trading company the British government took control of India.
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A powerful group of samurai overthrow the Shogun to restore the Emperor to power.
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Nephew of Napoleon, Louis Napoleon, becomes president of France, but then makes himself Emperor. But follows in some of the same mistakes as Napoleon.
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European leaders met in Berlin to divide African territory. No African leaders were invited to this.
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To celebrate France’s economic success. They held a celebration, created the Eiffel Tower
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The British had discovered gold in the southern part of Africa, but there was a civilization already there, the Boers, a group of Dutch settlers, who refused to allow British into their land.
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The Archduke and his wife are assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
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British and French forces attempt to capture Constantinople so that they can have a sea route to Russia
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Armed Bolshevik factory workers, Red Guard, attacked provisional government, November of 1917
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After the sinking of the Lusitania and the intercepted Zimmerman Telegram, America decides to join the war.
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Citizens protested in streets of Petrograd, March 8, 1917. Which caused the Czar to abdicated the throne.
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After being persecuted by his subjects and other political parties Nicholas 2 steps down from the throne.
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To preserve his Communist Dream for Russia, Lenin signed a peace treaty with Germany.
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A war in Russia between Communists and those who opposed Communism.
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Nicholas II and family were being held by the Bolsheviks in a house, they were tricked into going into the basement and the Bolsheviks lined up a firing squad and killed them.
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The Armistice of the War is signed by world leaders to cease fire on battlefields.
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Sailors who were against Lenin and his plans revolted at the Kronstadt naval base.
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Germany fell behind with reparations, then French and Belgium troops invaded the Ruhr.
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During a political criseis Mussolini becomes 2 Duce
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Hitler gains the legislative power of the Reichstag and passes the Enabling Act.
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Even though the Crystal Palace was a place to show off new inventions it was burnt down.
