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pp.17-20

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Discovered the electrical nature of lightening   Franklin   Used the kite/key experiment   Franklin   French scholar who compiled the first modern encyclopedia   Diderot  
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Wrote "Eligy Written in a Country Churchyard"   Gray   Adopted the Gregorian calendar   Britain and British Colonies   Began in Europe between France, Russia and Poland Saxony   Seven Years War  
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Began between Great Britain and Prussia   French & Indian War   Defeated at Fort Duquesne by French forces and killed   Braddock   Where Braddock was defeated by French forces   Fort Duquesne  
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Led retreat from Fort Duquesne   Washington   Published a dictionary of the english language   Johnson   Johnson's career   Lexicographer  
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Wrote the biography "The life of Johnson"   Boswell   Created a massive tidal wave that flooded the Tagus River   Major earthquake   Site of a major earthquake   Lisbon  
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Flooded by a massive tidal wave   Tagus River   This incident occurred as the nawab of bengal takes Calcutta   The black hole of Calcutta   Forced 146 British subjects into an 18 x 14 foot room   The Nawab of Bengal  
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Number of 146 remained alive   23   Invented the sextant   Campbell   Created by extending the arc of the quadrant   sextant  
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Developed the arc of the quadrant in 1731   Hadley   Breaks French authority in India at the Battle of Plassey and later serves as 1st British Bengalian governor   Clive   Fell to the British   French Canada  
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Defeated by Wolf on the Plains of Abraham at Quebec   Montcalm   Defeated Montcalm in Quebec   Wolfe   German born English composer died leaving behind "The Water Music" "The Messiah" "Music for the Royal Fireworks"   Handel  
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Born Francois Marie Arouet   Voltaire   Published his landmark satire "Candid"   Voltaire   Despite evidence of horrer and degradation still claims "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"   Pangloss  
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Ruled for 60 years   George III   Succeeded by George III   George II   Published his landmark treatises "The Social Contract" & "Emile"   Rousseau  
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"man is born free and everywhere he is in chains"   The Social Contract   About education   Emile   End of the Seven Years Wars   Treaty of Paris  
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Invested in the spinning jenny   Hargreaves   Invented the steam engine   Watt   Began his around the world voyage aboard the Endeavor   Cook  
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Traveled to the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Killed in 1779 by natives at Kealakekua Bay, HI   Cook   Developed the water frame   Arcwright   Uses water power for spinning   water frame  
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Led Spanish Franciscans to begin building missions on the CA coast beginning in San Diego   Serra   First partitioned   Poland   Occurred in response to the Tea Act   Boston Tea Party  
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Passed by Parliament on May 10th   Tea Act   Lightened duties on imported tea to England but kept full duties on tea to the colonies   Tea Act   Died after a reign of 59 years   Louis XV  
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Succeeded by his grandson   Louis XV   Reigned until 1792 with wife, Marie Antionette   Louis XVI   Discovered oxygen   Priestley  
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Called "dephlogisticated air"   oxygen   Discovered chlorine and mangenese, later discoverd citric acid in plants   Scheele   Swedish chemist   Scheele  
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Settled near Albany NY   Lee   Fostered the creation of the Shaker secret of Quakerism "known as Shakers"   Lee   Began at Lexington, Concord, Ticonderoga and Bunker Hill   The American Revolution  
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Wrote "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"   Smith   Supported laissez-faire economics and proposes the theory of the invisible hand   Smith in the Wealth of Nations   Began his "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"   Gibbon  
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Discovered by Herschel as the first plant discovered in the Heavens since ancient times   Uranus   Discovered Uranus   Herschel   Wrote "Critique of Pure Reason" which examined the bounds of human understanding   Kant  
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Russian Czarina who annexed the Crimea after victory over the Ottoman Turks by Gregori Potemkin (annexation approved by the Treaty of Constantinople of 1784)   Catherine the Great   Made history by ascending in a hot air balloon first at Lyons, then over Paris   The Montgolfiers   Became the first to scale Europe's highest mountain, Mount Blanc   Balmart & Paccard  
