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Scientific Revolution
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1543
Heliocentric Theory
Believed sun is center of the universe and earth revolves around sun -
Galileo Galilei
agreed with what Copernicus and told Catholic church. Catholic church objected what he said and wouldn't believe it. -
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John Locke
John Locke was an English philosopher that believed that all people were born naturally good. He believed that once a person is born their mind is like a blank slate, they don't know anything until they experience or learn it. -
The Start of the War
Charles I was angry at parliament and refused to have parliament for 11 years. Conflict between cavilers and roundheads. -
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English Civil War
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Oliver Cromwell ends the war
The round heads found a strong leader named Oliver Cromwell. He leads to victory. Roundheads win the war. -
Common wealth
Commonwealth was a type of government with no king and was ruled by parliament. This happened after the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell ruled the commonwealth and was harsh to the people of England. -
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Voltaire
Was a Philosopher that defended freedom of speech. He said; " I don't believe a word you said but will defend to death your right to say it. -
The East India British CO.
British Used India for their trading company. This proved to other countries that Britain was superior. -
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Enlightenment
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau was a philosopher that believed people were born naturally good. Rousseau despised inequality in society and quoted "Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains." -
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Napoleon
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The colonization of Australia
In 1788 Port Jackson colonized at Sydney cove. -
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French Revolution
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Storming of the Bistille
French men and women storm the prison to get ammo. This was the official start of the Revolution. They attacked the guards with knives and fists. They then let the prisoners that were in the prison go. -
The Bread March
This event happened when the price of bread was increased. The women formed a bread march because they were starving and their children were starving. The women marched right to the palace of Versailles. They took the king and demanded that the price of bread should be lowered. -
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Revolutions of the 1800s
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Industrial Revolution
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Eli Whitney's Cotten Gin
This machine helped workers separate the seed from the cotton plant. This created a lot more cotton balls being produced as opposed to when the men would pick the seeds out by hand. Unfortunately this machine created slavery more efficient because they could do all the work of the gin. -
The Guillotein was invinted
The guillotine was named after Joseph Guillotin. It was named after because of what he had said, "Now with my machine. I cut off your head in the twinkling of an eye, and you never feel it! -
Louis and Marie Antoinette death
Louis XVI died in January 21 1793, Marie Antoinette died in October. Before Louis XVI died, There was a vote to keep him dead or alive. The convention voted 387 to 334 to execute the monarchs. -
End of Revolution
The Revolution's end was when Maximillian Robespierre was murdered on the guillotine. This is when the Revolution got way out of hand. People were killed for no reason of all. -
Vaccination
Vaccinations were made to prevent disease. This saved many lives from small pox which was a bad disease in the 1800s. -
Napoleon as "First Consul
In November 9, 1799. Napoleon launched a coup d'état. He proclaimed himself "first consul." -
Gold/precious medals in Australia
In Australia, colonists found out that there was gold and precious medals there. They all wanted in on this and this the start of when Australia became colonized. -
Concordat
This concordat, enabled Catholicism to be religion of the majority of Frenchmen. Bishops were to be chosen by Napoleon. -
The Contenental System
The goal of the Continental system was to isolate Britain and help Napoleon with Conquering Europe. Britain proclaimed any ship stopping in Great Britain would be seized. This eventually lead to the war of 1812. -
Napoleons last batle
Napoleon's last battle was in Waterloo. This was a defeat. After the war Napoleon was exiled to the island of St. Helena where he died from Stomach cancer. -
John Deere and the steel plow
This invention made it easier for farmers to plow their fields. This is because the plow was made of steel and not wood which would break easier. After this invention there is now a company named after him that have lawn mowers and other lawn effective products -
The First Photograph
Louis Daguerre takes the first successful photograph in Paris. Because it takes so long to process one of his photos, moving objects cannot be photographed. -
Lowell girls
There was one acceptable place for young women to work. This was in Lowell in the factory. Young girls from all over would quit the farm life to work in these factories. -
The telograph
The telegraph was invented by a man named Samuel Morse. This was a device that was used to communicate with other people because they didn't have phones back then. He also create a "code" called the Morse code that is a series of dots and dashes to communicate. -
The Potato famine
The potato famine was a horrible time for the Irish. The staple food in Ireland was potatoes. When this happened the Irish starved to death or became deathly ill from not eating any food. -
