Ren, Ref, Rev (Sci)
What is Protestantism?
His 95 Theses upended Europe in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
As French armies marched through Europe in the first decade of the 19th century, this code was imposed on the people they conquered.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
According to John Locke, these are our three natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
Ms. Schlesinger is from this city.
What is Newton, MA?
This English scientist became famous in 1687 with the publication of the Principia Mathematica.
Who is Isaac Newton?
His book, On the Origin of Species, challenged the Bible and led to new scientific understanding.
Who was Charles Darwin?
The French made the classic mistake of trying (and failing) to conquer this country in 1812.
What is Russia?
The document that founded this philosophy ends with the phrase, "Workers of the World, Unite!"
What is communism?
His painting School of Athens exemplifies many traditions of the Renaissance.
Who is Raphael?
The deep religious tensions in France were revealed with this massacre in 1572.
What is the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
He said, “Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice, it is therefore an emanation of virtue."
Who was Robespierre?
When France sneezed in 1848, overthrowing King Louis-Philippe, they elected this man as president.
Who is Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)?
Rather than painting the world as it looks, this late-19th century art movement focuses on light, color, and movement.
What is impressionism?
This is the precise number of minutes in your spring break.
What is 24,045?
The word "Renaissance" refers to the "rebirth" of this.
What is classical (Greek and Roman) culture?
He was the most influential member of the Congress of Vienna, setting up a balance of power in Europe that would hold for decades.
Who was Karl von Metternich?
The rest of Europe managed to avoid getting sick during the short-lived Paris Commune of this year.
What is 1871?
This thinker famously wrote, "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
Who is John Stuart Mill?
This act restricted the number of hours people under 17 could work in factories in Britain.
What is the Factory Act of 1833?
This is what Galileo mumbled after being sentenced to home arrest for suggesting that the earth moves around the sun.
What is "it still moves"?
"First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable," writes this author, a member of the Bloomsbury group who helped usher in modernist literature.
Who was Virginia Woolf?
The July Revolution of 1830 overthrew this dynasty.
What is the Bourbon Dynasty?
This philosophy, associated with Auguset Comte, suggests that "every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof."
What is positivism?
These 4 men are the only Republicans ever to serve 2 full terms.
Who are Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush?