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Age of Revolutions Review

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    World History SOL 6
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  • Which scientist understood the circulation of the blood and heart's function?
    William Harvey
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  • Isaac Newton influenced our understanding of the world, how?
    First to understand gravity
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  • What were the nicknames of the Parliamentaries and Royalists during the English Civil War?
    P = Roundheads; R = Cavaliers
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  • What happened to Charles I at the end of the English Civil War?
    He was beheaded on the charges of treason. 
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  • Describe the heliocentric theory AND who discovered this theory. 
    Sun-centered universe; Nicolaus Copernicus. 
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  • Describe an absolute monarch.
    A king who controls everything of the country.
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  • Why is the Glorious Revolution, 'glorious'?
    No bloodshed to change government
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  • What event started the French Revolution?
    Storming the Bastille
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  • Inalienable rights?
    Life, Liberty, Property
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  • Wollstonecraft influenced what movement in the US during the 1900s?
    Women's Suffrage
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  • Rousseau wanted what form of government?
    Direct Democracy
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  • Which enlightenment thinker defended the absolute monarch?
    Hobbes
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  • How did the American Revolution influence the French Revolution?
    French aide was too grand and proved people could change governments
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  • Which individual fought in both the American and French Revolution?
    Marquis de Lafayette
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  • Where was the capital of Russia moved under Tsar Peter I?
    St. Petersburg
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  • How was Russia changed under Peter the Great?
    Westernized
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