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Started in northern Italy due to Italy's central location, trade routes and cultural exchange. Wealthy families like the Medicis funded the artists.
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The school started Portuguese exploration and trade. Soon Portugal had trading posts along west Africa.
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The Ottoman empire lays seige to Constantinople and takes over it and makes it the capital of their empire.
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Columbus leaves Spain to find a sea route to Asia. Instead he finds the New World.
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Divided newly discovered American lands between Spain and Portugal.
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Michelangelo sculpts David from the Bible.
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Praise of Folly makes fun of pompous priests, young lovers, and greedy merchants.
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Michelangelo paints the ceiling on a church outside the Vatican.
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Da Vinci paints one of the most famous paintings ever.
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The Native Americans and Spainish conquered the Aztecs with guns and horses. This event was a major part of the Spainish colonization of America.
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He conquers due to disease and superior weapons.
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He said the sun was the center of the solar system, not the earth. Published On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies.
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Shakespeare write a play about the assassination of Julius Caesar.
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The Renaissance ends and the Modern Era begins.
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Said mathematical laws govern planetary motion. Said orbits are elliptical.
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Supported Copernicus' ideas of heliocentric theory. Forced to recant his ideas by the church.
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Charles I had a fight with Parliament over money, Cromwell supported Parliament and gained power. He executes Charles for treason.
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Said humans are naturally evil, live in nature would be nasty, brutish and short. State must have central power to manage behaviour.
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Harvey was an English doctor. Published On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals.
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The Taj Mahal was built to honor Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan's wife.
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His rule restored the power of the monarchy in England.
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Louis XIV built this to impress foreign monarchs and to show his power. He forced all the nobles to live here so he could control them and have complete power.
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Newton published Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.
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James II was replaced by the Protestant William and Mary.
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Popular sovereignty means government power comes from the people. People have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
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Said the monarchy could not levy taxes without Parliaments consent, could not interfer with freedom of speech in Parliament or penalize citizens who petition.
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Built to create a seaport to west. Brought Russia out of the medieval ages.
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Seperation of powers into three branches. Each branch can restrain the power of the other two.
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Social contract is free individuals agree to crate government to protect their rights.
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Based upon John Locke's ideas. Argued for natural rights and listed grievances as justifications for revolution.
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Due to the Navigation acts (restricted colonial trade), new taxes without representation, and British violence in the colonies.
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Citizens gathered weapons to defend Paris against the King's Swiss mercenary army. Symbolic start of the French Revolution.
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Rolled through France in 1789, peasants afraid of nobles and vice versa.
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Declared a treasonist by the National Assembly, tried and found guilty.
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Planned to unify Europe under French domination, created an effiecent tax system, improved government efficency. created the Napoleonic code.
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Meet to contain France, balance power by equally distrubuting power among Europe, replaced European monarchs that Napoleon had dethroned, and caused new political philosophies to form. Increased nationalism, reduced French power, Britian and Prussia gained power and revolutions in Latin America.
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Escaped exile and allowed to rule for 100 more days, failed in the Battle of Waterloo, exiled again to St. Helena.
