History 1005 Matching

Versailles

Palace of Louis XIV

Peace of Alais

Treaty Richelieu made with the Huguenots

Philip II

King of Spain from 1556-1598

Atahualpa

King of incas

Long parliament

Lasted twenty years

Intendants

Local royal French officials

Oliver Cromwell

Lord protector

Statue of artificers

Origin of "spinster"

Petition of right

Ranks with Magna Carta in importance

Gunpowder plot

Scheme to blow up parliament

Cabeza De Vaca

Walked from Texas to Mexico

Prince Henry

Began a school of navigation in Portugal

Richelieu

Chief minister of France

Fronde

French civil war

Hernando Cortes

Conquered the Aztecs

Francisco Pizarro

Conquered the incas

Christopher Columbus

Discovered new world

Colbert

Economic minister to Louis XIV

Instrument of government

England's only written constitution

James I

English translation of the bible

Fredrick II

Enlightened ruler in Germany who instituted many reforms

Quebec

First permanent French settlement

Vasco Da Gama

The first European to sail around Africa

Louis XIV

The sun King