Midterm Review

1. Galileo-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
1. Heliocentricity
2. Kepler- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler
1. Improved telescope
3. Copernicus- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus
1. Earth is not the center of the universe
4. What 3 states/empires bordered the area between France and Russia?  Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Poland (a republic)
5. Poland
1. Was a republic that voted on kings; usually not from Poland
2. Lack of the centralized authority leaves a power vacuum
3. Spread through the nobility all across the kingdom
6. Suleiman the Magnificent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent
1. Leader of the Ottoman Empire
7. Hapsburg's seat was in Spain, and their power was in Austria
1. Power over Austria because they were Catholic
8. Charles VI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
1. *Pragmatic sanction* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Sanction_of_1713
9. Prussia
1. Part of the Holy Roman Empire
10. Absolutism in Prussia
1. Hohenzollern Family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenzollern
2. Brandenburg
3. Junkers
4. Estates
5. TOO MANY FREAKING FREDERICKS!!!!!!!!!!!
11. Russia
1. Ivan the Terrible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_terrible
2. Romanov Family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanov
3. Peter the Great http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great
12. Explorers
1. Prince Henry the Navigator 
2. Bartholomew Diaz
1. Portuguese; tip of Africa
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