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Tudor Dynasty

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Tudor Dysnasty soverighn are among the most famouse figures in royal history. Henri vll succeded in ending the wars of the roses between between the houses of lancaster and york to find the tudor house. The rules were queen Elizabeth's family, during the period of conquering the new world . The dynasty went to some trouble with the protestants and Roman catholism
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Leonardo was a painter, sculptor mentorand a scientist. A true renaissaqnceman. he was intersted on how things work. Painted " Monalisa" and the Last supper among many others.
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Ben Franklin
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Founding father of the United states and noted polymath, leading author, printer, political theorist,politician, inventor ect. American Enlightenmentr figure 6th president became familiar with elictricity.
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Turkish letters
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Written by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbeq. Impressions of Sueiman of the ottoman empireor suleiman the magnificent and the efficiency of the ottaman empire. He worked for King Ferdinand.
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Baroque Vs. neoclassical Music
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Neoclassical- Beethoven , Mozart: Neoclassical style is an attemt to balance evrything without giving anything in particular emphasis more.  

 

Baroque- Johann s. Bach 

Mathematical, romantic and for the church 

 

 

 

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Popular sovereignty
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he idea that rulers drew power from their subjects, and were therefore at their subjects' mercy. This challenged the idea of divine right, or of rulers being naturally (or supernaturally) superior to the people they ruled.
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Enlightenment
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a philosophical and scientific revolution in which people were encouraged to question the most basic principles of their life. This lead to numerous social and political upheavals.
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Seven year's war
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this war merged with a larger contest for imperial supremacy, where British and French forces battled each other in Europe, India, and N. America.
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Declaration of independence
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July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress came up with the "Unanimous Declaration of the 13 United States of America". All men are equal, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Columbian exchange
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The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
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impact of columbian exchange
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Spread of Christianity affected belief systems, guns used for hunting and subdued native people, tools transformed farming, plant exchanged transformed diets, deadly diseases introduced
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Baron de Montesquieu
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Science of politics

wrote persian letters 

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Isaac Newton
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Mathematical principles of natural philosophy, English math, astronomy, mechanics, laws of universal gravitation
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Galileo Galilei
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Italy- heavens not perfect, telescope, sunspots, mountains on moon, jupiters moons, terrestrial motion, falling gravity, inertia
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Published "on the revolutions of heavenly spheres" -broke Ptolemaic theory, sun is center of the universe. Begun The scientific revolution
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Johannes Kepler
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ermany- planetary orbits elliptical, not circular
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Charles V
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Holy roman emperor, catholic
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Martin Luther
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Monk, Wittenberg, denounced Catholicism, Wrote 95 Thesis
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scientific revolution
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Reliance on observation and mathematics transformed study/natural world
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John Calvin
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French lawyer, converted, protestant, calvinism founder
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Utopia
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A book of the idea of the perfect world, created by Thomas More
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Humanism
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A Renaissance movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements.
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Secular
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Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual values
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Renaissance
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Period of European history, 1300-1600, when renewed interest in classical culture led to changes in things such as art, culture, and views of the world
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Indulgence
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A pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin
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