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This German monk posted his 95 Theses on a church door in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
In 1776, the 13 American colonies declared independence from this country.
What is Great Britain?
Which of my two children Arlen (13) or Millie (10) do I like more?
I loathe them both equally.
In this form of government, the people hold power and vote for their leaders.
What is a democracy?
John Locke said people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and this.
What is property?
This invention let Luther's pamphlets spread quickly across Europe.
What is the printing press?
In 1789, Paris revolutionaries stormed this prison, sparking the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
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What is the meaning of Life?
In this type of democracy, citizens vote directly on laws themselves.
What is a direct democracy?
Montesquieu argued government power should be divided into branches — this idea.
What is the separation of powers?
Luther's 1517 list of complaints against the sale of indulgences.
What are the 95 Theses?
American colonists protested 'taxation without' this.
What is representation?
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In this type of democracy, citizens elect representatives to make laws for them.
What is a representative democracy?
Rousseau argued that legitimate government rests on this agreement, which requires the consent of the people.
What is the social contract?
The bible was not accessible to common Germans prior to the Protestant Reformation, primarily for this reason.
It was written in Latin and the vast majority of Germans didn't speak Latin
Luther's 1517 list of complaints against the sale of indulgences.
What are the 95 theses?
If you're ever caught leaving a mess after eating during block 5 in Mr. Blair's class, he'll bludgeon you with this tool.
What is the ban hammer.
In this form of government, one ruler holds total power and cannot be voted out.
What is a dictatorship?
Hobbes described life without government as 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and' this.
What is short?
Luther translated the Bible into German, putting it in this kind of everyday language ordinary people could read.
What is the vernacular?
One reason democracy succeeded: revolutionaries replaced kings with written rules limiting power, like this 1787 American document.
What is the Constitution?
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Unlike an absolute monarchy, this system has a king or queen whose power is limited by a constitution.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
This principle lets each branch of government limit the others so none becomes too powerful.
What are checks and balances?