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What was NOT listed as one of Galileo’s astronomical discoveries in his Starry Messenger:

Why or how is the Enlightenment considered a turning point in world history:

Before the Age of Discovery, ____________________ middle men provided Western Europe with ________________ goods like silks and spices to the Western Europeans:

This “Sun King” was able to make his country the most powerful European nation-state for most of the 1600s and the early 1700s. Name the Sun king and the country he represented: 

Louis XIV was easily the most significant monarch of the late 1600s and early 1700s and the most important European leader since Charlemagne (800s). Why:

TRUE or FALSE: One of Philip II’s (of Spain) major goals was the use colonial wealth to boost the power of the Roman catholic Church against all who would challenge the church.

According to your textbook, what practice did the philosophes believe was mankind’s greatest offense against reason:

When the Dutch began to rebel against the Spanish King Philip II, _______________________________ was a military general who Philip II sent to reestablish stability. After his arrival, though, violence steadily increased until a full-scale revolution broke out: 

TRUE or FALSE: Major reasons France lost so much power during the reign of Louis XIV were a series of international wars and huge government expenditures on Versailles Palace: 

The main reason King Philip II of Spain ordered an attack upon his possession called the Netherlands in the mid 1550s was: