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140 Cards in this Set
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Renaissance
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1450
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Princes in Germany consolidate power
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1450
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Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople (53)
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1450
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End of Hundred Years’ War
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1450
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Printing and movable type
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1450
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Botticelli
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1450
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Leonardo da Vinci
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1450
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Ferdinand and Isabella complete reconquista in Spain
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1492
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Christopher Columbus reaches Americas
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1492
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Portuguese gain control of East India spice trade
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1492
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Michelangelo
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1492
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Raphael
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1492
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Rabelais
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1492
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95 Theses posted by Martin Luther (Beginning of Protestant Ref.)
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1517
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Magellan circumnavigates earth (13)
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1517
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Peasant’s Revolt in Germany (24)
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1517
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Concordat of Bologna (16)
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1517
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Loyola’s Society of Jesus
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1517
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Council of Trent (45)
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1517
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Copernicus (43)
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1517
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Machiavelli’s The Prince
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1517
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More’s Utopia
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1517
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Calvin’s Theocracy in Geneva
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1517
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Merici’s Ursuline order (40s)
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1517
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Peace of Augsburg
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1555
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Philip II of Spain (56)
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1555
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Galileo (64)
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1555
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Cervantes
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1555
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Baroque movement in the arts
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1555
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Shakespeare (64)
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1555
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Harvey (78)
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1555
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Defeat of Spanish Armada
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1588
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Henry IV’s Edict of Nantes (98)
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1588
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“Times of Troubles” in Russia (98)
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1588
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Descartes (96)
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1588
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Hobbes
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1588
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Rubens
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1588
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Montaigne (98)
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1588
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Peace of Westphalia
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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Fronde in France
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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Height of Dutch commercial activity (30-65)
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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English Civil War (42-49)
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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Louis XIV in France (43)
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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Decline of serfdom in Western Europe
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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Boyle (27)
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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Huguenot revolt in France (25)
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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Vermeer
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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Racine
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1648 (1600 - 1650)
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Glorious Revolution
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1688
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Peter the Great in Russia (89)
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1688
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Colbert’s economic reforms in France (63)
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1688
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Test Act in England (73)
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1688
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Revocation of Edict of Nantes (85)
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1688
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Montesquieu
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1688
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Locke
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1688
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Newton (87)
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1688
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the Enlightenment (90-1790)
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1688
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Bach
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1688
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Fontenelle
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1688
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Peace of Utrecht
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1713
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Frederick William I of Prussia
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1713
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Louis XV of France (15)
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1713
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Wesley
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1713
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Hume
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1713
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Diderot
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1713
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Seven Years’ War ends (Treaty of Paris
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Catherine the Great of Russia (62)
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Ricardo
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Fourier (72)
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Spinning jenny
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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water frame (65)
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Encyclopedia, edited by Diderot and d’Alembert (51)
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Mozart
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Rousseau
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Beethoven
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Wordsworth
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1763 Industrial Revolution (c1750)
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Beginning of French Revolution
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1789
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Malthus Essay of the Principle of Population (98)
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1789
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Watt’s steam engine (80s)
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1789
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Reorganization of church in France (90s)
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1789
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Smallpox vaccine (96)
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1789
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Romanticism
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1789
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Wollstonecraft (92)
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1789
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Napoleonic era ends
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1815
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Congress of Vienna
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1815
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European economic imperialism (16)
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1815
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Revolutions in Europe
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1848
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Chartists, repeal of Corn Laws
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1848
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French utopian socialism (30s-40s)
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1848
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Zollverein founded (34)
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1848
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Great Famine in Ireland (45-51)
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1848
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Marx
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1848
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Nietzsche
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1848
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Sorel
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1848
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List
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1848
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Comte
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1848
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Third Republic in France
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1870
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Franco-Prussian war
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1870
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Unification of Germany, Italy
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1870
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Russian serfs emancipated (61)
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1870
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Pope Pius IX Syllabus of Errors
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1870
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Suez canal opened (69)
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1870
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Realism/Impressionism
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1870
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Tolstoy (69)
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1870
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Russo-Japanese war (04)
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1900
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Revolution in Russia (05)
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1900
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Women’s suffrage movement England
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1900
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Separation of church and state in France (01)
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1900
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Einstein
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1900
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first airplane
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1900
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Cubism
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1900
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modernism
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1900
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Proust and Conrad
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1900
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WWI
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1914
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planned economics
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1914
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Easter Rebellion (16)
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1914
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Treaty of Versailles
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1914
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Spengler
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1914
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End of WWII
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1945
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United Nations
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1945
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Cold war begins (47)
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1945
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Communist gov’t. in China (49)
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1945
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Marshall Plan (47)
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1945
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De Beauvoir (49)
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1945
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De-Stalinization of Russia
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1956
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European Economic Community (57)
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1956
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Berlin Wall goes up (61)
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1956
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Student Rebellion in France
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1968
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Soviet tanks end Prague Spring
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1968
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Détente (70s)
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1968
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Civil rights movement in US (60s)
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1968
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OPEC oil price increases (73, 79)
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1968
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Stagflation
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1968
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Women’s movement (70s)
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1968
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Unification of Germany
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1989
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Revolutions in Eastern Europe
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1989
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End of Soviet Union (91)
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1989
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Economic crisis in Poland (88)
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1989
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Maastricht Treaty (90)
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1989
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Computer revolution
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1989
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