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History 102 Midterm Study guide
History 102 Midterm Study guide
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Undergraduate 2
03/07/2012

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Oliver Cromwell
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Lived 1599-1658.

Political leader who temporarily overthrew the Stuart monarchy.

Overthrew the royalists.

Was dug up from the grave, hung in chains and beheaded.

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The Fronde
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a civil war in france during the midst of the Franco-Spanish War which began in 1635.

divided into two campains, of the parlements and of the nobles.

 

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The Columbian Exchange
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this was a widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), comunicable disease, and ideas between the Eastern and the Western hemispheres.
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Flight to Varennes
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a significant episode in the French Revolution during which King Louis XVI of France, ahis wife Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution.
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