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The second French Republic
It was a new constitution provided for an elected president and a one house legislator. -
Coup d'tat
This was when Napoleon Bonaparte was said to have took the crown and crowned himself emperor. -
The Crystal palace
Largest enclosed space in the world at the time. This building had 300,000 panes of glass. People from all over the world would visit this building to see what is going on in the rest of the world. -
Crimean War
This war was caused by the weakening of the Ottoman empire. Russia wanted to take control of the Ottoman empire because they wanted more land than they already had. France and Britain did not want that to happen because of how big it was already. They then allied with the Ottoman empire so that Russia would not win. -
Sepoy mutiny
This mutiny was when the Sepoys (Indian soldiers) rebelled against the British east India trading Co. The gun powder was sealed with pig and cow fat and it was considered in sacred. -
The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal was a canal in the Middle East near Egypt. The Egyptians could not pay off their debts, so Britain stepped in and took the Suez Canal. This is a very important Canal because it allows ships to not have to go all the way around the Africa. -
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Victorian England
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The invasion of Zulus
The Zulus were a native tribe that lived in Africa. Britain wanted to colonize them but they resisted. Britain then declared war on them and the Zulus were out numbered. The Zulus kept fighting for a while and used Guerilla tactics to try and ambush the British fighters. They fought for a while until they started losing men because of how much they were outnumbered. -
The Eiffel tower
The Eiffel tower was built by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. The tower was originally built to be part of the 1889 exposition. -
The Dreyfus affair
The Dreyfus affair was when a man named Alfred Dreyfus was accused for something that he did not do. He was found guilty and got sent to "Devils Island" which was a prison. The real person that actually did it was Major Esterhazy who had the same handwriting as him. -
J'Accuse
A famous author, Emile Zola, published an open letter called "J’Accuse." This literally meant I accuse. He had accused the army of a mistrial and a cover-up. The government prosecuted him and sentenced him to 1 year in prison. -
Mussolini propaganda
Mussolini creates a newspaper called Li Popolo Italia meaning The people of Italy to cause people to join the war. Doing this caused him to become popular. -
The Boer war
Dutch settlers had lived in a settlement and they were the boers. Different country's discovered that there was gold in that area. Boers refused to grant political rights to foreigners, including British. War broke out between the Boers and Britain in 1899. The Boers outnumbered Britain and Britain was defeated. -
The invention of the plane
People in this time have been attempting to fly all the time. But eventually one got it right. The Wright brothers; Orville and Wilbur, flew a gasoline powered plane for a minute at Kitty Hawk North Carolina. -
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This was the official spark of the war. This was highly significant because it was killing the person who was soon going to be the emperor of Austria-Hungary. The man who did it was from Serbia and most of the blame was put on Serbia for this shooting. -
Germany marches and invades Belgium
This was a significant thing that triggered everything. The countries then took a central side or allied side and all were ready for war. The Germans creates a treaty to quickly evade France and move on. This plan did not work but instead it creates a stale mate. -
Lenin takes over Russian government
Vladimir Lenin takes over the government because of how weak it was. Before that though he actually had the people agree with him and wanted everyone to be equal. This is officially when Russia becomes communist. -
Zimmermann telogram
The Zimmermann telogram was a telogram from Germany to Mexico. That said to fight the U.S. Britain intercepts the telogram and gives it to the US. That is when The US had it they then started to fight in the war. -
Armistice day
This the day the Great War ended and all the soldiers stopped fighting because the treaty was signed. -
The Germans workers party
This is the group where Hitler agreed with their statements and joined this group. He renamed it the Nazis. This is the start of the Nazi party -
The Year of Crisis
The year of crisis was when a mark went down in value. It started out being about 2 Marks for a U.S dollar. But by the end of 1923 the price jumped to a mere 1,000,000,000 marks. This contributed in the rise of Hitler. -
The first Car
Henry Ford set out to build a car which everyone could buy. It was slow, ugly, and difficult to drive. The price for the Model T Ford cost only $295. -
the Global depression
This was the time when the street crash happened in the U.S and people needed trade with the U.S because people were borrowing money from the U.S this caused a huge unemployment rate and people were not happy. -
The Gestapo
The Gestapo started to target the Jews and pulled them out of their homes and stores. They would bring them to ghettos where they would live poorly and with horrible conditions. -
The Great Terror
The Great Terror was when Stalin killed everyone that he found a threat. 20 Million Russian innocent civilians were killed just for looking suspicious. This is the main way Stalin killed people. Not only were they killed but were takin out of photos -
The Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking was a horrid event and people in Nanjing were brutally killed just because they had surrendered. This event had killed 300000 people.
