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World History Test 7
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10th Grade
12/17/2009

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August 4 Decrees
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Set of rules/laws that said: Nboblemen could no long collect land taxes from peasants, all citizens can hold public office, everyone in France had to pay taxes.
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August Francke
Definition
leader in education
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Bastille Day
Definition
July 14, 1789, a mob in Paris storms the Bastille
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Battle of Austerlitz
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Considered Napolean's greatest victory
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Battle of Leipzig
Definition
A.K.A. The "Battle of Nations"
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Cardinal Mazarin
Definition
French cardinal
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Cavaliers
Definition
group that supported the king during the English Civil War
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Charles I
Definition
King of England after James I
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Committee of Public Safety
Definition
responible for: police and judicial powers, institued the Reign of Terror, run primarily by one man
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Continental System
Definition
policy that forbide the importing of British goods into any European country under Frend control
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Count von Zinzendorf
Definition
established a Moravian settlement on his estate
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Deism
Definition
World view that says that God is an impersonal Being who created the world and then stepped away from it, rejects Scripture, believes that God only reveals himself in nature.
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Denis Diderot
Definition
editor of the Encyclopedia
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Empiricism
Definition
is the belief that experience is the only source of knowledge
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Enlightenment
Definition
philosophy which attempts to apply human reason to all areas of a man's life.
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George Whitefield
Definition
prolific preacher acredited with preaching around 18,000 sermons
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guillotine
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Used to execute people by chopping off heads, came to symbolize French revolution
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James Cook
Definition
explorer who explored Australia and New Zealand for Great Britain
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James II
Definition
King of England overthrown by the Glorious Revolution
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James Stuart
Definition
succeeded (was next in line) for the monarch of England after Elizabeth
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Jamestown
Definition
The first English settment in the New World
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Jean-Jacuques Rousseau
Definition
"Father of French Romanticism"
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John Locke
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a philospher of the "Age of Reason"
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John Newton
Definition
Wrote "Amazing Grace"
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Jonathan Edwards
Definition
Preacher, credited with starting the first Great Awakening with the sermon entitled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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Loius XIV
Definition
Also known as (aka) "Sun King"
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Louis XV
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said, "After me the deluge"
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Louis XVIII
Definition
king of restored Bourbon monarchy
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Marie Louise
Definition
Napoleon's second wife
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Maximilien Robespierre
Definition
established the Committee of Public Saftey
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metric system
Definition
new system of weights and measures created during the French Revolution
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Napoleon
Definition
French Emporer and General
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Philipp Spener
Definition
started the Pietist movement
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Queen Anne
Definition
Queen of England after King William III
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Robert Raikes
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started England's first Sunday school
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Robert Vacalier De LaSalle
Definition
sailed down the Mississippi for France
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Romanticism
Definition
philosophy which taiught that man is naturally good, but society is bad
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Samuel de Champlain
Definition
"Father of New France"
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Samuel Johnson
Definition
was a great liuterary figure (wrote books)
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The First Estate
Definition
was a group composed of clergy
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The Protectorate
Definition
the name of the government that Oliver Cromwell established after the Commonwealth
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The Right
Definition
a conservativbe group of France's Constituent Assembly
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Versailles
Definition
a magnificent palace built outside of Paris
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William Laud
Definition
the archbishop of Cnaterbury
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William Wiberforce
Definition
fought to abolish slavery in England
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