Renaissance
A focus on worldly things outside of religion.
What is Secularism?
Sold by the Catholic Church to release dead loved ones out of purgatory (the in-between from heaven and hell).
What were indulgences?
What was Divine Right?
Scientist credited with theorizing the Heliocentric Model of the solar system.
Who was Copernicus?
First agreement of the National Assembly in May of 1789 in France.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
Invention that aided in the spread of new ideas and helped increase literacy.
What is the Printing Press?
Concept of putting political ambition above religious affiliation in government.
What was Politique?
King that began to westernize Russia.
Who was Peter the Great?
Enlightened ruler that expanded bureaucracy and religious toleration in Prussia.
Who was Frederick II / Frederick the Great?
Jacobin-led group that ensured the revolution was not being threatened by monarchists or sympathizers of the monarchy after the execution of Louis XVI.
What was the Committee of Public Safety?
Conflict that started when the Holy Roman Emperor revoked the Peace of Augsburg (and there was defenestration in Prague).
What was the Thirty Years' War?
(1688) - The non-violent overthrow of James II in England in exchange for his daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
Dramatic music with long and complicated phrasing, most relevant during the 1600s.
What is Baroque music?
Key leader in the Haitian Revolution.
Who was Touissant Louverture?
Author that wrote letters and poems to ancient philosophers such as Cicero.
Who was Petrarch?
Meeting of the Catholic Church officials to reform the Church.
What was the Council of Trent?
Who was William the Silent / William I of Orange?
English doctor that proved blood pumped from the heart rather than the liver.
Who was William Harvey?
French foreign minister that often switched alliances and politicians he supported.
Who was Charles de Talleyrand?
Way in which monarchies changed after the Middle Ages.
What was consolidation of power?
Victor in the War of Three Henrys that established the Edict of Nantes (1598), which granted religious toleration to France.
Who was Henry IV / Henry of Navarre?
Attempted overthrow of the French throne from 1648-1653 by nobility -- this deeply scarred the eventual King Louis XIV.
Backwater rebellion in Russian countryside against Catherine the Great.
What was Pugachev's Rebellion?
Turning point battle for Napoleon gaining control over Central Europe.
What was the Battle of Austerlitz?