Renaissance
Religious Reformation
Exploration
Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
100
The principle bankers of the papacy
Who were the Medici?
100
High church officials took over more than one church office
What is pluralism?
100
Theory that colonies should export raw materials and import finished goods
What is mercantilism?
100
Concluded that the earth revolved around the sun
Who was Copernicus?
100
John Locke's theory that everyone is born with a blank mind
What is tabula rasa?
200
The five major states of Italy
What are the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Florence, the Papal States, and the Kingdom of Naples?
200
Affirmed traditional Catholic teachings in opposition to Protestant beliefs.
What is the Council of Trent?
200
Replaced triangular sails on ships
What are lateen sails?
200
Combined Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Galileo's laws of inertia and falling bodies, and Newton's own mathematical formulas
What is the law of universal gravitation?
200
Belief that God created the universe but allowed it run according to its own natural laws
What is deism?
300
Considered the father of Italian Renaissance humanism
Who was Petrarch
300
Religious group that emphasized absolute obedience to the papacy
Who were the Jesuits?
300
Rounded by the Portuguese explorer, Bartholomew Diaz, in 1488
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
300
The view that all parts of the universe were represented within each person
What is the macrocosm-microcosm analogy?
300
French economic reformers that believed in laissez-faire policies
Who were the physiocrats?
400
One of the most important technological innovations of Western civilization.
What is the printing press?
400
Attempted to restore Catholicism to England.
Who was Bloody Mary?
400
Founded a school for navigators on the southwestern coast of Portugal
Who was Prince Henry?
400
Woman who attacked the belief that through science, humans would be the masters of nature
Who was Margaret Cavendish?
400
Rousseau's treatise on politics and the government
What is "The Social Contract"?
500
An accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect who was commissioned to build a marble statue for the Florentine government
Who was Michelangelo?
500
Forbade relics, church decorations, and music during service in Switzerland.
What is the Zwinglian Reformation?
500
Important Portuguese trading post located on the Malay peninsula
What is Malacca?
500
French scientist who sought to keep science and religion united
Who was Pascal?
500
Well-known philosophe who criticized the religious intolerance of organized Christianity
Who was Voltaire?
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