Reformation
Renaissance
Exploration
Enlightenment
Revolution, Reaction, and Reform
100
The Northern Christian Humanists used "classical" texts from these cultures to help reform the Catholic Church.
Greece and Rome
100
The family of merchants and bankers who dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance.
Medici
100
The primary motivation for European exploration during the Renaissance.
Economic (precious metals)
100
Scientist-philosopher who provided the link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes on the 18th was...
Fontenelle
100
Architect of the Vienna agreement, he believed in unfettered monarchy.
Metternich
200
This work by Thomas More was a satire on European government and society.
Utopia
200
Commercial and military league set up off the north coast of Germany.
Hanseatic League
200
Italian merchant whose tales of the court of Kublai Khan popularized China in Europe.
Marco Polo
200
He defined the Enlightenment as, "Man's leaving his self-caused immaturity."
Kant
200
Argued that population must be held in check in order for real progress to take place.
Thomas Malthus
300
Which religious reformer "laid the egg that Luther hatched?
Erasmus
300
The author of the "Book of the Courtier" - a handbook on courtly manners.
Baldassare Castiglione
300
First sea captain to make the voyage directly from Europe to India.
Vasco de Gama
300
Unlike Descartes who thought people were born with an innate nature, this person believed in the tabula rasa (blank slate)
John Locke
300
In his "On the Subjection of Women", he argued that men and women did not possess different natures.
J.S. Mill
400
Early 15th century reformer who was burned at the stake.
John Hus
400
Writer of the "Letter to Posterity" and love sonnets to Laura... also famous for penning, "Christ is my God; Cicero is the prince of language."
Petrarch
400
Spanish expansion was exemplified by the conquest of the Aztec empire by this person.
Cortez
400
In this "Spirit of the Laws" he argued that the best political system was one in which power is divided between three branches of government.
Montesquieu
400
The Polish national uprising of 1830 was crushed by this autocratic power.
Russia
500
Luther saw this conflict as a social revolution from the lower classes against what he considered to be "God's divine order."
The Peasant's War
500
Famous work by Pico della Mirandola which argued that man could be whatever he willed or chose to be.
"Oration on the Dignity of Man."
500
The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the New World between this two countries.
Portugal and Spain
500
The leader of the Physiocrats and their advocacy of natural economic law.
Francois Quesnay
500
The French Revolution of 1848 resulted in the rise to power of this person.
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
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