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What were the two major reasons that Napoleon’s Grand Empire collapsed?
- Weak economy
- Drain of Napoleans many wars
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Who defeated Napoleon in his final battle?
- Duke of Wellington
- Prussian army
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Which of France’s estates was NOT exempt from the taille?
3rd Estate
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Under the Constitution of 1791, the ______ would make the laws?
New Legislative assembly
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Who seized political power from Legislative Assembly?
Paris Commune
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Who was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety.
Robes Piere
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What were the most important codes established by Napoleon?
- Napoleonic codes
- 1804
- Napoleon did away with the Consulate and crowned himself Emperor in an extravagant coronation ceremony.
- Cut down womens rights
- Males got ruling power
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The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at....
- Battle of Waterloo
- June 18, 1815
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What was the name for the journey of slaves from Africa to America?
- The Middle Passage
- Part of the Trianngular Trade route, journey From africa (with slaves) to the Caribbeans.
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What was the first Protestant faith?
Lutheranism
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Who went to the grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia?
Christopher Columbus
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Why were arrange marriage important during the Renaissance period?
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Who wrote On The Fabric of the Human Body?
Andres Versialles
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Names of Homer’s epic poems
Illiad and the Odyssey
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Who were the Aryans?
Indo Europoan Nomads
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What religion became the dominant religion on the Southeast Asia mainland from 1500’s to 1800’s.
Buddhism
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What did the first Han emperor discarded?
Harsh Rules an Taxes
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What happen at Thermopylae?
9,000 greek soilders held off 150,000 persians
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How did Confucian view Dao?
They had compassion and empathy for each other
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When were the terra cotta warriors found?
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Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
Founder of buddhism
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Qin Shihuangdi unified the Chinese world in part by
- Creating a Money system
- Building roads
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Who is considered the greatest historian of the ancient world?
Thucydides
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What is the importance of the Phoenician alphabet?
Created the English alphabet
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What is Hammurabi remembered for?
- Creating codes of laws
- An eye for an eye
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Describe the Silk Road
- Tradig route from rome to china
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When did the history of Egypt begin?
When Menes, united lower egypt with upper egypt.
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Inquisition
Forcing of a group of people to other religions.
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What was one of the technological advances of the Han dynasty?
Math and Science
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What did Calvin and Luther disagree on?
Predestination
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What are the “ten lost tribes’?
Scattered Isrealie Tribes
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Who was called the father of modern rationalism?
Rene Descartes
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Describe Issac Newton universal law of gravitation
- What goes up must come down
- Pull at the center of the earth pulling us down.
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Describe John Lock’s theory
- Tabula Rasa
- All people are born witha blank slate, learn through experiences
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Who stated that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe?
Nicholaus Popurcus
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What are the reasons that led to the fall of Tenochtitlan?
- Dona marina (malinche) helped cortes translate
- Their leader, Montezuma was murdured
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What was the Aztec capital called?
Tenochititlan
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What country was the first country to grant diplomatic recognition the United States?
France 1442
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Who was the best known ofall Christian humanists?
Isrames
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Amerigo Vespucci
- Explorer
- America was named after him
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Vasco de Gama
- Explorer from spain
- Went to Carribean and Florida
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Sugarcane Plantations
- Began in the CarribeansSlaves worked them, first Indians then Africans
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Middle Passage
Journey from Africa to the Americas for slaves
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Treaty of Tordesillas
- Treaty stating what newly found land what country could conquer
- Between Spain and Portugul
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Treaty of Tordesillas picture
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Spice
Reason for all explorations
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Tabula Rasa
- "Blank slate"
- John Lockes theory
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Philosophes
- French for philosophers
- members of a group of enlightment
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Laissez Faire
- "Hands off"
- Governments non-interferance with economy and personal bussiness
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George Washington
- First President
- First General
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Bill of rights
First ten Amendments to the constitution
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Tithe
- Tithing
- 10% of income given to the church
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Moluccas
- Island chain in present-day Indonesia that was known as the Spice islands
- Chief source of spice
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Menes
King that united Upper and Lower Egypt
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What did the National Assembly swore at the Tennis Court Oath?
They swore " never to seperateand to meed wherever the circumstances might require until we have established a sound and just constitution"
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Dharma
In Hindu belief, an individuals religious and moral duties
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Nirvana
In Buddhism, union with the universe, and realease from the cycle of rebirth
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Polis
City-state in ancient Greece
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Acropolis
Highest and most fortified point with a Greek City-state
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Patriarchal
Describing a family headed by the father, husband, or oldest male
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Theocracy
Government run by religious leaders
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Cuneiform
Wedged-shaped writing of the ancient Sumerians
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Polytheistic
Belief in many gods
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Monotheistic
Belief in one god
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Ibo
- People of south Nigeria
- Christian Ibo people donimated the oil-rich south
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What did Francis Bacon believed scientists should?
- Stress on expierementation and observation
- Make life better for people by leading to practical technology
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Interdict
In the Roman Catholic church, excommunication of an entire region, town, or kingdom
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Gold coast
Region of West Africa which is now the nation of Ghana
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Republic
- A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch
- A community or group with a certain equality between its members
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Why was King Louis XVI force to accept the National Assembly?
because the third estate recruited some of the first and second estate
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Harrappan
(Harappa) Ancient archaeological site uncovering a lost civilization.
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Yoga
A Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation
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Mahabharata
One of the two great Sanskrit epics of the Hindus, existing in its present form since c.ad 400.It describes the civil war waged between the five Pandava brothers and their 100 stepbrothers at Kuruksetra near modern Delhi
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Dao
- "the way" of the universe
- daoism was founded by Laozi
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