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What ended the 30 years' war?
The Peace of Westphalia
Mozart showed signs of being a musical genius at a young age. He even started composing at the young age of ________________!
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Was never married because she was married to her country/people.
Queen Elizabeth I
He set sail and went west (left on the map) hoping to go all the way around the world and reach India from the other side.
Christopher Columbus
He was King of Sweden. He was regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in modern history.
Gustavos Adolphus
Queen Elizabeth came in contact with this illness and survived...
Smallpox
Who did Mozart tour and play music with?
His sister
_____________________ is renowned as the astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the sun at the center rather than the Earth, a revolutionary idea that challenged the prevailing geocentric view
Nicolaus Copernicus
a large group of Protestants who believed that the pope had no right to tell them how to live their lives, together with an army of German Protestants and his own soldiers they created….
The German Fury
served in the British Royal Navy and was a famous for map-making.
James Cook
Who wanted to be the Holy Roman Emperor?
Charles
A lawyer named Francis Scott Key watched the battle from a British ship and saw the American flag still waving above the fort the next morning he.....
wrote a poem called The Defence of Fort M'Henry, which later became the national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner
When __________ became king of the Ottomans, he was only 11 years old. He waited and grew stronger both mentally and physically. He learned all about the history of the empire he was destined to rule one day.
Murad
Samuel Champlain
was sent away after loosing a big battle called “The battle of Waterloo.”
Napoleon
A few rebellious Protestant nobles tossed two royal officials out of a castle window in Prague. This act, known as the ______________ ___ ______.
Defenestration of Prague
The Spanish took ___________________ worth of gold and silver out of South America.
500 BILLION dollars
As a teenage, the king had THREE THRONES! (Netherlands, Spain and Germany)
Charles
is renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to physics, mathematics, and optics, including the formulation of the laws of motion, the law of universal gravitation, and the invention of the reflecting telescope.
Isaac Newton
Lewis and Clark met many Native Americans on their travels. What was the name of the woman they met?
Sacajawea
The United States gained Louisiana from France in 1803. This was during the first term of ____________________ presidency.
Thomas Jefferson
How old was was Louis XIV (14th) when he became the King of France?
Louis was 4 years old when he became king! He had a First Minister to help him reign, but when the First Minister died, he announced that he would rule alone. He ruled for 72 years!
A great king named __________________ came to the throne of France. He conquered the nearby German lands, adding to his own territory. He passed a law to keep his kingdom peaceful.
Charlemagne
were powerful Japanese feudal lords who ruled Japan from the 10th century to the mid-19th century.
Daimyo
was an English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export.
John Rolfe