What is 95?
The country Marco Polo was from.
What is Italy?
Absolutism is when ultimate authority rests solely in these hands
What is a king who rules by divine right?
The time period where plays of William Shakespeare characterized the patriotic enthusiasm and pride of the English.
What is the Elizabeth era?
Invented calculus
Who is Newton?
People sought certainty of this through a variety of means including the purchase of indulgences
What is Salvation?
established the first school for sea travelers
Who was Prince Henry of Portugal or Prince Henry the Navigator?
He desired to insure the dominance of France in all Europe
Who is King Louis XIV?
Wrote the book The Starry Messenger
Who was Galileo?
Country where Maria Winkelmann was from.
What is Germany?
council of bishops who wanted to hear what Luther had to say and to give him a chance to retract what he said in the pamphlets
What is the Diet of Worms?
Location of the financial center of Europe in the seventeenth century
What is Amsterdam?
an uprising in France that nearly overthrew Louis XIV early in his reign
What is the Fronde?
Copernicus's major book titled
What was On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres?
state control over a country's economy in order to achieve a favorable balance of trade with other countries
What is mercantilism?
Made Luther an outlaw within the Holy Roman Empire.
What was the Edict of Worms?
What Cortés conquered.
the "sleeping giant" of Eastern Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century
What was the Ottoman Empire?
Made accurate observations of the planets
Who was Tycho Brahe?
style in 17th century art and literature resembling the arts in the ancient world and in the Renaissance
What is French Classicism?
the chief characteristics of John Calvin's reform movement
What are predestination and the absolute sovereignty of God.
conquistador who conquered and looted the Inca Empire in 1531
Who was Fransisco Pizarro?
The part of the world exerted the most influence on Italy by the eighteenth century
What was Austria?
Descartes's book that expounded his theories about the universe
What is Discourse on Method?
Never became a highly centralized, absolutist state, in part because it included too many different national groups
What was the Austrian Monarchy?