~Homework~ Jessica Yowell b#7 11/27/12
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- 6. Also called: Bloodless Revolution the events of 1688--89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
- 7. 564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer
- 8. the statute (1689) granting religious freedom to dissenting Protestants upon meeting certain conditions.
- 9. 1712–86, king of Prussia
- 11. The galleons are best known as the wartime ships of the Spanish Armada
- 12. cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it
- 14. An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
- 17. a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607; restored 1957
- 18. An empress of Russia in the late eighteenth century who encouraged the cultural influences of western Europe in Russia and extended Russian territory toward the Black Sea
- 20. a member of the royal family that ruled in Romania from 1866 to 1947, in Prussia from 1701 to 1918, and in the German Empire from 1871 to 1918
- 21. King William III and Queen Mary II of England, who ruled jointly after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 had expelled Mary's father, King James II. William and Mary were Protestants, and James was a Roman Catholic; since the time of William and Mary, the ruler of England has always upheld Protestantism in England
- 23. struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII
- 24. French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)
- 25. a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- 26. 1661--1700, the last Hapsburg king of Spain: his reign saw the end of Spanish power in Europe
- 28. 1638–1715, king of France 1643–1715
- 29. a return of something to a former, original, normal, or unimpaired condition.
- 30. 1717–80, archduchess of Austria; queen of Hungary and Bohemia 1740–80
- 31. a city in SE Massachusetts: the oldest town in New England, founded by the Pilgrims 1620. 35,913
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- 1. a member of a French royal family that ruled in France 1589–1792, Spain 1700–1931, and Naples 1735–1806, 1815–60
- 2. 1473–1543, Polish astronomer who promulgated the now accepted theory that the earth and the other planets move around the sun
- 3. Great / 1672–1725, czar of Russia 1682–1725
- 4. 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation
- 5. the head of a parliamentary government
- 10. a council advising a president, sovereign, especially the group of ministers or executives responsible for the government of a nation
- 13. a member of the imperial dynasty of Russia that ruled from 1613 to 1917.
- 15. the war between the French and British, each aided by different Indian tribes, that formed part of the North American Seven Years' War
- 16. royal family that ruled England from 1485 to 1603. Its founder was Owen Tudor, of a Welsh family of great antiquity, who was a squire at the court of Henry V
- 17. German astronomer and mathematician who is considered the founder of celestial mechanics
- 19. 1763 / a treaty signed in 1783 by the United States and Great Britain that ended the american revolution
- 22. 1599-1658. Rose from relatively humble origins to become the most successful military and political leader of the Civil Wars
- 27. a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain,