The period from 1400 to 1600 that witnessed a transformation of cultural and intellectual values from primarily Christian to classical or secular ones.
What is the renaissance
100
German theologian who challenged the church's practice of selling indulgences, a challenge that ultimately led to the destruction of the unity of the Roman Catholic world
Who is Martin Luther
100
First European to sail to the West Indies in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus
100
Protestant ruler of England who helped stabilize religious tensions by subordinating theological issues to political considerations
What is Elizabeth I
100
The theory that the monarch is supreme and can exercise full and complete power unilaterally
What is Absolutism
200
The recovery and study of classical authors and writings
What is humanism
200
The sensuous and dynamic style of art of the Counter Reformation
What is Baroque
200
Protestant ruler of England who helped stabilize religious tensions by subordinating theological issues to political considerations
Who is Elizabeth I
200
Minister to Louis XIII. His three point plan (1. Break the power of the nobility, 2. Humble the House of Austria, 3. Control the Protestants) helped to send France on the road to absolute monarchy.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu
200
the ruler of France who established the supremacy of absolutism in seventeenth-century Europe
Who is Louis XIV
300
The emphasis on the unique and creative personally
What is individualism
300
Papal pardon for remission of sins
What is a Indulgence
300
Conqueror of the Aztecs
Who is Fernando Cortez
300
Catholic attack on Calvinists on the marriage day of Margaret of Valois to Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV)
What is St. Bartholemew's Day
300
Governmental policies by which the state regulates the economy, through taxes, tariffs, subsidies, laws
What is mercantilism
400
The emphasis on the here and-now rather than on the spiritual and otherworldly
What is Secularism
400
a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism
What is Jesuits
400
Conqueror of Peru
Who is Francisco Pizarro
400
The treaty ending the Thirty Years' War in Germany; it allowed each prince-whether Lutheran, Catholic, or Calvinist-to choose the established creed of his territory
What is the Peace of Westphalia
400
The principal leader and a gentry member of the Puritans in Parliament
Who is Oliver Cromwell
500
A goldsmith and sculptor who wrote an autobiography, famous for its arrogance and immodest self-praise
Who is Benvenuto Cellini
500
Document in which Charles V recognized Lutheranism as a legal religion in the Holy Roman Empire. The faith of the prince determined the religion of his subjects
What is the Peace of Augsburg
500
First European to reach the Pacific Ocean
Who is Vasco de Balboa
500
Swedish Lutheran who won victories for the German Protestants in the Thirty Years War and lost his life in one of the battles
Who is Gustavus Adolphus
500
Radical groups in England in the 1650s who called for the abolition of private ownership and extension of the franchise