This document provides definitions and summaries of important people, places, events, and concepts from European and American history between 1500-1800. It covers topics related to art and architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe, the absolutist monarchy in France under Louis XIV at Versailles, Enlightenment philosophy, and the American and French Revolutions. Key figures and events mentioned include Ignatius Loyola, El Greco, Versailles, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Boston Tea Party, the storming of the Bastille, and Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power.