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Knowledge Base: History How did struggles over identity cause Year 8 lasting global changes? c.1500 CE to 1843 CE.
3. Key People
3.1 indigenous peoples
3.2 Catherine of Aragón
3.3 pope / papacy
3.4 sultan
3.5 Martin Luther
3.6 slave
3.7 King James VI and I
3.8 Nzinga
4. The Christian Churches
4.1 Christian
4.3 Catholic Church
5. Key Words
5.1 source
5.2 a history
5.3 scholarship
5.4 cause
5.5 consequence
5.6 similarity
5.7 difference
5.8 representation
5.9 agency
A diverse collection of people groups who lived in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans like Columbus. These include Aztec, Inca, and Mayan. Spanish ambassador and princess. She married King Henry VIII, and co-ruled England with him. Histories of her often deny her agency.
The head of The Church in Europe (Roman Catholic Church). Popes claim to be the heirs of Saint Peter in the Christian traditi on.
Muslim king or emperor. For example, Suleiman the Magnificent was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (in modern day Turkey).
A monk in the Catholic Church, and a Professor at a new university in Wittenberg in Germany. He called for reforms within the Catholic Church. Someone who is forced to work for others for little or no money. In ancient times there were slaves almost everywhere in the world.
King of Scotland and England from 1603. He was interested in witches, nearly died in the Gunpowder Plot, and probably had same sex relationships. Ruler of Ndongo and Matamba. She had to deal with the Portuguese, the Pope, and rival African leaders. She led her army after training to be a warrior.
Believers in the Christian God. This is split into different ‘Churches’. Sometimes called Roman Catholic. Led by the Pope in Rome.
Anything that gives a historian clues about the past. For example, some writing on a clay tablet, an old building, or anythin g else from the time.
A version of the past that tells the story of what happened. Historians create histories, but so do many different types of p eople in the past, and still today. A history made by someone who is trying to tell the most accurate (correct / truthful) version of the past that they can.
Why something happened. Also called factors or reasons. In history, there are often many causes for any event or change. Hist orians have to guess them. What something led to. Also called the result of an event or change. Not all consequences are bad. Some are deliberate, and o thers are accidental. Something that two different peoples/nations have in common. ‘They were both Islamic nations.’
Something that one people/nation has that another does not have. ‘Spain was wealthier than...’
When the types of people who were involved in an event appear in the histories of it.
When people are shown in a history to be active and making decisions, they have agency.
4.2
Orthodox Church
The original Christian Church, which continued to lead Christian worship in the East of Europe and Russia after 1054.
4.4
Protestant Church
Protestants are either led by the monarch if a country is officially Protestant Christian, or worship without a leader. There are many different types of Protestants, such as anabaptists or puritans.
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