Advanced Placement European History Unit 5 – Absolutism and State-building in the 17th Century Identifications People places events ideas institutions arts Social Phenomena Witches and witchcraft- witchcraft affected many lives of Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Witchcraft was thought to be connected with the devil therefore making witchcraft heresy. Witch trials- More than 100‚000 people were prosecuted throughout Europe for witchcraft during the sixteenth
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religion was ever a cause of the war hard to make however‚ religion can not be dismissed. Initial start of the war was through Catholic king Ferdinand and his religious intolerance‚ Protestant revolted. The Protestant leader was the Fredrick V of Prussia‚ a very powerful state for its size (figure 2 shows how diverse Europe had become religiously). This hatred fire would spread throughout Europe by way of the Holy Roman Empire. Holy Roman Empire is a group of states loosely held together by a weak
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Inbuilt conflicts of power Emperor and Parliament Monarch head of civil service‚ military Monarch head of civil service‚ military Prussia 60% of population and 2/3 of its territories. 235 deputies in 397 seat Reichstag Prussian aristocracy dominant Position Old Prussia diluted and more non-Prussians got important posts Some Prussians accused Bismarck of Weakening Prussia Bismarck’s Position: Prussian Prime minister and Foreign Minister‚ and Reich Chancellor. Dominated the Bundesrat after 1871 Personal
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Abstract Napoleon Bonaparte is generally regarded as one of history’s top military tacticians. But 200 years ago ‚ he committed a grave error by leading his Grande Armée—possibly the largest European armed force ever built to that point—across the Niemen River into Russia. Without losing a single battle there‚ the Grande Armée was almost completely wiped out within six months by freezing temperatures‚ food shortages‚ disease and Russian assaults. This proved to be the beginning of the end for
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NATIONAL CENTER FOR CASE STUDY TEACHING IN SCIENCE Hemophilia: “The Royal Disease” by Yelena Aronova-Tiuntseva and Clyde Freeman Herreid University at Buffalo State University of New York Hemophilia is an X-linked recessive disorder characterized by the inability to properly form blood clots. Until recently‚ hemophilia was untreatable‚ and only a few hemophiliacs survived to reproductive age because any small cut or internal hemorrhaging after even a minor bruise were fatal. Now hemophilia
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Rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Casa Buonaparte in the town of Ajaccio‚ on the island Corsica‚ on 15 august 1769. At the time of Napoleon’s birth the island Corsica was taken over by the French Republic. Napoleon’s family was an upper class nobility family. His father Carlo Buonaparte‚ an attorney‚ was a representative of Corsica to the court of Louis XVI. His mother Letizia Ramolino was the one‚ who made the dominant influence on the child. Napoleon went to
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History Worksheet Since the beginning of his narration‚ we get a gloomy atmosphere which represents Dickens discontent. “volumes of dense smoke‚ blackening and obscuring everything” here he speaks of the terrible pollution that has infiltrated the town‚ blocking the view of everything. Afterwards‚ the quote “...ponderous wagons...laden with crushing iron rods…” appears‚ signifying the abuse that is done to the working class‚ forcing them to carry hefty objects and work heavy machinery for someone
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Mr. Dunbar AP European History Chapter 17—The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth Century Thought Chapter Overview: The Enlightenment is a movement of people and ideas that fostered the expansion of literate sectors of European society and that economic improvement and political reform were both possible and desirable. Contemporary western political and economic thought is a product of Enlightenment thinking; therefore‚ some historians believe the process of Enlightenment continues today. Inspired
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Karl Marx was born in 1818 in the ancient city of Trier‚ in western Germany (then Prussia). Marx’s father was a prosperous lawyer‚ a Jew who converted to Lutheranism to advance his career at a time when unbaptized Jews did not have full rights of citizenship. Marx studied law at the University of Bonn and later at Berlin‚ where he switched to studying philosophy. He moved again to the University of Jena‚ where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on ancient Greek natural philosophy. Following the death
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America. Most major European powers were involved‚ “in particular Prussia‚ Great Britain‚ and Hanover on one side and Austria‚ Saxony‚ France‚ Russia‚ Sweden‚ and Spain” (Seven Years’ War‚ 2017.) The Seven Years War‚ colloquially to America‚ the French and Indian War‚ involved allied British and American colonies against
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