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Europe's highest mountain   Mount Blanc   Began to cull prisoners out of their prisons and send them via sea to Botany Bay, Australia where they arrived in 1788   Great Britain   French chemist who developed Charles Law (aka Gay-Lussac's Law)   Charles  
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States that for every degree celsius rise in temperature a gas expands proportional to its volume at 0 C   Charles Law   English portrait painter died leaving "The Blue Boy" "Mr. & Mrs. Andrews" "Miss Richard Brinsley Sheridan"   Gainsborough   Stormed the Bastille   French mob  
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Stormed on July 14, when all 7 prisoners were freed   Bastille   Adopted Declaration of the Rights of Man   French Assembly   Wrote the first modern chemistry text "Elements of Chemistry" guillotined during the upcoming French reign of terror   Lavoisier  
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Led the mutiny aboard the bounty   Christian   Mutiny onboard led by Fletcher Christian   Bounty   Mutinied upon   Captain Bligh  
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The number of people set adrift after the mutiny on the Bounty   18   The 18 were set adrift in this ocean   Pacific   Where the mutineers returned to   Tahiti  
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What the mutineers returned for   Native Brides   Where did they establish a colony   Picairn Island   Wrote "Mutiny on the Bounty"   Nordoff and Hall  
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Began he Industrial Revolution in the US   Slater   This began after Slater opened the first textile factory/cotton mill   Industrial Revolution   Where the first textile factory was opened   Rhode Island  
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The first textile factory was based on designes by these two   Arkwright and Hargreaves   The first American to circumnavigate the globe   Gray   Completed by Lanhans   Brandenburgh Gate  
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Died at Salzburg after composing"The Marriage of Figaro" ,"Symphony #41 (Jupiter Symphony) ,"Don Giovanni" ,"The Magic Flute"   Mozart   "The Marriage of Figaro" is based on a play by this man   Beaumarchais   Composed "La Marseillaise"   de Lisle  
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French Anthem   "La Marseillaise"   Overthrown, afterwhich a republic was established   Louis XVI   Guillotined in January   Louis XVI  
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Guillotined in October   Marie Antoinette   Given unlimited power   French Committee of Public Safety   Headed the French Committee of Public Safety   Maximilien and Robespierre ,later also Marat  
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Murdered in his bath   Marat   One of the most famous paintings of David   Death of Marat   Murdered Marat   Corday  
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Invented semaphore   Chappe   Flag communication system   Semaphore   Opened to the public as an art museum for the first time   Louvre Palace  
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Took control of France by Guillotining Danton   Robespierre   Later Guillotined themselves   Robespierre and St. Just   Haitian slaves under him rebel   L'Overture  
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First leader of independant Haiti   Christophe   The first 2 countries in the western hemisphere to declare independance from Europe   USA(1) Haiti(2)   Set in place in France   The Directory  
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Led French Forces to victory over the Austrians at Millesimo and the Piedmonts at Modovi   Bonaparte   Has Savoy and Nice ceded to France   Bonaparte   Conquered Lombardy adn gained tribute from teh Pope and the King of Naples   Bonaparte  
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died of apoplexy   Catherine the Great   succeeded by unstable son   Catherine the Great   ruled Russia until 1801   Paul I  
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became the first European to reach the West African interior when he reached the Niger River   Park   Scottish adventurer   Park   created a vaccine against smallpox   Jenner  
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inoculated schoolboy James Phipps in 1798   Jenner   published "Inquiry into the Cause and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae"   Jenner   known for poems "To a Mouse" "My Luv is like a Red, Red Rose" "Auld Lang Syne"   Burns  
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Scottish Poet   Burns   Basis for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"   "To a Mouse"   fell to Napoleon after the Battle of the Pyramids   Cairo  
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destroyed the French fleet at Abukir Bay near Alexandria   Nelson   Battle that destroyed the French Fleet in Egypt   Battle of the Nile   combined to publish "Lyrical Ballads"   Wordsworth & Coleridge  
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ushered in the Romantic Age of LIterature in Britain   Lyrical Ballads   Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Alley and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner were featured   Lyrical Ballads   published "Essay on teh Principles of Population"   Malthus  
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stated that population increases geometrically but food production increases arithmetically   "Essay on the Principles of Population"   found the Rosetta Stone   Napoleon's troops   rock with inscriptions in ancient Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphics   Rosetta Stone  
