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AP Euro Test
Important people
27
History
10th Grade
05/01/2011

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Medici
Definition
• Medici family dominated Florences’ economy, politics, and art.
• earned wealth as bankers
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More
Definition
• humanist scholar
• lord chanceller under Henry VIII
• wrote Utopia
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Gutenberg
Definition
Printing Press
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Charles VII (1422-1462)
Definition
• France
• Ended 100 year war by expelling the English from France
• strengthened economy through taxes
• created first permanent royal army
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Louis XI (1461- 1483)
Definition
• France
• enlarged army
• encourage economic growth through new industries
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Francis I (1515-1547)
Definition
• France
• first to be called “Your Majesty”
• Concordat of Bologna- allowed kings to nominate bishops, abbots and other high officials
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Henry VII (1485-1509)
Definition
• England
• created the star court
• extend royal authority
• encouraged industries
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Henry VIII (1509-1547)
Definition
• England
• supreme head of the church of England
• dissolved monasteries
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Ferdinand and Isabella
Definition
• England
• reduced number of nobles and royal council
• Reconquista by conquering Granada
• Christian state
• expelled jews
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Luther
Definition
• Lutheranism
• 95 thesis
• hated indulgences
-German Peasant War
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Calvin
Definition
-God is Perfect
-"elect"
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Henri VII (1509-1547)
Definition
-detested luther
- wife wouldnt give him a boy
-wanted divorce but couldnt get it cause pope refused
-Act of Supremacy, 1544
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Elizabeth I
Definition
-religious problems
-protestant gained strength
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Columbus
Definition
-New World
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James I (1603-1625)
Definition
-Royal Authority came from God
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Charles I (1625-1649)
Definition
-divine right of king
-similar to father
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Charles II (1660-1685)
Definition
-restored the monarch, the church of England, and Parliament
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Hobbes
Definition
-Humans are naturally self centered and prone to violence
-All humans have a desire for power
-needs goverment
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Locke
Definition
-Human are shaped how they are raised
-natural rights: Life, Liberty, Property
-limited goverment
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Cardinal Richieleu
Definition
-Henry VI died leaving his young son to rule.
-Richieleu ruled
-weaken nobility
-replaced nobles with intendants
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Term
louis xiv
Definition
-powerful monarch
-did not share power
-Versaille Palace
-colbert: financial advisor
-ended edict of nantes
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Charles VI
Definition
-did not have a male heir
-Pragmatic Sanction: His daughter would inherit all the land
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Fredrick Williams
Definition
- The Great Elector
-loyality of Junkers
- forging the hohenzollern territories into a strong power
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Peter the Great
Definition
-modernized Russia
-improved agriculture, army, trade....more
- Defeated Sweden in 30 year war
- Built St. Petersburg
-control Boyars
-exploited serfs
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Term
Copernicus
Definition
-astronomers
-earth revolved around the sun
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Kepler
Definition
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Galileo Galiei (1564-1642)
Definition
-motion and inertia
-first person to use a telescope for astronomical obserevations.
- The earth is a planet circling the sun
-Pope Urban VII accused him of lying and put him on trial.
- He was forced to say that all his discoveries where false
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