Column of Random Questions I
Column of Random Questions II
Column of Random Questions III
Column of Random Questions IV
Column of Random Questions V
100
A European group of peoples that felt motivated, at least in part, to explore the 'new world' because of a perceived need to compete with other European nations for goods and resources.
Who are the Spanish?
100
As practiced during the Renaissance, this is a cultural movement that tried to practice the civic activism found in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
What is humanism?
100
A concept explored in a speech given by Maximilien Robespierre that equated democracy with virtue and justified the use of terror in defending it.
What is the Republic of Virtue?
100
An 1814-1815 meeting in Europe that sought to fundamentally reorganize political boundaries to establish a 'balance of power.
What was the Congress of Vienna?
100
A text written by Thomas Hobbes that notably does not advocate for more rights for the common person.
What is Leviathan?
200
Defeating this naval force in 1588 effectively set up England as the dominant European naval power.
What is the Spanish Armada?
200
The class of people that Karl Marx felt should be overthrown as expressed in the Communist Manifesto.
Who are the Bourgeoisie?
200
An event that is typically considered to have been the start of the French Revolution.
What is the storming of the Bastille?
200
The Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation - it's main goal being to condemn and refute the central ideas of Protestantism.
What was the Council of Trent?
200
The economic construct that stipulates private ownership of property, prices and distribution of goods is best determined by market forces.
What is capitalism?
300
The (male) French monarch who was beheaded during the French Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
300
The kinds of economic policies that would be OPPOSITE of the policies enforced in a mercantilist economy.
What are laissez-faire economic policies?
300
Two things that work to ensure an effective democratic republic which were largely absent in the growth of nineteenth-century global empires.
(I'm sorry this is worded weird...)
What are constitutions and voting rights?
300
A 16th-century scientific 'discovery' that was eventually seen to be controversial as it challenged the understanding of the universe as put forth by the Catholic Church.
What is heliocentrism or heliocentric solar system?
300
A techno-social phenomenon that radically changed the lives of Europeans, but notably did NOT improve the quality of life for all social classes - particularly laborers.
What is industrialization?
400
A British sociologist who (erroneously) argued that food production will never be able keep up with the rate of population growth.
Who is Thomas Robert Malthus?
400
True or False: The unification of the German state was a factor in the outbreak of World War I.
False
400
A significant reason that President Wilson refused to allow Russia's representation at the Paris Peace Conference following WWI.
What is communism/ a communist nation?
400
A European nation, one of the first, to look toward overseas exploration and trade due to a perceived lack of access to resources as a consequence of geography.
What is Portugal?
400
An economic law that can explain why the cost to rent land fell in both England and France after the 100 years war.
What is the law of supply and demand?
500
The most commonly accepted reason for why Raskolnikov turned himself in near the end of Crime and Punishment.
What is guilt?
500
The person most frequently credited with developing the movable-type printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
500
A text written in the late 19th century that advocated for economic revolution as a response to the horrific living conditions of most Europeans.
What is the Communist Manifesto?
500
Two groups (name both) who were exempted from taxation causing unrest that eventually led to the French Revolution.
Who are the nobility and church officials?
500
A geographic feature that played a significant role in the way England developed culturally and economically.
What is an island?
600
An economic policy by which nations such as England protected local industries from foreign competition through the use of tariffs.
What is mercantilism?
600
A natural disaster that exacerbated economic and social conditions in France, which is considered to be a significant factor leading to the French Revolution of 1789.
What is crop failure?
600
Regarding this substance, Portia discovers a loophole in Shylock's bond to stop him from taking a pound of Antonio's flesh.
What is blood?
600
This map shows the movement of "what" within European history?
Spread of the plague.
600
A novel that creates a picture of class distinction and struggles in England during the 19th century.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
700
True or False: Jerry Cruncher is an English spy.
False
700
A literary character who 'spares' a country girl from 'corruption' because he tries to redeem his soul.
Who is Dorian Gray?
700
The concept that one must 'add' to another thing in order for said 'thing' to become private property.
What is labor?
700
The character who was 'buried alive' for 18 years in A Tale of Two Cities.
Who is Dr. Manette?
700
The biblical story that Raskolnikov asks Sonya to read to him in Crime and Punishment.
What is the tale of Lazarus?
800
This country's expansive countryside and harsh winter decimated Napoleon's army.
What is Russia?
800
True or False: According to John Locke, reason governs human actions in the state of nature.
False.
800
A method of knowing/understanding championed by Francis Bacon that focuses on drawing conclusions from observations and evidence.
What is inductive reasoning?
800
A practice of the Catholic Church that Martin Luther notably condemned in his 95 theses.
What is selling indulgences?
800
The 'gift' the Dauphin of France sends Henry V at the beginning of Shakespeare's play.
What are tennis balls?