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Received Louisiana in the 1763 Treaty of Paris   Spain   explored teh Orinoco River   von Humboldt   established a water link between the Orinoco and the Amazon   von Humboldt  
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pioneered teh electric storage battery   Volta   discovered infrared rays   Herschel   defeated the Danish fleet in the Battle of Copenhagen   Parker  
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pretended not to see Parker's signal to retreat   Nelson   Napoleon's brother-in-law   Leclerc   sent by Napoleon to put down an insurrection in Haiti   Leclerc  
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Captured in the Haiti insurrection   L'Ouverture   dies in a French prison   L'Ouverture   opens in London with wax figures of notable and notorious historical figures   Madame Tussaud's wax museum  
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sold the Louisiana territory to the US   Napoleon   postulates his law of partial pressures   Dalton   seventh earl of Elgin   Bruce  
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friezes from teh Parthenon in Athens sent to the British Museum   Elgin Marbles   poem written about the portions of the Parthenon sent to the British Museum   "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles"   wrote "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles"   Keats  
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second independent republic in the New World   Haiti   defeats the 5000 man force sent by Napoleon   Haiti   crowns himself Emperor in front of Pope Pius VII   Napoleon  
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dies aboard his ship Victory in defeating the French Fleet at Trafalgar   Nelson   told his men "England expects every man to do his duty"   Nelson   has a great victory at Austerlitz   Napoleon  
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who Napoleon fought at Austerlitz   Russians and Austrians   developed the Beaufort Scale   Beaufort   what the Beaufort Scale Measured   Wind speed  
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wrote "Fidelio" "Kreutzer Sonata" 3rd Symphony "Eroica"   Beethoven   Originally dedicated to Napoleon but the dedication is now struck   Eroica   Beethoven's Sixth Symphony   Pastoral  
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Napoleon's older brother   Joseph   Napoleon's younger brother   Louis   Napoleon's brother on the thone in Naples   Joseph  
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Napoleon's brother on teh thone in Holland   Louis   gave sodium and potassium their names   Davy   isolated barium, boron, calcium and strontium   Davy  
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dies, leaving behind such works as "The Surprise Symphony" "The London Symphony" "The Creation Oratorio"   Haydn   Austrian Composer   Haydn   Divorced Josephine because he had no heir   Napoleon  
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Marries Austrian Archduchess maria Luisa in a marriage arranged by Austria's foreign Minister   Napoleon   Creole who led Mexican rebels against Spanish dominion   Hildago   rebels were crushed by Spanish forces and he was executed   Hildago  
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Commemorates Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz   Column in the Place Vendome in Paris   Finished in 1836 it is commemorating Napoleon   Arc de Triomphe   creates his hypothesis that equal volumes of all gases at teh same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules   Avagadro  
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publises "Sense and Sensibility   Austen   wrote "Pride and Prejudice" "Northanger Abbey" and "Emma"   Austen   invaded Russia   Napoleon  
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meets Kutusov at Borodino who retreated, citizens flee and burn everything so he can't get it.   Napoleon   He lost most of his army in a disasterous retreat from Russia   Napoleon   declared ware on Great Britain   US  
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also known as the Battle of the Nations   Battle of Leipzig   ends in defeat for Napoleon   Battle of Leipzig   takes Caracas and becomes virtual dictator in Venezuela   Bolivar  
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builds the first successful steam locomotive   Stephenson   abdicates and is awarded sovereignty of Elba in the Mediterranean   Napoleon   restored to France's throne   Louis XVIII  
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escaped from Elba for 100 days   Napoleon   defeated at Waterloo   Napoleon   defeated Napoleon at Waterloo   Wellesley & von Blucher  
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Wellesley is also known as   Duke of Wellington   where Napoleon is exiled to   St. Helena where he dies   meets to decide post-Napoleonic Europe   The Congress of Vienna  
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represents the Austrians at the Congress of Vienna   Metternich   represents the British at the Congress of Vienna   Castlereagh   represents the French at the Congress of Vienna   Talleyrand  
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represents the Russians at the Congress of Vienna   Alexander I   invents method of paving roads   MacAdam   (blank)   (blank)  
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