Renissance
Diplomatic Events
Scientific Revolution
Key People
Key Terms
100
What does the term renaissance mean and why did it apply to the time period?
What is rebirth, because it was a rebirth of greek and roman ideas
100
This treaty put an end to WWI but also sparked causes for WWII. It also forced Germany to sign a war-guilt clause.
What is the Treaty of Versailles
100
What was the model of the universe that was introduced by Copernicus?
What is the Heliocentric Model
100
Who was a scientific socialist who coauthored The Communist Manifesto and believed history of class conflict is best understood through thesis, anthesis, and synthesis?
Who was Karl Marx
100
A policy of making concessions to an agressor to avoid war.
What is appeasement
200
Who was the powerful rich banking family of Florence?
What is the Medici family
200
What conference discredited the Brisish appeasement policy and was a symbol of surrender?
What is the Munich Conference
200
What were the bodily 4 humors which Galen attributed to disease?
What is blood, yellow bile, phlegm and black bile
200
Who were the three people present at the Yalta Conference?
Who were Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin
200
An economic philosophy that emphasized building a strong self-sufficient economy by maximizing exports and limiting imports.
What is mercantilism
300
What were the three estates and who made them up?
What is the First Estate- upper and lower clergy Second Estate- nobility (military and political positions) Third Estate- everyone else who was not the clergy or nobility (peasants and merchant class)
300
This brought an end to the Thirty Years' War and recgonized Calvinism as a legally permissible faith.
What is the Peace of Westphalia
300
Who was the pivotal figure who wrote Principa, a book on the laws of motion?
Who was Isaac Newton
300
Who was said to be the founder of modern political science and wrote The Prince?
Who was Niccolo Machiavelli
300
A doctrine introduced by John Calvin saying that God has known since the beginning who would be saved and who would be damned.
What is predestination
400
What were the five dominant wealthy powerful city-states?
What are the Papal States Naples Milan Venice Florence
400
What is the pact that was signed by 62 countries and promised to "renounce war as an instrument of national policy" and renewed a sense of optimism?
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact
400
Who formulated the three laws of planetary motion?
Who was Johannes Kepler
400
Who was the Prostestant wife of William of Orange?
Who was Mary
400
The everyday language of a region or country, it is the language that is spoken by ordinary people.
What is Vernacular
500
What did humanists believe their curriculum would teach?
The believed it would teach future business, political and military leaders how to become eloquent and persuasive speakers/writers.
500
This granted religious tolerance to French Protestants and marked the first recognition by a European monarchy that two religions could coexist in the same country.The
What is the Edict of Nantes
500
Who wrote On the Motion of the Heart and Blood and what did it prove or disprove?
William Harvey It disproved Galen’s theories about the heart, liver and how the blood passed through the body. It showed the heart was the beginning point of the circulatory system, and proved the same blood flows through veins and arteries to make a full circuit.
500
Who was the real ruler of france from 1624-1642 and and chief minister of Louis XIII?
Who was Cardinal Richelieu
500
A scientific theory associated with Albert Einstein. Relativity holds that time and space do not exist seperately. Instead they are combined into a continuum and the measurements depend on observer and the entities being measured.
What is Relativity
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