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Feb 10, 1100
Unit 1
European Crusaders battled muslims for control of the holy lands in southwest Asia -
Feb 10, 1275
Unit 1
Marco Polo reached Kublai Khan in China -
Feb 10, 1400
Unit 1
European merchants sought out to bypass Italian merchants -
Aug 3, 1492
Unit 2
The Nina Pinta and santa Maria sailed out of a Spanish port -
Oct 12, 1492
Unit 2
The Pinta reached the east indies -
Feb 10, 1519
Unit 2
Magellan embarked on his voyage -
Feb 10, 1572
Unit 3
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris sparked a six-week, nationwide slaughter of Huguenots -
Unit 4
English writer Mary Astell published 'A serious Proposel to the Ladies" Her book adressed the lack of educational oppertunites for women. -
Unit 3
England, Austria, the Dutch Republic, and Portugal joined together to prevent the union of French and Spanish thrones. The long stuggle that followed was know as the War Of Spanish Succession. -
Unit 3
The treaty of Utrecht was signed, under its terms Louis's grandson was allowed to remain king of Spain so long as the thrones of France and Spain were not united -
Unit 4
Baron de Montesquieu published his most famous book "On the Spirit of Laws" in his book, he proposed that seperation of powers would keep any individual or group from gaining total control of the government . -
Unit 4
Jean Jacques Rosseau published "The Social Contract" in Which he explained his thoughts of how only good government was the one that was freely formed by the people and guided by the "general will" of society, a direct democracy. -
Unit 5
The second estate forced Louis XVI to call a meeting of the Estates-General, an assembly of representives from all three estates to appove a new tax -
Unit 5
The delegates of the thrid estates agreed to Sieyes's idea of the thrid esate delegates name themsevles the National assembly, so they voted to establish the national assembly, in effect proclaiming the end of absolute monarcy and the beginning of repesenitive government. -
Unit 6
100,000 enslaved Africans rose to revolt aganist their French masters. -
Unit 5
The national assembly completed the new constution, which Louie XVI approved. -
Unit 6
30,000 French troops landed in saint Domingue to remove toussaint from power. In May Toussaint areed to halt the revolution if the French would end slavery. -
Unit 6
Padre Miguel Hidalgo, a preist in the small village of Dolores, took the first step toward independance. He rang the bells of his village church. When the peasents gathered in the church he issued a call for rebellion aganist the spanish. Today that call is known as "the cry of Dolores"
