Feudalism
An oath of loyalty to an overlord
What is Homage?
A.D. 1492
What is the discovery of the Americas?
Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Friedrich Wilhelm , and Maria Theresia all increase the size of what important part of their governments?
What is the army?
This is the first war that ends with the execution of a king.
What is the English Civil War?
Thomas Hobbes wrote this book about how terrible people are.
What is The Leviathan?
A laborer tied to the land due to debt bondage
What is a serf?
A.D. 313
What is the Edict of Milan?
Frederick the Great was first called "Great" by this person.
Who is Voltaire?
This was the first war fought on a global scale.
What is the Seven Years' War?
John Locke says humans are aware of these 3 natural rights.
What are Life Liberty, and Property?
At the center of life in the middle ages
A.D. 1517
What are the 95 Theses?
Peter and Catherine of Russia both conquer, Azov, an important conquest for Russia to use in this way.
What is a port or trade city?
Robespierre leads this bloody period of the French Revolution
What is the Reign of Terror?
This philosophe calls the Church "the infamous one" and thinks it is only there to control people.
Voltaire
Killed one-thirds to two-thirds of Europe
What is the Black Death?
A.D. 1789
What is the French Revolution?
This ruler pleads with the Hungarians to fight against the attacks of Frederick the Great in the War of Austrian Succession.
Who is Maria Theresia?
The French Revolution begins with the storming of this famous prison
What is the Bastille?
This philosopher comes to the conclusion, "I think; therfore, I am."
Who is Rene Descartes?
The Hundred Years War, The Black Death, centralization of taxes, and professional armies
What is the Decline of Feudalism?
A.D. 1648
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
What is the Catholic Church?
This document ends the Thirty Years War, establishing greater religious tolerance and the basis of international law for the following hundred years.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This philosophy argues that we can only know the truth through reason.
What is Rationalism?