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Who established strong Royal authority in France and gave her some religious freedom?

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Henry the 4th

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Who was the regent to Louis the 13th and persecuted Huguenots and weakened the nobility’s power?

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Cardinal Richelieu

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Who was the swedish king, hero and casualty of 30 Years War?

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Gustavus Adolphus

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Who claimed “I am the State!”

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Louis the 14th

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Who was the Prussian who built roads, postal system, free education, with some religious and legal freedom?

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Frederick William

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Who turned Prussia into a world power with a strong military?

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Frederick the 2nd

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What was the Austrian Royal family name?

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Hapsburg

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Who was nicknamed “the terrible”?

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Ivan

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Who sought to westernize Russia and traveled to England/the Netherlands to learn all he could?

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Peter the Great

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Who was the immoral and ambitious ruler who took land from both Poland and Turkey?

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Catherine the 2nd the Great

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Who authorized a new translation of the English Bible in 1611?

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James the 1st

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Who was the arrogant king whose refusal to work with Parliament led to his beheading?

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Charles the 1st

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Who called himself the “Lord protector”, ruled with deep religious convictions?

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Oliver Cromwell

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Who was the “merry monarch”?

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Charles the 2nd

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Who was disposed by his daughter and son-in-law in the Glorious Revolution?

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King James II

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Who signed the English Bill of Rights?

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William and Mary

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Who is the prime minister of Great Britain today?

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Keir Starmer

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What was the name of the extravagant Palace built Louie the 14th?

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Palace of Versailles

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What country is known for the greatest absolute ruler?

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France

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What country is known for militarism?

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Prussia

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What Empire is known for great ethnic diversity?

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Austria

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What country is known for its greatest pursuit of seaports?

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Russia

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What country absolutism checked?

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England

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What country did the Great Awakening happen?

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United States

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Who created the laws of gravity?
Isaac Newton
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Who created flat maps?
Gerhardus Mercator
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Who said as pressure increases, volume decreases?
Robert Boyle
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Who improved the telescope?
Galileo
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Who improved the microscope?
Anton vesalius
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Who worked on cadavers and anatomy?
Edward Jenner
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Who created the heliocentric theory?
Copernicus
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Who created the laws of conservation of matter?
Lavoisier
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Who believed in inductive reasoning?
Francis Bacon reasoning from specific cases to a general conclusion
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What is the belief that God is in everything?
Pantheism
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What theory means that all knowledge comes from experience?
Blank tablet Theory
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Who is the outspoken critic of leaders?
Voltaire
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Who was the encyclopedia editor?
Diderot
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Who believes in the separation of powers?
Montesquieu
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Who believes in the social contract theory?
John Locke
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Who believed in deductive reasoning I think therefore I am?
Renee Descartes
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Who believes in emotions?
Jean jacque rousseit
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Who is the Billy Graham of the spiritual awakening?
George Whitefield
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Who wrote sinners in the hands of an Angry God?
Jonathan Edwards
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Who was the hymn Rider and famous brother Christ is the Lord risen today and can it be?
Charles Wesley
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Who wrote Joy to the World and When I Survey the Wondrous Cross?
Isaac Watts
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Who began Methodist denomination?
John Wesley
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Who begin the Wesleyan domination?
John Wesley and Charles Wesley
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What was the name of the German religious movement in the 17th century?
Pietism
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Who made The Marriage of Figaro and was a classical composer?
Mozart
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Who made Guilvers travel?
Jonathan Swift
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Who was the Baroque painter who developed the use of chiaroscuro?
Rembrandt
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Who was the baroque musician, developed oratorios, the messiah?
Handel
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Who made mannerism art?
El Greco
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Who wrote social comedies?
Moliere
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Who was the father of Symphony?
Joseph Hayden
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Who was the historian who blamed Christians for the fall of Rome?
Edward Gibbon
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What word means armed forces of the center of national interest?
Militarism
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What is the term for Russian emperor?
Czar
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What is the study of stars plants?
Astronomy
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What word means reasoning from specific cases to a general conclusion?
Inductive reasoning
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What word means the belief that God is in everything?
Pantheism
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What word means all knowledge comes from experience and experience makes us good or bad?
Empiricism
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What word means using comedy and sarcasm too ridiculous folly and vice?
Satire
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What is a belief that the Earth is the center of the universe?
Geocentric theory
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What is the belief if the government doesn't preserve life liberty and property of the people people have the right to change their government?
Social contract
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What word means reasoning from a simple premise to a more complex conclusion?
Deductive reasoning
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What word means social critics and reformers who believed man could and should solve his own problems?
Philosophe
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What word means the belief that God is just a Master Clock Winder?
Deism
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What word means unnatural color is distorted and exaggerated figures?
Mannerism
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What word means feminine refined or elegant?
Rococo
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What word means orderly clam formal and without emotion?
Enlightenment
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What word means Grand Dynamic and emotional?
Baroque
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