French kings succeeded in taming this supposed legislature in the 15th century and it didn't meet from 1614 until the big conflict in 1789.
What is the Estates General?
100
Disease the spread most rapidly in urban areas, it undermined feudalism and accentuated the late medieval preoccupation with death and salvation.
What is the Black Death?
100
A form of manufacturing that developed in the 17th-18th centuries as a way for entrepreneurs to bypass the guild system and use rural families to supplement their meager incomes.
What is the cottage industry?
100
A pious Catholic, she installed the inquisition in Spain, expelled Jews, funded exploration, and initiated Spain's greatness.
Who is Isabella I (1479-1506)?
100
This new division of the aristocracy emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries as states came to rely on the skills of literate officeholders rather than martial arts.
What are the Nobles of the Robe and the Nobles of the Sword?
200
Well-meaning but without an ounce of political skill, this monarch and his wife came to symbolize all that was wrong with the Old Regime.
Who are Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette?
200
Name any five city-states during the Italian Renaissance.
What are Milan, Florence, Naples, Venice, and the Papal States? (Also Siena, Mantua, Ferrara, Urbino, etc)
200
The prevailing philosophy of the 17th-18th centuries, it emphasized the search for colonies, specie, and government control of the economy.
What is mercantilism?
200
More politique than Machiavellian, she wished to compromise with Huguenots and maintain the Valois dynasty in France, an effort at which she failed.
Who is Catherine de Medicis?
200
This French aristocrat should not be confused with a democrat, for in his Spirit of the Laws he advances the power of the nobles through their traditional institutions to check absolutism (e.g. separation of powers).
Who is Montesquieu?
300
In his Political Testament, this prince of the Church justified his policies of raison d'etat in the 30 Years War and advancing of royal absolutism under Louis XIII.
Who is Cardinal Richilieu?
300
This factory owner pushed for two sets of laws to improve the working conditions of workers in the 19th century.
Who is Robert Owen?
300
When Russia refused to adhere to this trade system aimed at Great Britain, Napoleon decided to invade in 1812.
What is the Continental System?
300
She wrote a response to the Declaration of Rights of Man, only to lose her head for appealing to Marie Antoinette to lead a revival of female culture.
Who is Olympia de Gouges?
300
The nobles took a hit with this amazing action of the National Assembly on August 4, 1789.
What is the abolition of serfdom and feudalism?
400
Another symbol of absolutism fell on this French holiday. Name the building and the date,
What is the Bastille, July 14, 1789?
400
The Crystal Palace Exhibition took place here in 1851.
What is London?
400
Perhaps the most significant invention of the early Industrial Revolution, it changed society's sense of time and place and was able to bring inexpensive goods to market in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
What are railroads?
400
She wasn't as bad as her reputation suggested, but she was unpopular, thanks mostly to her works such as Foxe's Book of Martyrs (which showed her persecution of Protestants).
Who is Mary I (Tudor)?--1553-1558
400
The concept of childhood was really the work of these two philosophers, one British and one French.
Who are John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
500
Louis XIV's economic advisor helped promote French manufacturing, acquired colonies, and developed France's infrastructure, but couldn't keep up his master's wars.
What is Jean-Baptiste Colbert?
500
In 1453, this city's capture by Ottoman Turks completed the exodus of Greek scholars to Italy and led to Russian claims that Moscow was now the "Third Rome."
What is Constantinople?
500
With this development, many peasants switched to cash crops to take advantage of the rising prices, setting in motion commercial agriculture.
What is the Price Revolution?
500
Her long reign saw the development of English identity and its emergence as a key world player, but the religious issue she tried to compromise on flared again after her death in 1603.
Who is Elizabeth I?
500
This political club formed in the early days of the revolution and produced some of its most important leaders--from both the Girondin and the Mountain.