Identify Their Century
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38 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 15th | The Renaissance |
| 15th | the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks |
| 15th | The Voyages of Portuguese Explorers and Columbus |
| 15th Contemporaries | Leonardo DaVinci. Sulieman the Magnificent, Gutenberg, Henry the Navigator |
| 16th | The Reformation and Catholic and Counter-Reformations |
| 16th | The Age of Exploration |
| 16th | the growth of national monarchies |
| 16th Contemporaries | Luther, Henry VIII, Loyola, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Copernicus, Elizabeth I, Phillip II |
| 17th | The Age of Colonization |
| 17th | Commercial Revolution and rise of Capitalism |
| 17th | rise of modern science |
| 17th | Thirty years war |
| 17th | Age of Absolutism and rise of Constitutionalism |
| 17th Contemporaries | Descartes, Galileo, Newton, the Stuart Kings, Cromwell, Grotius, Locke, Mazarin, the Romanovs, Louis XIV |
| 18th | The Growth of Capitalism |
| 18th | Age of Enlightenment and of Reason |
| 18th | age of Benevolent Despotism and of Revolutions |
| 18th Contemporaries | Adam Smith, Voltaire, Rousseau, Frederick the Great, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Theresa, Catherine the Great, Louis XVI, George III, Robespierre, George Washington |
| 19th | The Age of Napoleon |
| 19th | The Age of Metternich |
| 19th | Age of Romanticism |
| 19th | Age of Nationalism and Unification |
| 19th | Age of ISM's |
| 19th | Age of Imperialism |
| 19th | Age of Progress |
| 19th Contemporaries | Talleyrand, Metternich, Wordsworth, Goethe, Bismarck, Cavour, Marx, Darwin, Cecil Rhodes, Teddy Roosevelt, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur |
| 19th | Chartism |
| 19th | Women's Suffrage |
| 20th | The Age of Violence |
| 20th | Age of Technology |
| 20th | Nuclear Age |
| 20th | Age of Information |
| 20th | Age of Anxiety |
| 20th | Age of Totalitarianism |
| 20th | Cold War |
| 20th | European Union |
| 20th | Age of Democracy |
| 20th Contemporaries | Kaiser Wilhem, Clemenceau, Lenin, Wilson, Stalin, Hitler, Ghandi, Churchill, Freud, Einstein, Franklin Roosevelt, Hirohito, Mao, Adenauer, De Gaulle, Thatcher, Gorbacher, Reagan, Yeltsin, Walesa, Havel |
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