Renaissance/Reformation
Who is the Medici family
This type of business believes it should sell more good than it buys from other countries.
What is Mercantilism
This city was established by Peter the Great as a seaport that would help make it easier to travel to the west.
This era prompted three major things, a belief in progress, a more secular outlook, and faith in science.
What is the Enlightenment
What is the guillotine
This government body replaced the National Assembly in France in 1791.
This person was a painter, sculptor, inventor, and scientist. This person is a an example of a Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci
During this time, many cultures lost their fittest members and families were torn apart.
What is the African Slave Trade
The issuance of this was to bring an end to violent religious conflicts in France.
What is the Edict of Nantes
This document represented enlightenment ideals and said that people have rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is the Declaration of Independence
What is Portugal
This group was the most radical members of the Legislative Assembly.
Who are the Left-Wing
This was a known as a rebirth of art and learning
What is the Renaissance
Who is Hernando Cortes
This belief was used to help support absolute rule.
What is divine right
This person influenced the branches of government
Who is Baron de Montesquieu
This French document states that all men are born and remain free and equal in rights.
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man
This was a radical group named for the style of breeches its members wore.
Who are the Sans-Cullotes
This individual had three major beliefs. All people with faith are equal, people could win salvation only by faith in God, and that the church teachings should be based on the Bible.
Who is Martin Luther
These companies funded the colonies in the Americas in the 1500 and 1600s.
What is joint stock companies
This document made clear the limits of royal power.
What is the English Bill of Rights
This Enlightenment philosopher believed people are selfish and evil, and a strong monarchy is needed to control human behavior.
Who is Thomas Hobbes
This person was unwilling to accept defeat, an example of this was his return to France to raise another army.
Who is Napoleon
This person was considered the greatest military leader of France.
Who is Napoleon
This was the selling of pardons that release a person from their sins.
What is an indulgence
These were the three motives for the Age of Exploration.
What is God, Glory, and Gold
The political purpose of this place was to show the power of Louis XIV and arouse the envy of the other monarchs.
What is the Palace of Versailles
This Enlightenment philosopher focused on justice and reforming the criminal justice system.
Who is Cesare Baccaria
The goals were to Establish a balance of power in Europe, prevent future french aggression, and restore royals to the throne.
What is the Congress of Vienna
This individual declared himself head of the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII
This individual influenced Exploration by funding a navigational school on the coast of Portugal.
Who is Prince Henry of Portugal
This restoration in England restored what power
What is the monarchy
This Enlightenment philosopher believed civilization corrupts people's natural goodness.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This European leader was the most influential at the Congress of Vienna.
Who is Metternich
This French female was vocal in France that the Declaration of the Rights of Man, did not give the same rights to women.
Who is Olympe de Gouges
This person invented the printing press.
Who is Johann Gutenberg
This explorer explored the interior parts of Canada with the hope of finding the Northwest Passage.
Who is Henry Hudson
This person visited Western Europe and learned about Western customs and technology
Who is Peter the Great
During this revolution, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity were three words mentioned in the slogan.
What is the French Revolution
The policy of burning fields and killing livestock was used by the Russians to defeat Napoleon.
What is the scorched earth policy
During this meeting, a major issue that arose was how many votes each estate would get.
What is the Estates General
The belief in predestination was a major teaching of the Reformation.
Who is John Calvin
This explorer was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias
This Czar made an effort to westernize Russia.
Who is Peter the Great
This French philosopher used satire to criticize the Church of aristocracy. He fought for tolerance, reason, and freedom of religion and speech.
This French group most strongly embraced the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Who are the Bourgeoisie
This person was responsible for the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilian Robespierre
An increase in the literacy rate and the use of vernacular were two important effects of this invention.
What is the printing press
This conquistador conquered the Incas in Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro
This war was fought over religion, Territory, and power among European ruling families.
What is the Thirty Years War
This Enlightenment philosopher believed people have the right to overthrow the government if it fails to uphold its end of the social contract.
Who is John Locke
Three reasons for selling this was to cut losses in America, increase Americas power as a British Rival, and to raise money.
What is Louisiana Territory.
This radical French revolutionary was stabbed by another revolutionary while he was taking a bath.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat
This person wanted a divorce and a male heir to the throne.
Who is Henry VIII
This explorers crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
This person organized a police force that murdered people he considered traitors.
Who is Ivan the Terrible
On July 14, 1789, in Paris France, a mob stormed a prison.
What is the Battle of Bistille
These people are the most conservative members of the Legislative Assembly.
Who are the right wing
This person claimed, shortly before being beheaded, his severed head would be a sight "well worth seeing"
Who is Danton