4293587062 | Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince that lead navigations, never went farther than north africa | 0 | |
4293587063 | Bartholomue Dias | Leader of Portuguese voyages, S tip of africa | 1 | |
4293587064 | Vasco de gama | Portuguese sailer, went around africa and india | 2 | |
4293587065 | Christopher columbus | Sponsored by spanish in his voyage, "discovered" caribbean and then went to north america | 3 | |
4293587066 | Pedro Alaverez | Spanish voyager who discovered brazil | 4 | |
4293587067 | Balboa | Spanish voyager who crossed isthmus of panama | 5 | |
4293587068 | Magellan | Spanish voyager who sailed across americas and up | 6 | |
4293587069 | Arawaks | Native group Encountered by Columbus, eventually all died out from "being slaves" | 7 | |
4293587070 | Christopher de Gama | Vasco de gamas son who went to ethiopia and was captured and tortured to death | 8 | |
4293587071 | Hernan cortes | Ruthless nobleman from cuba | 9 | |
4293587072 | Pope leo x | Started indulgence technique | 10 | |
4293587073 | Martin luther | Started lutheranism, protestant reformation | 11 | |
4293587074 | John calvin and predestination | Created calvinism | 12 | |
4293587075 | Ignatius loyola | Created jesuits (society of jesus) | 13 | |
4293587076 | Charles V | Unsuccessful leader in uniting christian Europe bc his efforts were resisted by king francis and other religious leaders | 14 | |
4293587077 | King charles | Monarch of great Britain didnt summon parliament for 11 years, didnt like new parliament rules, but he was good and obeyed, | 15 | |
4293587078 | Louis xiv | French king who had many wars and large palace | 16 | |
4293587079 | Oliver cromwell | England general who expanded englands overseas powerih | 17 | |
4293587080 | Peter the great | Russian ruler, modernized armies in defeat of Sweden in great northern war | 18 | |
4293587081 | King Phillip II | Spanish ruler who imposed high tax on Spain when enforced catholic orthodoxy, this led to Netherlands independence from Spain | 19 | |
4293587082 | William the Conquerer | King in england, strong leader, got norman army and went and conquered england bc wanted to be king | 20 | |
4293587083 | Henry the 8th | British ruler; wanted a son, had many wives, | 21 | |
4293587084 | Bourgeoisie | Rich people/lifestyle | 22 | |
4411346575 | Mesitizos | Half spanish half natives | 23 | |
4411346576 | Pensilars | White guys/people | 24 | |
4411346577 | Creoles | American born spanish | 25 | |
4411346578 | Mulattoes | Half spanish half african | 26 | |
4411346579 | Conquistadores | Who came from spain and just took over(conquered) | 27 | |
4411346580 | Copernicus | Philosopher, heliocentric theory, ideas were supressed | 28 | |
4411346581 | Brane and kepler | Philosophers planets move in elliptical way | 29 | |
4411346582 | Galileo | Philosopher, planets r not perfect spheres, ideas were supressed | 30 | |
4411346583 | Newton | Philosopher GRAVITY | 31 | |
4411346584 | Edward jenner | Scientist, created vaccine against smallpox | 32 | |
4411346585 | John Locke | Believed in social contract and absolute power was incompatible | 33 | |
4411346586 | Voltaire | Man act as pleased | 34 | |
4411346587 | Bartolomeu de las casas | Priest, most influential defender of amerindians in early colonial period | 35 | |
4411346588 | Castas | Mixed descent group | 36 | |
4411346589 | African catholics | Basically slaves | 37 | |
4411346590 | Puritans | Wished to purify church of england NOT BREAK with IT | 38 | |
4411346591 | Pilgrims | Catholic | 39 | |
4411346592 | Coureur de bois | In canada, young frenchman sent to live with native americans to see culture (bc of fur trade) | 40 | |
4411346593 | Tupac amaru II | Initiator of rebellion in 1780 against spanish in peru | 41 |
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