Section 1 Flashcards
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Artifacts
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Everyday objects, such as art tools, clothing, weapons, and art.
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Hominids
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Human and human like creatures
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Hieroglyphics
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Form of writing develop by people of the Nile river valley
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Cro- Magnons
Magnons
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Made cave paintings in France and Spain
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Nomads
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Moved from place to place to search for food
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Scribes
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Literate government workers
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Ziggurats
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Baked bricked temples
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Irrigation
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Ways to move after to places where there is none
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Cuneiform
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Symbols carved with a stylus
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Culture Diffusion
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Spread of culture and ideas from one area to another
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Amenhotep IV
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Monotheistic pharaoh
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Fertile Crescent
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Runs from the isthmus of sues through Southeast Asia to Persian gulf
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City state
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Form of community created by the Summerians
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Hammurabi
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Powerful Babylonian ruler
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Zoroaster
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Taught about the struggles between good and evil
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Indo Aryan religious text
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Vedas
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Bhagavad Gita
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Epic Poem
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Ancient Harrapan city
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Mohenjo Daro
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Powerful Priests
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Brahmins
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Fierce ruler who became a Buddhist
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Asoka
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Level of percent peace
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Nirvana
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Gaining Salvation in Buddhism
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Four Noble Truths
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Unity of God and Creation
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Monism
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Ancient Civilization in the Indus Riber Valley
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Harrapan
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Living a life of good will, striving for perfection
Right Intentions
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China Proper
The heart of china
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Loess
Yellow soil
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Zhongguo
"Middle kingdoms", or center of the world
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Bureaucracy
Government organized into differ levels and tasks
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Animism
Belief that spirits inhabit everything
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Oracle Bones
Used to make predictions
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Autocracy
Total power for emperor
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Silk Road
Famous Trade route
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Analects
Collected works of Confucius
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Laozi
Found of Daoism
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Linear B
Early form of greek writing
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Archons
Nine elected who served one tart terms
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Polis
City state
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Aristocracy
Rule by the nobles
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Plato
Was responsible for the theory of forms
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Aristotle
Had a special skill for defining and classifying things
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Acropolis
A large hill on the polis
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Sophocles
Was responsible for the best tragic play
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Delian League
Unified city states
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Demosthenes
Led the Athenian opposition to Phillip 2
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Pericles
Athenian democracy reached it's greatest height during his regin
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Solon
Freed people who had been sold into slavery
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Xerxes
Led a army to avenge his fathers defeat
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Themistocles
Led Athenians during Persian wars
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Darius
Will be defeated at the Battle of Marathon
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Inflation
Rises in prices due to devalued money
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Aqueducts
Bridge like structures that carried water from the mountains
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Martyrs
People who were put to death because of their beliefs
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Constantine
Supported Christianity
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Pax- Romana y
Time of peace begging with the regin of Augustus
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Justinian Code
Byzantine law based on Roman justice
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Iconoclast
Those against worshiping idols
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Boyars
Kevian Russian nobles
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Rurik
Leader of the rus
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Vladimir 1
Christina Kievean Russian ruler
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Taiga
A cold rainy agriculture region
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Mosque
A Muslim place of worship
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Diamond Sutra
The worlds first printed book
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Du Fo
Poet during the Tang Dynasty
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Sejong
Korean ruler who promoted Korean alphabet
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Shinto
Way of the kami
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Honshu
Main island of japan of dynasty
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Philip 2
Kidnapped at an early age
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Herodotus
Recorded the history of much known Ancient World
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Socrates
Taught that students should be trained to think for themselves
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Phidias
Created the statue of Athena that decorated the Parthenon
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Hippocrates
Founder of modern medicine
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Senate
Controlled public funds and managed foreign policy
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Praetor
Commanded armies and oversaw the legal system
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Plebeians
Made up the population
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Hannibal
Crossed the alps to attack Italy
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Gaius Marius
General who created a powerful volunteer army
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Steppe
Warm, dry agriculture region
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Czar
Absolute monarch or Cesar
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Ivan 1
The first great prince
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"Third Rome"
Moscow
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Beoudins
Nomadic Arab herders
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Mecca
Center of trade and religion
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Hijrah
Flight to Yathrib
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Qur'ran
Book of religious beliefs and instructions
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Jihad
Struggle to defend faith
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Caliph
Successor to the prophet
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Sunni
Believe on rule of the prophet
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Sufi
Taught simplicity in life
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Shi'ah
Believed on rule of imams
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Yi Dynasty
Powerful Korean dynasty
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Fujiwara
1st family to gain control over the central government in japan
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Khmer empire
Controlled much of southwestern Asia
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Bushido
"Way of kami"
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Daimyo
Powerful local lord
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Urban 2
Said "God wills it", in trying to gain favor for the 1st crusade
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John Wycliffe
Preached that everyone had the right to interpret the bible for themselves
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Henry Tudor
Married a a daughter from the rival family house of York
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John Hus
Was speaking out against the church at the university of Prague
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Philip 2
Turned his army away from the 3rd crusade to gain back native lands
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Saladin
Allowed Christina's to worship freely in Jerusalem
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Joan of Arc
Had visions from God and inspired and led the French soldiers into battle
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Helped legitimize Vernacular languages
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Innocent 3
Ordered the 4th crusade and was one of the most powerful popes in history
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Edward 3
Was an English king and a French Vassal at the same time
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Seljuq Turks
Captured the holy land
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Market economy
Individual control of land labor and capital
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Great Schism
Period Where there were several Popes at the same time
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Merchant guild
Given the sole right to trading the specific town
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Domestic system
Manufacture of a product at home
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Usury
Church prohibited this at first but will later allow it
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Babylonian Captivity
The church was central located in France during this period of time
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Hanseatic League
Created to protect trade
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Craft guild
Established rules and training for skilled workers
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Scholasticism
Attempt to bring faith and reason together
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Preach that some were destined for salvation
John Calvin
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Founded the Jesuits
Ignatius de Loyola
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Wrote the book of courtier
Baldassare Castiglione
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Dutch scholar was one of the first to criticize the church
Desiderius Erasmus
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Writer who argued the rulers should only pursue power
Niccilo Machiavelli
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Created movable type printing press
Johannes Gutenburg
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Wrote the 95 thesis
Martin Luther
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Artist that used science to make his paintings more realistic
Leonardo da Vinci
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Created the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel
Michaelangelo
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Wrote romantic poems about an imaginary ideal women
Francesco Petrarch
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Humanists
People who study history poetry rhetoric, grammar etc
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Perspective
Used to make paintings more realistic
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Henry VIII
Was given the title defender of the faith
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Johan tetzel
Was ordered to raise funds for the church
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Theocracy
Government ruled by religious leaders
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Thomas More
Stated the individual ownership of land was evil
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Huldrych Zwingli
Was calling for religious reform in Switzerland
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Indulgences
Main complaint of the protestant reformers
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William Shakespeare
Took classic stories and transform them into dramatic stories
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Charles V
Tried to stop the spread of Protestantism in Germany
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Scientific method
Reaching conclusions threw observing measuring and testing
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Subsides
Government support of domestic industry
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Heliocentric
Centered theory
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Triangular trade
Exchange of goods for slaves
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Francis Bacon
Believed no assumption could be trusted without repeat experimentation
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America Vespucci
Believe that Columbus did not land in Asia
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Philip II
Spanish ruler lost the Netherlands
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Mercantilism
Stated it was responsibility of government to increase wealth
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Johannes Kepler
Used mathematics to prove Copernicus was right
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Columbian exchange
Trade between Europe and the Americas
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Edward VI
Son of Henry VIII
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Cardinal Richlieu
Believed that the hugenots posed a threat to national unity
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Elizabeth I
Protestant English queen
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Frederick William
Known as the great Elector
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Peter I
Created the city of St. Petersburg
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Henry VII
First tutdor king
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Philip V
Louis XIVs grandson
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Frederick I
First Hohenzollern king
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Henry IV
First bourbon ruler
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King James I
Created a new translation of the Bible
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Louis XIV
Built the palace of Versailles
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Frederick II
Didn't want to become king when he was young
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Jean Baptiste Colbert
Expert in finance
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Maria Theresa
Inherited Hasburg lands due to pragmatic sanction
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Mary Stuart
Queen of Scotland
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Louis XII
Needed able advisors to rule effectively due to illness
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Peter III
Unpopular czar, nursery by nobles
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Fredrick William I
Required that all children must attend school
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Catherine II
Supported the arts theater and literature
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Mary I
reigning queen of England
