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World History Study Guide from 1648 (view source)
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|[[Bastille Day]]
|[[Bastille Day]]
|(July 14, 1789) The day when French peasants invaded the huge Bastille prison in Paris, freeing political prisoners. This started the Great Fear, when riots broke out ever day, with peasants burning wealthy homes.
|(July 14, 1789) The day when French peasants invaded the huge Bastille prison in Paris, freeing political prisoners. This started the Great Fear, when riots broke out ever day, with peasants burning wealthy homes.
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|[[Big Bang]]
|The theory that developed in the early 20th century that the universe was created by an explosion.
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|[[caravel]]
|[[caravel]]
|[[Emiliano Zapata]]
|[[Emiliano Zapata]]
|Cowboy who helped lead the Mexican Revolution.
|Cowboy who helped lead the Mexican Revolution.
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|[[Expressionism]]
|Style of art that arose in the 20th century that used distorted forms and bold colors to create art.
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|[[Forbidden City]]
|[[Forbidden City]]
|Imperial palace located in Beijing, China, which was used for twenty-four emperors during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
|Imperial palace located in Beijing, China, which was used for twenty-four emperors during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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|[[Franz Kafka]]
|Author and attorney with a troubled life that wrote several classics stories, including the short story The Metamorphosis (1915).
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|[[Glorious Revolution]]
|[[Glorious Revolution]]
|1575: after complaints about the encomiendas by a Spanish monk named Bartholomew de Las Casas, a new Spanish system of repartimientos replaced it by supposedly limiting the amount of labor and requiring payment to the workers, and also requiring an application for approval by the king
|1575: after complaints about the encomiendas by a Spanish monk named Bartholomew de Las Casas, a new Spanish system of repartimientos replaced it by supposedly limiting the amount of labor and requiring payment to the workers, and also requiring an application for approval by the king
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|John Cabot
|[[Rasputin]]
|Peasant-turned-monk that was the only person who could heal Czar Nicholas II's son from his hemophilia.
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|[[John Cabot]]
|1497-1498: a British explorer (who had been born in Genoa, Italy, like Columbus) who discovered Newfoundland and the New England coast, so that land became the property of England
|1497-1498: a British explorer (who had been born in Genoa, Italy, like Columbus) who discovered Newfoundland and the New England coast, so that land became the property of England
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|The Federalist Papers
|The Federalist Papers
|(1788) Brilliant essays encouraging ratification of the U.S. Constitution, written mostly by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
|(1788) Brilliant essays encouraging ratification of the U.S. Constitution, written mostly by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
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|[[Gandhi]]
|Spiritual leader who set out to win independence for India through peaceful civil disobedience.
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|Immanuel Kant
|Immanuel Kant