a religious movement that was started to make changes to the Catholic Church
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reformation - main reasons for leaving the Catholic Church
church became too rich & power, kings competed for power with the Pope, ideas from the renaissance, bible was in latin only, kings & merchants didn’t like paying taxes to Pope, sold indulgences, and corrupt & immoral presists & pope
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invented printing press
Johann Gutenberg
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European exploration & Expansion - original goal
find a sea route to Asia
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3 G’S
god, gold, & glory
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John cabot
1st England explorer to land in NA
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sir Francis drake
explored w coast of americas
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Henry Hudson
mapped out NY & Canada & established dutch claims to America
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Jacques Cartier
claimed Canada for France
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conquered Aztecs
hernando cortez
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conquered incas
Fransisco Pizarro
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isolationism
national policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries
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absolute monarch
a form of government in which there is a monarch who enjoys a total political control w/o laws that limit it
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divine right
the right of a sovereign to rule as set forth by the theory of government that holds that a monarch receives the right to rule directly from God & not from the people
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Ivan the terrible
russia
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Louis ixv
france
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Charles i
England, scotland, ireland
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how did Louis xiv show his power
excluded nobles from his royal council, lived an expensive lifestyle, went to war w Spain & England, raised taxes, and built expensive palace
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how did Ivan the terrible show his power
reduced the nobles power, created a secret police force, ruled w/o limits, killed many, and became paranoid
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parliament
a group of individuals ( all land owning nobles) who the king of England is traditionally asking advice for laws, taxes, etc.
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petition of right
a major constitutional document that states no taxes may be levied w/o consent of Parliament, can’t imprison ppl w/o reason, can’t have soliders in ppls homes, & can’t impose martial law in peacetime. (docfument was made b/c of Charles heavy belief in “divine right.”
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issues behind the English civil wars
King Charles VS parliament // issues were money and religion
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