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AP European History Terms for the Midyear Exam

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Humanism   show
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Individualism   show
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New Monarch   show
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Rationalism   show
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Renaissance   show
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Secularism   show
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Lorenzo Valla   show
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show The striving for personal excellence  
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show The sensuous and dynamic style of art of the counter reformation  
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Brethren of the Common Life   show
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show (1509-1564) A French theologian who established a theocracy in Geneva and is best known for his theory of predestination  
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Charles V   show
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show The congress of learned Roman Catholic authorities that met intermittently from 1545 to 1563 to reform abusive church practices and reconcile with the protestants  
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Index   show
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Indulgence   show
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show A religious committee of six Roman Cardinals that tried heretics and punished the guilty by imprisonment and execution  
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John Knox   show
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Martin Luther   show
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show (1478-1535) Renaissance humanist and chancellor of England, executed by Henry VIII for his unwillingness to recognize publicly his king as Supreme Head of the church and clergy of England  
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show The practice of rewarding relatives with church positions  
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show (1555) Document in which Charles V recognized Lutheranism as a legal religion in the HRE The faith of the prince determined the religion of his subjects  
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Pluralism   show
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show The selling of church offices  
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Theocracy   show
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Usury   show
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show (1594-1632)Swedish Lutheran who won victories for the German Protestants in the Thirty Years War and lost his life in one of the battles  
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Duke of Alva   show
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Armada   show
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show First European to reach the Pacific Ocean, 1513  
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show (1547-1589) The wife of Henry II (1547-1559)of France, who exercised political influence after the death of her husband and during the rule of her weak sons  
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Christopher Columbus   show
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Fernando Cortez   show
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Defenestration of Prague   show
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Bartholomew Diaz   show
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Dutch East India Company   show
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Edict of Nantes   show
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Elizabeth I   show
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Prince Henry the Navigator   show
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show (1589-1610) Formerly Henry of Navarre; ascended the French throne as a convert to Catholicism. Survived St. Bartholomew's Day, Signed Edict of Nantes, quoted as saying "Paris is worth a mass"  
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show French Calvinists  
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show Circumnavigator of the globe, 1519-1522  
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Peace of Westphalia   show
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Philip II   show
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Francisco Pizarro   show
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show (August 24, 1572) Catholic attack on Calvinists on the marriage day of Margaret of Valois to Henry of Navarre(later Henry IV)  
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show (1572-1584) Leader of the seveteen provinces of the Netherlands  
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Cardinal Richelieu   show
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show The theory that the monarch is supreme and can exercise full and complete power unilaterally  
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Bill of Rights   show
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show (1625-1649) Stuart King who brought conflict with Parliament to a head and was subsequently executed  
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show (1660-1685) Stuart king during the restoration, following Cromwell's Interregnum  
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Colbert   show
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Constitutionalism   show
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Oliver Cromwell   show
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Diggers and Levellers   show
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Divine Right Monarchy   show
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Fredrick the Great   show
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show (1640-1688) The "Great Elector" who built a strong Prussian army an infused military values into Prussian society  
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show A reference to the political events of 1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by is daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William of Orange  
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show The last aristocratic revolt against a French monarch  
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Habeas Corpus   show
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Thomas Hobbes   show
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show The period of Cromwellian rule (1649-1659), between the Stuart dynastic rules of Charles I and Charles II  
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show (1603-1625) Stuart monarch who ignored constitutional principles and asserted the divine right of kings  
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James II   show
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show (1632-1704) Political theorist who defended the Glorious Revolution with the argument that all people are born with certain natural rights to life, liberty, and property  
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show Also known as the "Sun King"; the ruler of France who established the supremacy of absolutism in seventeenth-century Europe  
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Maria Theresa   show
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Mercantilism   show
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New Model Army   show
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show (1713) the pact concluding the War of Spanish Succession forbidding the union of France with Spain, and conferring control of Gibraltar on England  
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show (1682-1725) The Romanov czar who initiated the westernization of Russian society by traveling to the west and incorporating techniques of manufacturing as well as manners and dress  
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Petition of Right   show
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show A reference to the English civil war (1642-1646), waged to determine whether sovereignty would reside in the monarch or parliament  
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Puritans   show
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show The return of the Stuart monarchy (1660) after the period of republican government under Cromwell - in fact, a military dictatorship  
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show (1673) Law prohibiting Catholics and dissenters to hold political office  
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Versailles   show
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show (1701-1713) The last of Louis XIV's wars involving the issue of succession to the Spanish throne  
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William of Orange   show
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show the geocentric view of the universe that prevailed from the fourth century B.C. to the sixteenth centuries and accorded with church teachings and scriptures  
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show (1561-1626) inductive thinker who stressed experimentation in arriving at truth  
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show (1473-1543) Polish astronomer who posited a heliocentric universe in place of geocentric universe  
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Deism   show
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show (1596-1650) Deductive thinker whose famous saying cogito, ergo sum(I think therefor I am) challenged the notion of truth as being derived from tradition and scriptures  
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Enlightenment   show
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show (1564-1642) Italian scientist who formulated terrestrial laws and the modern law of inertia; he also provided evidence for the Copernican hypothesis  
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Laissez-faire   show
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show (1642-1727) English scientist who formulated the law of gravitation that posited a universe operating in accord with natural law  
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show Social critics of the eighteenth century who subjected social institutions and practices to the test of reason  
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show Organized bodies for scientific study  
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show John Locke's concept of the mind as a blank sheet ultimately bombarded by sense impressions that,sided by human reasoning, formulate ideas  
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show Crime and Punishment  
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show Encyclopedia  
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David Hume   show
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John Locke   show
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show Spirit of the Laws  
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show The Social Contract; Emile  
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Adam Smith   show
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Voltaire   show
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Mary Wollstonecraft   show
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Ancien Regime(Old Regime)   show
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Bastille   show
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show List of grievances that each Estate drew up in preparation for the summoning of the Estates-General in 1789  
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show The codification and condensation of laws assuring legal equality and uniformity in France  
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Committee of Public Safety   show
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show Napoleon's arrangement with Pope Pius VII to heal religious division in France with a united Catholic church under bishops appointed by the government  
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show Napoleon's efforts to block foreign trade with England by forbidding importation of British goods in Europe  
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Coup d'etat   show
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show (1791) Austria and Prussia agreed to intervene in France to end the revolution with the unanimous agreement of the great powers  
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show (August 27, 1789) Document that embodied the liberal revolutionary ideas and general principles of the philosophes' writings  
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Directory   show
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show The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime  
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show The panic and insecurity that struck French peasants in the summer of 1789 and led to their widespread destruction of manor houses and archives  
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Jacobins   show
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show The creation under the Jacobins, of a citizen army with support from young and old, heralding the emergence of modern warfare  
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Napoleon Bonaparte   show
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Night of August 4, 1789   show
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Parlement   show
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Peninsular War   show
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show (1758-1794) Jacobin leader during the Reign of Terror (1793-1794)  
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show A reference to Parisian workers who wore loose-fitting trousers rather than the tight fitting breeches worn by aristocratic men  
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show A direct tax from which most french nobles were exempt  
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show Declaration mainly by members of the Third Estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France(June 20, 1789)  
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Treaty of Tilsit   show
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