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The 1494 agreement dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This monk began the Protestant Reformation with his 95 Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
What is the Edict of Nantes?
This palace became the symbol of French absolutism and royal splendor.
What is Versailles?
This philosopher believed government should protect life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This explorer completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The Catholic Church’s reform effort responding to Protestant challenges.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
This French king granted limited religious tolerance to the Huguenots (French Protestants) and ended the French Wars of Religion with an edict granting limited religious tolerance.
Who is Henry IV?
Russian czar who modernized his country and built St. Petersburg and hated beards.
Who is Peter the Great?
Parliament’s victory in this 17th-century war established its supremacy over the monarchy.
What is the English Civil War?
New crops like potatoes and maize introduced to Europe through this exchange.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1545–1563 meeting reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings.
What is the Council of Trent?
The treaty that ended the Thirty Years’ War.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This English event (1688) established constitutional monarchy.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
The document William and Mary signed in 1689 limiting royal power.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The economic system based on accumulating gold and favorable trade balances.
What is mercantilism?
In England, those who sought to reform the Church of England.
Who are the Puritans?
This was an act of the English Parliament in 1534 that declared King Henry VIII the Supreme Head of the Church of England.
What is the Act of Supremacy?
L’État, c’est moi” was famously attributed to this French monarch.
Who is Louis XIV?
Dutch prosperity in the 17th century was based on this form of government.
What is a republic?
Spanish conquerors who subjugated the Aztecs and Incas.
Who are the conquistadors?
In England, those who separated entirely from the Church of England.
Who were Dissenters?
This Spanish monarch launched the failed Armada against England in 1588.
Who is Philip II?
He wrote Leviathan, arguing that humans need a strong ruler to maintain order.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This political thinker defended separation of powers in The Spirit of the Laws.
Who is Montesquieu?