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Their union, and their rule, triggered a war that forged the modern world -
He ruled until he died
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She's regarded as one of the greatest monarchs of England
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granted a large measure of religious liberty -
considered by many to be the first modern novel and one of the greatest novels of all time -
Emperor Ferdinand forced Catholicism throughout the region, which made Protestants fear losing their rights to worship
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English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state, reportedly of equal value to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights
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Members, in both houses, were almost unanimous in their condemnation of the non-parliamentary policies of the Personal Rule
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He reigned king until his death.
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Peace of Westphalia formally ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe
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book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651
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Charles II was crowned king during this time.
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He was the first emperor of all of Russia
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involved the overthrow of the Catholic King James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange
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What became known as the English Bill of Rights was an important influence on the later American Constitution -
Two Treatises of Government, major statement of the political philosophy -
credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person -
Musician known for his orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos
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Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World -
He ruled until he died in 1786
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Austria was also controlled by his mother at a time.
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significantly influential work on Western political thought -
twenty-eight volume reference book -
global conflict involving most of the European great powers
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It was written between July and December 1758 and published simultaneously in Geneva, Paris and Amsterdam in January 1759
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Ruling Britain was his first priority and he never visited his family's home in Hanover
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aimed at the common good and reflected in the laws of an ideal state and for maintaining that existing society rests on a false social contract that perpetuates inequality and rule -
Catherine II was crowned in 1762, overpowering her husband.
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Confrontation of British soldiers shooting into a crowd -
American protest on tax of tea in Britain -
made to preserve the peace and good order of the said province -
Marked the start of the American war for independence -
independence of America -
Offers one the the first world's economic accounts of capitalism -
Decisive engagement of American Revolution -
ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.
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Every human being has the right to life, liberty and the security of his person -
dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation
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revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armory
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This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris.
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the day the Frame of Government drafted by the convention's delegates to replace the Articles was adopted and signed
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Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women -
make society better overall if women were allowed the same educational opportunities as men -
to replace the previous legislative bodies after the end of the monarchy
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Individuals see the beginning of the radical phase as the attack on the Tuileries Palace and ending with the Thermidorian Reaction
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committee of the National Convention which formed the provisional government and war cabinet during the Reign of Terror -
Killed anyone who didn't follow French constitution
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was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic -
Napoleon's elevation to emperor was overwhelmingly approved by the French citizens in the French constitutional referendum
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one of the most important and decisive military engagements of the Napoleonic Wars -
This took place where Napoleon Bonarte tried to take over Europe. -
The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Tsar Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon I. -
abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba
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reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars
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Having escaped his previous exile from Elba, off the coast of Italy, the French emperor was a flight risk to his fellow European rulers who wanted rid of him