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She claimed the throne at 18 but was disliked by Protestants because she was Catholic. She eventually escaped to England but her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, had her beheaded.
Who is Mary Queen of Scots?
Moghul Emperors in this country included World Seizer, King of the World, and Conqueror of the World.
Where is India?
This group of people was led by William Bradford and established the Massachusetts Bay where they could worship freely. They held the first Thanksgiving.
Who were the Puritans/Pilgrims/Separatists?
Prince Frederick crowned himself king over this area outside of the Holy Roman Empire. He founded an Academy of Arts and a Royal Academy of Sciences.
Where is Prussia?
Four-fifths of this city was burnt from an accident that started in a bakery.
What is the London Fire?
He attached Sweden because he wanted to own the shores of the Baltic Sea so he could have a port and trade. He finally won when Sweden's army froze in Russia's winter. He also built factories and mines to make Russia strong and built St. Petersburg, his capital.
Who was Peter the Great?
He was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648.
Who was William the Silent?
The Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and explorers who carried out the conquests and explorations of the Age of Discovery
Who were the conquistadors?
The Manchu from the north removed the Ming Emperor from power in this country and ruled for the next 250 years.
What is China?
This event began because the king of Germany, Ferdinand II, tried to remove Protestantism in Germany. The German princes who were Protestants wanted to make the decisions about what religions would be followed in their own lands, so they fought back.
What was the Thirty Years War?
This Indian emperor made three poor decisions by focusing too heavily on making the country Muslim and conquering the south of India while ignoring the English merchants who built a city.
Who is Aurangzeb?
Who was Nzinga?
He discovered the law of gravity.
Who is Issac Newton?
Louis XIV built this extravagant palace, forcing nobleman to live there.
Where is Versailles?
The signing of this treaty brought an end to the Thirty Years War.
What was the Treaty of Westphalia?
He was the King of Scotland and England, the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots
Who was King James VI of England or King James I of Scotland
He was a shogun who moved the capital city to Tokyo and took away swords from the samurai and encouraged them to read, study, and wrestle.
Who was Ieyasu?
This explorer tried to sail up to the North Pole, around Russia and China, and lastly to North America. He got trapped in a bay in Canada that was later named after him.
Who was Henry Hudson?
This colony grew in size because they grew and sold tobacco to England. They relied heavily on the enslaved to farm plantations.
Where is Jamestown?
This war was between the colonists and the Wampanoag Native Americans in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is King Philip's War?
This ruler was first a merchant and general. He wanted to make Japan larger, so he tried to invade China by going through Korea. He did not succeed and died shortly after.
Who was Hideyoshi?
When the Safavids ruled over Persia, this greatest Shah defeated the Ottoman Turks and made Persia into a great country by building roads, bridges, and a port.
Who is Abbas the Great or Abbas I?
Who was John Locke?
Where is Manhattan Island or New Amsterdam?
When the Indian empire fell apart, the English started to worry that they would be attacked. So they started to build forts to protect themselves. Siraj thought that the English might use the fort at Calcutta to take over Bengal. So he promised the French land in Bengal if they would help him defeat the English. The French and Siraj's army marched to Calcutta and captured it, and put all the English in a tiny dungeon called the --?
What is The Black Hole of Calcutta?