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Christopher Columbus discovered the new world when trying to find an easier route to India. Columbus was traveling from Spain, he thought that he could go west to eastern Asia but he found something much better.
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Martin Luther wrote 95 theses on how the church was corrupt and their teachings were wrong. These 95 theses would eventually become the foundation of the protestant reformation.
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The Edict of Nantes was a law that allowed freedom of religion because of the protestant reformation. The Edict of Nantes was written and passed by Henry IV.
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The English civil war was a conflict between the Cavaliers (supported the king) and the Roundheads (supported parliament). The roundheads won the English civil war so the power was in parliament.
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In 1685 Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes and replaced it with the Edict of Fontainebleau. The Edict of Fontainebleau took away the Hugenots rights that the Edict of Nantes gave them.
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The glorious revolution was called ¨glorious¨ because there was no blood involved. The glorious revolution ended up being the deposition of James II.
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Peter the Great builds St. Petersburg and makes it their capital. Peter the Great built it so it could be the window to the west and helps westernizing Russia.
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The American revolution was when the 13 colonies that Great Britain owned decided they waned to be independent. America and Great Britain fought in the Revolutionary war, America shockingly won.
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The French revolution was a bloodbath, it started out with the storming of the Bastille and ended with the great terror. There was hundreds of people dying every month because they spoke bad about what was happening. The revolution ended when Napoleon came to power in the late 1790s.
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The Congress of Vienna was created so there could be a balance of power and peace in Europe. It worked for 99 years until a war finally happened. A bad thing that was caused by this was that Italy and Germany were broken up into city-states which did not go over well.
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Matthew Perry was sent by the US to a very isolated Japan to see if they would be willing to trade. Japan did not trade with other countries because of the influence it would give Japanese people. Perry basically used force with Japan and it worked.
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When Germany got broken up by the Congress of Vienna, the people did not like that. Otto von Bismark, from Prussia, sought out to appeal the nationalists in Germany and eventually unified Germany into its own independent country.
