Renaissance Fair Game
This country took the lead in exploration in the fifteenth century. Prince Henry helped "navigate" this achievement.
What is Portugal?
The French Huguenots saw 20,000 of their own perish in this three-day episode of historic violence.
What is the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
This gout-ridden leader in Spain launched the Armada against his one-time sister-in-law in 1588. It worked out better in the end for her than it did him and he "waddled" away in shame.
Who is Philip II?
Have any inquiries into the nature and causes of the wealth of nation? You should probably ask this founder of capitalism and free-trade.
Who is Adam Smith?
Feel the sublime! Worship nature! This cultural movement had Europeans "Wandering Above the Sea of Fog" and swooning over "Rain, Steam, and Speed."
What is Romanticism?
You definitely wouldn't want less of this author's text "Utopia," especially if you were a Christian Humanist
Who is More?
Government and religion - should ever the two conflict? Not so much according to these types of leaders in European history who subordinated theology to political unity.
What are politiques?
Louis XIV's view of the monarchy was influenced by his traumatizing experience of the revolt known as this.
What is the Fronde?
Major serf uprisings ultimately forced this "enlightened" despot to assure nobles of their rights, but becoming pen-pals with Voltaire and opening up printing presses to Diderot for his Encyclopedia aren't accomplishments to balk at.
Who is Catherine the Great of Russia?
This French utopain socialist believed boredom was the biggest problem with industrial living. He desired phalanx communities with personality inventories and switching up labor tasks for the population.
Who is Charles Fourier?
This astronomer discovered three laws of planetary motion. One had to do with elliptical orbits.
Who is Kepler?
Henry VIII was certainly a "supreme" ruler in England when, in 1534, a desired divorce from this woman also divorced him from the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Catherine of Aragon?
Without this man by his side in the middle-part of his reign, Louis XIV of France could never have maintained a powerful army. After he died, France sunk into financial distress.
Who is Colbert?
This Swiss banker also acted as financial advisor to Louis XVI of France prior to the outbreak of revolution in 1789. He warned of major financial crises in his "Compte Rendu."
Who is Jacques Necker?
In 1819, fields of protesters gathered in St. Peter's Field in Manchester, England to show their distaste for this set of laws which clearly benefited the conservative aristocracy.
What are the Corn Laws?
This "new" monarch would have nobles seeing stars if they didn't agree to end livery and maintenance of their private armies?
Who is Henry VII (Tudor)?
In the Treaty of Nonsuch, Queen Elizabeth I of England gave funding to this European territory as it battled an aggressive Spanish onslaught.
What is the Netherlands?
Without the groundbreaking work of this "Three Musketeers" villain, France may never have become the model of absolute rule. I'm sure he "intended" to be written about.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
Between 1792 - 1794, this fear-inducing movement saw heads roll, bread prices fall, and a new de-Christianized calendar.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This French chemist and English pioneer of antiseptics helped pioneer the germ theory of disease.
Who are Pasteur and Lister?
This religious reformer of Florence set up a theocratic republic and was burned for his efforts in 1498.
Who is Girolamo Savonarola?
The Thirty-Years' War first erupted in this city within the Holy Roman Empire in 1618. Some Catholics were defenestrated.
What is Prague?
This Stuart King of England was "gloriously" dethroned by his own daughter and son-in-law.
Who is James II?
Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau all supported one of these. They all discuss how much freedom you're willing to give up for protection. We may need lawyers to help set one up today.
What is a social contract?
The site of the First World's Fair in 1851 was called this. It was made entirely of glass and iron.
What is the Crystal Palace Exhibition?