Renaissance & Reformation
The Eighteenth Century
French Revolution & the Rise of Napoleon
Post-Napoleonic Era & and the Nineteenth Century
WWI, WWII, and Post-WWII
100

The beginning of the Renaissance is most closely associated with:

What Florence?

100

This author expressed this in Social Contract: “The law is the expression of the general will.  All citizens have a right to concur either personally or by their representatives in its formation. The law should be the same for all, whether it protects or whether it punishes.”              

Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?

100

Followers were his were Jacobins and sans-culottes; started The Reign of Terror

Who is Maximilien Robespierre

100

Both France and Britain supported the Ottoman Empire against the Russians

What is the Crimean War?

100
Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Germany
What is the Triple Alliance
200

First to suggest the heliocentric model of the solar system

Who is Nicolas Copernicus?

200

Denied peasant access to common lands; cash crops

What is the Enclosure movement?

200
Clergy are chosen and paid for by the state; Catholicism is deemed the religion of most Frenchmen
What is the Concordat of 1801
200
Falsely accused a Jewish man in 1894 France; illustrated the strong anti-Semitism feelings in France
What is the Dreyfus Affair
200

As a result of the 1905 revolution, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agreed to

What is create the Duma? Create a national legislative assembly

300

The intention of this treaty was to end conflict between Lutherans and Roman Catholics in the German states

What is the Peace of Augsburg (1555)?

300
Frederick II marched troops to Silesia; challenged the birth-right of Maria-Theresa
What is the War of Austrian Succession
300
Protected property, equality before the law, eroded the remains of the old feudal system
What is the Napoleonic Code
300

This reestablished the foundations of aristocratic dominance that had been challenged by the French Revolution

What is the Congress of Vienna

300

Britain and France approved the surrender of the Sudetenland to Germany

What is the Munich Conference 1938?

400

“O highest and most marvelous felicity of man!  To him it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.”     This quotation expresses the views of:

Who is Pico della Mirandola in On the Dignity of Man?

400

This famous text became the basis for modern Capitalism

What is the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 1776?

400
Supported Italian unification; nationalistic movement "Young Italy"; unity based on natural affinities and a shared soul
Who is Guiseppe Mazzini
400

This group of English workers opposed the development of factories

Who are the Luddites?

400

These reforms and protest by the Czechoslovakian government in 1968 led to this impactful Cold War event

What is Prague Spring?

500
Artistic style of the 17th century; stressed grandeur and drama; appealed to monarchs
What is Baroque
500

This was the primary problem facing Louis XVI in the late 1780's

What is the poverty of the French nation?

500
Napoleon's defeat against the British in Belgium; also a famous song by ABBA
What is the Battle of Waterloo
500
Germany was put under the Prussian crown; Prussia increases power by whatever means necessary; method created by Bismarck
What is Realpolitik
500

Negotiate the terms to end WWII; after the Yalta Conference; major question of how to handle Germany

What is the Potsdam Conference

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