The introduction of this machine helped to spread new ideas throughout the Reformation, increasing awareness of Protestant ideas.
What is the printing press?
100
These religious neutrals, who believed the good of the nation was more important than the official religion, grew increasingly popular during the Age of Religious Wars.
Who are the politiques?
100
This term is defined as a system of government in which there are no strong institutional checks on the power of a monarch.
What is Absolute Monarchy?
100
These two early Enlightenment figures had differing views on human nature: one believed man was a savage whose strongest instinct was survival, the other believed man to be molded by his experiences, making him a rational being.
Who are Thomas Hobbes and John Locke?
100
This figure helped to popularize a more productive crop rotation system that utilized all of the available farmland, rather than rotating using two of three available fields.
Who is Charles Townsend?
200
This list of grievances against the Catholic church was posted on the door of a Whittenburg church in 1577.
What is the 95 Theses?
200
This Spanish colony rebelled in the late sixteenth century, causing friction between Protestant England and Catholic Spain.
What is Holland (the Spanish Netherlands)?
200
This response of Parliament to King Charles I's request for funds was a step towards a more limited monarchy for England, taking steps to ensure the rights of citizens and of Parliament.
What is the Petition of Right?
200
These leading figures of the French Enlightenment generally believed in middle class roots, religious tolerance, individual liberty, and a reformed society and government.
Who are the Philosophes?
200
This system of transportation was developed during the Industrial Revolution and was largely popular in England.
What is the canal system?
300
This Frenchman is most famous for his doctrine on Predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
300
This English leader, the child of King Henry VIII and his first wife, was a Catholic ruler in a Protestant nation, and executed many Protestant leaders in hopes of reverting England to Catholicism.
Who is Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary)?
300
This seven year period in which Oliver Cromwell ruled over England without becoming king ended with restoration of the Stuart dynasty in 1660.
What is the Protectorate?
300
This figure is often slightly out of the place in an Enlightenment setting, as he believed in man's instincts more so than his ability to reason.
Who is Jean-Jaques Rousseau?
300
The development of factories was actually detrimental to women, who had previously relied on this approach to working, where supplies would be provided by the employer and the worker would deliver the product to the employer the next day.
What is the Domestic System?
400
According to Luther's Protestant doctrine, this Latin phrase signifies the key to man's acceptance into heaven.
What is sola fide (only faith)?
400
This French event in 1572 caused England to join Henry of Navarre and the Dutch in becoming a major Protestant force, infuriating Spain.
What is the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
400
This man is often called the "real" power behind the throne during the reign of Louis XIII of France.
Who is Cardinal Armand d'Richelieu?
400
This editor of the Encyclopedia was responsible for the first collection of essays reflecting the new sciences and ideas of the Enlightenment.
Who is Dennis Diderot?
400
This was the economic basis of eighteenth century life, and the foundation of the status and power of the nobility.
What is land?
500
Henry VIII was refused an annulment from this Spaniard, his first wife. Because of this, England officially became a Protestant nation.
Who is Catherine of Aragon?
500
This comedic event occurred after Ferdinand, of the Holy Roman Empire, went back on a pact to protect the religious rights of the bohemians.
What is the defenestration of Prague?
500
King Louis XIV, through his finance minister Colbert, followed this economic policy type, the goal of which is to increase the wealth of the state by accumulating gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
500
This Enlightenment figure was an advocate for the reformation of criminal law, and was staunchly opposed to capital punishment.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
500
These were the main domestic resources in England at the time of the Industrial Revolution.