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chapter 23: The Transformation of Europe

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8288833867Martin LutherGerman theologian who led the Reformation0
8288833868Henry VIIIson of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 15471
8288833869Council of Trentthe meeting called by Pope Paul III that secured reconciliation with the Protestants2
8288833870Thirty Years' Warconflict over religion, territory, and power among European ruling families3
8288833871Protestanta member of a Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation4
8288833872Siege of Vienna(1683) Ottoman Empire attemped to invade Vienna but they were stopped by Leopold I5
8288833873Glorious Revolutionthe revolution against James II (1688)6
8288833874Peter I (the Great)change economy and culture through western European models7
8288833875St. Petersburgcapital city and major port that Peter the Great established in 17038
8288833876balance of powercondition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries9
8288833877Ninety-Five Thesesa critique of the Catholic doctrine of indulgences and papal authority produced by Martin Luther10
8288833878missionaryan individual who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others11
8288833879Society of Jesusa Roman Catholic order of religious men founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola12
8288833880Treaty of Westphalia1648, ended the 30 Year War and created the state system13
8288833881Charles VHoly Roman Emperor and Charles I of Spain, tried to keep Europe religiously united14
8288833882Spanish Inquisitiona program ordered by the Spanish monarchy to investigate and eliminate heresy in the kingdom15
8288833883Louis XIVking of France from 1643 to 171516
8288833884Versaillespalace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility17
8288833885Catherine IIenlightened despot who drafted Russian constitution but never put it into practice18
8288833886capitalisman economic system based on private ownership of capital19
8288833887Adam Smithseen as the Father of Capitalism. Published The Wealth of Nations in 177620
8288833888VOC1602 joint-stock company; chartered to control Dutch trading and to achieve a monopoly between the cape of good hope and the Magellan strait21
8288833889ptolemaic universeearth is the center of the universe22
8288833890joint-stock companiesbusinesses in which a group of people invest together23
8288833891NewtonEnglish mathematician and physicist; SI unit of force24
8288833892John LockeEnglish philosopher who argued that people have natural rights25
8288833893putting-out systemsystem that involved gaining control of raw materials for goods; reorganized production26
8288833894Copernican UniverseCopernicus' suggestion in 1543 that the sun, rather than the earth, was the center of the universe27
8288833895deismthe belief that god created the world and then left it to its own devices28

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