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The marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile created the unified state called Spain -
Second Tudor king of England
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During this time, England became an important European power; she became Queen after the death of Queen Mary
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Issued by King Henry IV to give more religious freedom to French Protestants -
Written by Miguel de Cervantes and mocks traditions of Spain’s feudal past -
Series of war that began in Bohemia, the present-day Czech Republic
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English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state -
Welcomed back after the monarchy was restored; reopened theaters and taverns and presided over a lively court in the manner of Louis XIV
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Followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence
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Failed to support his ministers, who tried to reform France’s finances and social institutions
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Series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years’ War -
In it, he argued that people were naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish -
Bloodless overthrow of the king
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Co‐regent of Austria with his mother Maria Theresa from 1765 and sole ruler from 1780 to 1790.
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Several acts passed by Parliament; ensured the superiority of Parliament over the monarchy -
Locke proposed that government emerges from the consent of the government to protect their natural rights, which is the thesis of what is now called social contract theory. -
Locke proposed that government emerges from the consent of the government to protect their natural rights, which is the thesis of what is now called social contract theory.
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Peter had military victories over Russia's great rivals; the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden
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An exciting tale about a sailor shipwrecked on a tropical island -
Uses fantasy to satirize, or make of of, English political life -
He was a member of a remarkable family of musicians who were proud of their achievements -
Served as king of Prussia after his father Fredrick William I
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A book where he discussed governments throughout history. -
The purpose of this writing was "to change the general way of thinking" by explaining ideas on topics such as government, philosophy, and religion. -
War fought on four continents
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Voltaire slyly uses the tale to expose the corruption and hypocrisy of European society -
Fist true British monarch of the Hanoverian kings
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Jacque wrote this due to feeling that society placed too many limitations on people's behaviors. -
Took over the rule of Russia after the assassination of her husband, Tsar Petter III
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Treaty that ended the Seven Years’ War and resulted in British dominance of the Americas -
A street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers -
A handful of colonists hurled a cargo of recently arrived British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
Colonists clashed with British troops; the opening shots of the American Revolution -
The product of seventeen years of notes and earlier studies -
Pledged “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor” to the cause of the United States of America -
Washington forced the surrender of the British Army
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World's longest surviving written charter of government. Its first three words – “We The People” -
The Assembly issued it and the document was modeled in part on the American Declaration of Independence -
Famous oath made on a tennis court by the Third Estate in pre-revolutionary France -
When revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille -
Six thousand women marched 13 miles in the pouring ran from Paris to Versailles -
Olympe de Gouges demanded equal rights; women were disappointed that the Declaration of the Rights of Man did not grand equal citizenship to them -
One of the earliest works of feminist philosophy; the main purpose was that women should be treated with equal dignity and respect to men, especially regarding education -
The overthrow of the Legislative Assembly and suspension of King Louis XVI, turning France into a republic
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Voted to abolish the monarchy and establish a republic -
People in France were arrested for not supporting the revolution and many were executed
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Deals with the threats to France -
During the French Revolution, it moved this which the government was headed
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Emporer of the French under the name, Napoleon I -
British Navy defeated the French -
Napoleon had won a crushing victory against an austro-Russian army of superior numbers -
France defeated Napoleon
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An island in the Mediterranean -
Assembly of the European leaders that met after the Napoleonic era to piece Europe back together
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Lonely island in the South Atlantic however, this time he would not return