Unit 1: Renaissance / The Age of Exploration
The main oligarchy family in Florence who helped promote the arts
(Also invented diplomacy and accounting)
What is the Medici Family?
This societal group in France was composed of Calvinists who started to infiltrate much of the French nobility
Who were the Huguenots?
The monarch was known as the "Sun King"
Who was King Louis XIV of France?
This Treaty helped usher in a new age of Peace in Europe allowing for the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
What was the Peace of Westphalia?
The European Battle against Ottoman Expansion into Central Europe was known as
What was the Battle of Vienna?
This INVENTION was the most important invention in promoting this PHILOSOPHY in Europe, especially in the Northern Renaissance
What is the Printing Press (Johannes Gutenburg) and Humanism?
This event kicked of the Thirty Years' War
What was the Defenistration of Prague?
William and Mary of Orange signed this DOCUMENT, ushering this NEW TIME PERIOD IN BRITISH HISTORY after the English Civil War
This scientist came up with the Scientific Method
Who was Francis Bacon?
This "war" was a concertrated war for power in which consequential assinations took place for Henry of Navarre to become Henry IV
What was the War of the Three Henrys?
These painters and sculptors defined the Renaissance period in Italy
Who were Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello?
This MONARCH was too young to rule in France, so instead his MOTHER ruled on his behalf
Who were Louis IX and Catherine De Medici?
Charles I in England imposed his own rule during this time after the parliment was dismissed for nearly 11 years
What was Charles' Personal Rule?
This BELIEF OF THE WORLD'S LOCATION callled by this SCIENTIST, was challenged by the Catholic Church
What is Heliocentric Theory?
Who was Galileo Galilei?
These were the 4 phases of the Thirty Years' War
What is the Bohemian Phase, Dutch Phase, Swedish Phase, and the French-Spanish Phase?
Spanish King, Ferdidnand of Aragon, was concerned about the further French invasions of Italy in which he created this leauge
What is the Leauge of Venice?
The event in France was a suprise attack during the wedding of Henry of Navarre in which many individuals were killed in Paris
What was the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
Peter the Great imposed absolute rule to acommplish this goal
What is modernize Russia to Western European standards?
The ______ ________ was an idea that people gave up rights in exchange for protection and benefits from the government in society, created by this THINKER
What was the Social Contract?
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The papel palace was moved in Avigion, France due to the preasure of the French monarch. But the papacy reverted back to Rome, creating two popes in an event known as
What is the Second Great Schism (1378-1417)?
This author "laid the egg which Luther hatched"
Who was Desiderus Erasmus?
From the exposure of the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church started a Catholic Counter Reformation in which they formed this COUNCIL to deploy these TWO GROUPS of authority to restore Catholicism to it's former glory
What was the Council of Trent?
Who were the Jesuits and Ursulines?
This man was the Protectorate of England after the English Civil War
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
Hobbes saw human beings as ________.
a. naturally docile
b. basically good
c. basically just
d. self-centered, power-hungry creatures
d. self-centered, power-hungry creatures
Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer who finally reached mainland Asia (India) by sea, helped established these colonies
What is Goa and Calcutta?