Renaissance & Reformation
This Italian city is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
This French king declared, "I am the state."
Who is Louis XIV?
The storming of this prison became a symbol of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
This country industrialized first.
What is England?
The assassination of this Austrian archduke sparked World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
He painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Who is Michelangelo?
This palace symbolized French absolutism.
What is Palace of Versailles?
This document proclaimed the rights of French citizens in 1789.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
This invention provided a new source of power for factories, mines, and transportation during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
In 1517, this reformer posted the Ninety-Five Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
This English document limited the power of the monarch in 1689.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This leader crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This ideology called for worker ownership of the means of production.
What is socialism?
Germany's rapid invasion strategy was known by this term.
What is Blitzkrieg?
This council was the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
This political philosopher argued people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This assembly sought to restore stability after Napoleon's defeat.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
These authors wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
This event marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
What is Germany's invasion of Poland?
This Christian humanist wrote In Praise of Folly and criticized abuses within the Catholic Church.
Who is Desiderius Erasmus?
This event removed James II and strengthened Parliament's power.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This political ideology sought to preserve traditional institutions such as monarchy, aristocracy, and the established church after the French Revolution.
What is conservatism?
This economist wrote The Wealth of Nations.
Who is Adam Smith?
This Allied operation opened a Western Front in June 1944.
What is D-Day?