Midterm review

• Galileo
• Kepler- Danish astronomer. Improved the Dutch telescope even more than Galileo. 
• Copernicus- Believed, against Aristotle, that the sun was the center of the universe, not the Earth. 
• Poland
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• Lack of the centralized authority leaves a power vacuum, which leaves it very vulnerable to attack
• Suleiman the Magnificent- led the Ottoman empire through the first half of the 16th century
• Charles VI- reigned in the first half of the 18th century ********
• Pragmatic sanction
• He was going to pass on the Empire to his daughter, since he didn't have and heir. 
• Prussia
• Absolutism
• Hohenzollern Family
• Brandenburg
• Estates
• Frederick William
• Frederick, King of Prussia
• Frederick William I 
• Russia
• Ivan the Terrible
• Romanov
• Michael Romanov
• Peter the Great
• Built the city of Saint Petersburg
• Explorers
• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Bartholomew Diaz
• Pedro Cabral
• Vasco de something- went through the isthmus of panama
• Hernando Cortez- fought the Aztecs in Mexico
• Magellan- First guy to circumnavigate the globe
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