Renaissance/Reformation
Age of Exploration
Absolutism
Enlightenment
French Revolution
100
The ideal Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
100
The good found in Asia that Vasco da Gama proved was very profitable.
What are spices?
100
A system of government in which a ruler holds total power.
What is Absolutism?
100
He believed Scientists should use inductive reasoning.
Who is Francis Bacon?
100
Ordinary patriots without fine clothes.
What are the san-culottes?
200
The work of Martin Luther.
What is the Ninety-Five Theses?
200
The set of economic principles that dominated the seventeenth century.
What is mercantilism?
200
A Hugenot- this group made up 7% of the French population.
What is a French Protestant?
200
The theory that God is a clockmaker and the world is a clock- God set the world in motion.
What is Deism?
200
The government that Napoleon's coup d'état overthrew.
What is the Directory?
300
The Renaissance movement that had a profound effect on education.
What is Humanism?
300
He went to his grave thinking he found a route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
His ideas are found in the American Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
300
The first country to recognize the new American state.
What is France.
300
The three major parts to Napoleon's empire.
What is: The French Empire, the dependent states, and the allied states?
400
The three high renaissance artists.
Who are Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci & Raphael.
400
This established a line of demarcation that divided the world in half between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
400
The invasion of England by William of Orange, which overthrew James II with almost no bloodshed.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
400
According to John Locke there was something that molded a person.
What are experiences?
400
The reason why the Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers.
What is to defend France from foreign threats?
500
This work is considered important because it is the chief ancestor of the modern English language
What is the Canterbury Tales?
500
The journey of African slaves from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
500
The one country that did not take part in the Thirty Years War.
What is England?
500
An entire society agrees to be governed by its general will.
What is a social contract?
500
The estate that paid all the taxes in the French social system.
What is the third estate?
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