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| What were the early 1500s known as? |
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| The Age of the Princes, which lasted 300 years |
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| What were new monarchies? |
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| Consolidated territories that were divided culturally, linguistically, and historically |
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| How were nation-states formed? |
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| Through diplomacy, marriage, and war |
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| What were the khanates of the Mongol Empire? |
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| Disintegrated states that made up the empire |
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| What were the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire? |
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| Byzantium and Balkan Peninsula |
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| The center of Russia was where? |
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| What major city in Russia provided as a boundary and connection between eastern and western Europe? |
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| During the 1500s, the Jagiellon family joined which nation-states? |
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| Poland-Lithuania, Bohemia, and Hungary |
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| Wealth in eastern Europe was mainly found where? |
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| In Baltic Sea fishing, Russian wood, and silver mines |
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| Central Europe was dominated by the Germanic people of what? |
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| What mountain chain allowed Austria to separate from the Swiss Confederation? |
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| The central area was governed mainly by who? |
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| Church, and individual princes |
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| What were the Low Countries? |
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| Where was most of the wealth of central Europe? |
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| Iron and silver mines, wood, agriculture, military weapon exports, banking; commercial center took after Hanseatic League |
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| Western Europe consisted of what areas? |
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| Iberian Peninsula, British Isles, and French territories |
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| Which mountain chain blocked Spain from France? |
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| What strait was very important with the trade of Africa? |
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| The marriage of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle joined the crowns of which two principalities? |
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