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world history ch. 13-16
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04/02/2010

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Age of Exploration
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when the nations of Europe began to explore distant lands across uncharted seas
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Spanish Inquisition
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attempt to root up and destroy all heretics in Spain
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Estates - General
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the French version of Parliament
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War of the Roses
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House of Lancaster vs. House of York; ended in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field; York won
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Hundred Year's War
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1337-1453; England vs. France; France won
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constitution
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written plan of government
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Magna Carta
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1215; established many freedoms and rights; king was not above the law
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Domesday Book
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1086 census record for tax purposes
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Celts
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among the earliest known inhabitants of the British Isles
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Jutes, Angles, Saxons
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Germanic tribes that invaded Britain in the 5th century
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Danes
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mid 800's group of vikings that invaded England
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Joan of Arc
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peasant girl who helped the French win many battles during the 100 year's war
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Visigoths
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a Germanic tribe
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Moors
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Muslims from North Africa who invaded Spain in 711
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Ferdinand and Isabella
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sponsored Columbus's voyage
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Christopher Columbus
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discovered the New World
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Beowulf
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greatest Saxon poem about the war-like, barbaric members of the Anglo Saxons
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Leif Erickson
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viking who landed in the New World in 1000 AD
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Arch Bishop of Cantenbury
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most influential church office in England
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Norman Conquest
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another name for the Battle of Hastings
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William Tyndale
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produced the first printed English translation of the NT from the original Greek
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Martin Luther
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started the Protestant Reformation; wrote the 95 Theses
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John Calvin
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French protestant who practiced reformation in Switzerland
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95 Theses
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list of complaints about the Catholic church written by Martin Luther
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Protestant Reformation
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protest against the Catholic church; attempted reformation of the Catholic church
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Diet of Worms
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assembly of high officials who met to hear Luther's defense
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Edict of Worms
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declared Luther a heretic and an outlaw
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Edict of Worms
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declared Luther a heretic and an outlaw
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popular education
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the education of all people rather than just a privileged few
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Lutherans
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followers of Martin Luther
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Calvinists
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followers of John Calvin
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October 31, 1517
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date Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenberg
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Anglican Church
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the Church of England
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Invincible Armada
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the huge Spanish naval fleet sent to conquer England in 1588; defeated by the English navy and the weather
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Edict of January
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decreed that Huguenots could worship in public if they met outside the town limits and if they admitted royal officials to inspect their services
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St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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the most infamous episode of French religion wars; in 1572 as many as 100,000 Huguenots were killed by Catholic forces during a 3 day period
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Edict of Nantes
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stipulated that Huguenots could live in any towns or districts of France they chose, but could practice their faith only in designated towns
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30 Year's War
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1618-1648; civil war in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire over religious and political issues
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Peace of Westphalia
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treaty that ended the 30 Year's War in 1648
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Huguenots
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French Calvinist Protestants
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Peasant's Revolt
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revolt of German peasants vs. their feudal lords; resulted in even fewer freedoms
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Counter Reformation
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Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation
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Inquisition
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torture and terror to obtain confessions of heresy from Protestant victims in Spain and Italy
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English Reformation
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severing of England from the religious empire of Rome; established Protestantism in England
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Act of Supremacy
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recognized Henry VIII(8) as supreme head of the English church
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Elizabethan Settlement
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series of laws which officially established many Protestant doctrines and practices; laid the foundation for the Anglican Church
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Henry VIII(8)
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king who broke away from the Roman Catholic church
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Lady Jane Grey
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granddaughter of Henry VIII(8); successor to the throne but had to surrender it to Mary; later found guilty of treason and beheaded
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Mary Tudor
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1st daughter and successor of Henry VIII(8); called "Bloody Mary" because she forced people to change their religion back to Romanism by means of torture
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Elizabeth I
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Queen Mary's successor; Protestant who won aclaim of her country and earned the nickname "Good Queen Bess"
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Puritans
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wanted to purify the church of England
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Separatists
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wanted to be separate from the official church
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William Shakespeare
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perhaps the greatest writer of all time
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George Frederick Handel
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best know for his oratorios including the Messiah
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Isaac Watts
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Father of the English hymn
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Mozart
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child prodigy who composed 600+ works
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Beethoven
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deaf composer who wrote orchestral symphonies
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Han Holbein the Younger
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one of the greatest portrait painters of all time
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Rembrandt
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one of the greatest painters of all time
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Nicolaus Copurnicus
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created the heliocentric theory
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Johannes Kepler
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discovered the 3 laws of planetary motion
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Galileo Galilei
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built a telescope; discovered the law of uniform acceleration and the laws of a pendulum
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Isaac Newton
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Father of Modern Science; discovered the laws of gravity and motion
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Edmund Halley
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correctly predicted a comet that was named after him
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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one of the greatest composers
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Heliocentric
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planets revolve around the sun; sun centered
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Geocentric
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earth is center
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Universal law of gravitation
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every particle of matter attracts ever other particle of matter
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Laws of Motion
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dealt with concepts of inertia, acceleration, action and reaction, and momentum
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Royal Society
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first permanent scientific society of the Modern Age
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classic
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a work of superior excellence that has stood the test of time
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