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Was a conference of ambassadors.Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain, the four powers that were chiefly instrumental in the overthrow of Napoleon.
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Was a period of technological improvement and increased crop productivity. Agricultural output grew faster than the population
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Jenner took fluid from a cowpox blister and scratched it into the skin of James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy. A single blister rose up on the spot, but James soon recovered. On July 1, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with smallpox matter, and no disease developed.
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was the first great feminist treatise.Sought “to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body.
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Been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion.succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony.
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French citizens razed and redesigned their country’s political.was influenced by Enlightenment ideals.
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referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations.offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth.
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The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods.Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex.
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Ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Threatening the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Austrian Empire, was the primary motive behind this first partition.
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a French military leader and emperor.Born on the island of Corsica.
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was a political upheaval.Also known as the U.S war of independence.
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Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community.Determine whether there can be a legitimate political authority.
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Consisted of 2 struggles.Britain won.
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The reversal of longstanding alliances in Europe.Austria went from an ally of Britain to an ally of France. Prussia became an ally of Britain.
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The Rococo style of art was more of a classic style of art.Baroque dissolved to Rococo
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involved most of the powers of Europe. austria vs prussia
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Became the Russian empress.Under her reign, Russia expanded its territories.
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her rule in 1740.She was the only woman ruler in the 650 history of the Habsburg dynasty.
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Also know as Fredrick the Great.Was prussias king.
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first world war of modern times.conflict that arose out of the disputed succession to the throne of spain.
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that was a cause of the industrial revolution in England.wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers, then benefited from economies
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Born in Moscow, Russia on June 9, 1672.Peter the Great was a Russian czar in the late 17th century.
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The First Treatise is a criticism of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha, which argues in support of the divine right of kings. The Second Treatise is about rights of the people and how they live.
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overthrow of King James II of England.Also called bloodless revolution
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often referred to as simply the Principia.The famous book of mathematical Principles of natural Philosophy marked the epoch of a great revolution in physics.
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The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was preceded by a series of repressive measures against Protestants and the Reformed Church. King Louis XIV did this.
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Also known as the age of reason.The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions.
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Any law that made a person’s eligibility for public office depend upon his profession of the established religion.Test act, in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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Charles II, the exiled king of England, lands at Dover, England, to assume the throne and end 11 years of military rule.General George Monck met with Charles and arranged to restore him.
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The leviathan is a book written by Thomas Hobbes.This book is about believing in equal justice including the equal imposition of taxes.
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It stipulated that goods could be imported into territories of the English Commonwealth only by English ships.This was intended to cripple the freight trade.
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The golden age happened in the 17th century. Trade, science, military, and art were among the most acclaimed in the world.
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The war or series of connected wars began in 1618.The Westphalia area of north-western Germany gave its name to the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War.
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Charles I and Parliament over an Irish insurrection.The English Civil Wars (1642-1651)
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known as the Sun King.Lasted for 72 years, longer than that of any other known European sovereign.
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Galileo was kept under house arrest until his death in 1642.Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism
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European culture generated a new artisitic style, known as
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dominated the major European trading nations during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries."mercantile system" was based on the premise that national wealth and power.
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there was a marked increase in the consumption.Things were cheaper.
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Suleiman failed to capture Vienna.Another battle of Vienna in 1683, European powers began to push the Ottomans out of southeastern Europe.
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Killed millions of people.Spread by rodents.
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a period of European economic expansion. Began in the late Middle Ages
