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Metternich drove this meeting, which established a post-Napoleonic order in 1815.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
Martin Luther kickstarted this movement when he declared that good works had no part in salvation.
What is the Reformation?
This duce was hung upside down by anti-fascist partisans in 1945.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Don’t let the name fool you — this political body dated from the time of Charlamagne to the Age of Napoleon.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
Niccolò Machiavelli put forward controversial ideas about political authority in this 1532 book.
What is The Prince?
At this sports facility in 1789, the French National Assembly swore to meet until a constitution was in place.
What is the Tennis Court?
Georgio Vasari coined the name of this 15th- 16th-century movement to revive and surpass the ideas and achievements of classical antiquity.
What is the Renaissance?
This revolutionary mastered the use of the guillotine perhaps too well — it fell on his neck in 1794.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Germany from 1918-1933 is best known by this name.
What is the Weimar Republic?
It may not make you swoon, but this 1818 novel made Mary Shelley one of the masters of romantic literature.
What is Frankenstein?
Not much scrambling happened at this 1885 meeting, which divided up claims to Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This ideology of individual rights gained prominence as the power of the bourgeoisie grew.
What is liberalism?
The 30 Years' War began with what window-related murder attempt in 1618?
What is the Defenestration of Prague?
The Frankfurt Parliament proposed a “Lesser Germany,” which excluded most notably this German-speaking region.
What is Austria?
Erich Maria Remarque described the trauma of World War I in this book, published ten years after the armistice.
What is All Quiet on the Western Front?
The Catholic Church formed a response to the Reformation at this twenty-year meeting, which started in 1545.
What is the Council of Trent?
Your answer to this question should share the name of Immanuel Kant’s 1804 essay seeking to clarify this intellectual movement.
What is Enlightenment?
This Franciscan friar campaigned for a “bonfire of the vanities” — before his own body was torched in 1498.
Who is Girolamo Savonarola?
Soviet-aligned East Germany went by this official name.
What is the German Democratic Republic (DDR)?
Johannes Gutenberg’s first printed book, in the 1450s, was this much older text, which remains a best seller.
What is the Bible?
These two meetings created Allied zones of occupation after World War II.
What are the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences?
Joseph II and Catherine the Great were among this group of 18th- and 19th-century leaders who sought to combine lessons from the rule of Louis XIV with those from writers like Voltaire.
Who are enlightened absolutists?
Henry VIII had this number of his 6 wives killed.
What is two? (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.)
German Unification was complete with the end of the Franco-Pussian war in this year.
What is 1871?
Thomas Hobbes argued in this 1651 book that only a strong state could prevent the chaos he had experienced.
What is Leviathan?