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The Medici family, which saw four of its members become the Pope, made its vast wealth through what?
Banking
Of Martin Luther's 95 theses/objections, the one that he despised, almost above all others, was the sale of what?
Indulgences
Whereas modern paper is mostly made from trees, the vellum that Gutenberg wanted to use to print the Bible was made from the skin of what animal?
Baby cows/Calves
You would not have expected Genghis Khan to fear anything, but he did. He had a fear of what?
Dogs
In addition to be a prolific inventor, Da Vinci was also famous for what famous painting?
The Mona Lisa
What is the "jingle" for describing the fate of King Henry VIII's six wives?
___ , ___ , ___ , ___ , ___ , ___
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived
Martin Luther's father, Hans, was very much opposed to Luther becoming a monk. This is because Hans wanted Luther to become a what?
Lawyer
As mentioned in the Thirty Years War video, it wouldn't be until WWI that armies began suffering from more deaths as a result of combat then what two causes?
Famine and Disease
On Christmas Day, in the year 800, Charlemagne was crowned the Emperor of what?
Holy Roman Empire
One of the key figures from the Thirty Years War was Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. What was his nickname?
The Lion From The North
I have jokingly called Isaac Newton the "biggest nerd in history." This is due, in part to the fact that he created a whole new type of mathematics to explain & understand the universe. What was the type of mathematics?
**bonus points if you can correctly give the original name**
Calculus
Thomas Jefferson reused John Locke's three natural rights when writing the Declaration of Independence. However, Jefferson modified them slightly. What were Locke's three natural rights as he originally wrote them?
Life, Liberty, and Property
Galileo was the first person to see the moons of what planet?
**bonus points per moon if you can also name them**
Jupiter
Machiavelli famously said that "it is better to be __ than __ if you cannot be both."
**fill in the blanks**
Feared, Loved
This order of warrior monks wore mostly white but also had red crosses sewn on their clothes.
The Knights Templar
Just as the Protestant Reformation, started by Martin Luther, was followed by the Counter-Reformation, the Counter-Reformation was followed by what war?
The Thirty Years War