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Topic
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Core questions
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Core concepts
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The Renaissance
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What is the Renaissance?
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Where did it start and why?
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What are the major changes made during this period in these aspects?
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Ways of thinking
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Art & architecture
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Literature
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Science
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Who are they? What are they famous for?
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Michelangelo
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Leonardo da vinci
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William Shakespeare
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Galileo
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Copernicus
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Martin Luther
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What are the impacts of the Renaissance?
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A general understanding of
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Classical civilization
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Humanism
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Absolutism
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What is absolutism / absolute monarchy?
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When is the age of absolutism?
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Why did people at that time generally accept absolutism?
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The divine right
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Heredity
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Privilege
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The Enlightenment
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What is the Enlightenment?
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What are the political ideas of major Enlightenment thinkers?
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Montesquieu
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Rousseau
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John Locke
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Descartes
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How did/does the Enlightenment influence Europe and the world?
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Enlightenment
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Natural rights
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Equality
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Liberty
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Social contract
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Checks and balance
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Constitution
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Rule of law
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Revolution
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The Enlightenment and the American Revolution
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How did the colonists unite America?
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How did the legislature take part in the structure of the federal government?
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How did the American Revolution happen?
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Why did the people in the Enlightenment object to absolute power?
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Explain one of the British acts that created economic discontent amongst the American colonists.
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Independence
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Discontent
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Absolute Power
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