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You want a revolution? I want a revelation!
200
Ad fontes!
-The Humanists
What is "To the source".
200
Utopia (1516)
Who was Thomas More?
200
The painting above, entitled "The School of Athens" pays tribute to the ancients as part of this intellectual movement.
What is the Renaissance?
200
The Age of the Scientific Revolution was also the Age of this cultural 'craze', which took the lives of over 30,000 European women. Among the accused was Johannes Kepler's own mother.
What was the European Witch Craze?
200
The Earl of Shrewsberry remarked that Galileo had "overthrown all former astronomy" with his discovery of "four new planets rolling about the sphere of Jupiter", through the use of this Flemish invention.
What is the telescope?
200
In 1962, historian Thomas Kuhn described this 16th century intellectual movement as a paradigm shift, where observable facts such as the retrograde of Mars did not fit in with the prevailing theory.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
400
Sola fide!
-Martin Luther
What is "By Faith Alone"?
400
On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)
Who is Nicolas Copernicus?
400
This is a picture of this thing.
What is a salon?
400
Far from being a relic of the Middle Ages, the domestic sphere for women was developed in this century in Europe.
What is the 19th century?
400
The 20th-century historian Elizabeth Eisenstein postulated that a communications revolution occurred during the Renaissance and Reformation as the result of this new technology.
What is the printing press?
400
Led by the slave-turned General Toussant L'Ouverture, this liberation of a Caribbean island may be the world's only successful slave revolt.
What was the Haitian Revolution?
600
Cuius regio, eius religio.
-The Peace of Augsburg
What is "Whose region, their religion"?
600
What is the Third Estate?
Who is Abbe Sieyes?
600
Painted in 1814 by Francisco Goya, the painting above depicts this country's resistance to the armies of Napoleon.
What is Spain?
600
When Protestants closed these institutions in the sixteenth century, it left medieval women with fewer choices than before.
What are nunneries?
600
The Scientific Revolution, it has been argued, was to some extent caused by an increased interest in the natural world resulting from this intellectual movement of the 15th century.
What was the Renaissance?
600
This revolution began with the third estate walking out of the estates general in 1789, and signaled the end of the Old Regime.
What was the French Revolution?
800
Cogito Ergo Sum
-Descartes
What is "I think therefore I am"?
800
The Spiritual Exercises (1548)
Who is Ignatius Loyola?
800
a 1545 picture of this guy.
Who is Henry VIII?
800
Science in France was supported by the King Louis XIV though this organization.
What was the Academy of Science?
800
Led by the Patriot Whigs against the mercantilist policies of King George III, the success of this Revolution may have had more to do with the Caribean sugar islands than any crossing of the Delaware.
What was the American Revolution?
1000
Tabula Rasa
-John Locke
What is "Blank Slate"?
1000
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Who is Adam Smith?
1000
This 17th century painting celebrates which major English moment in the story of Constitutionalism?
What was the beheading of Charles I?
1000
As the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions, this absolute monarch defended successfully defended her territory against an invasion from Frederick II of Prussia in the War of Austrian Succession.
Who was Maria Theresa? (r. 1740-1780)
1000
In a microcosmic Copernican Revolution of his own, this 17th-century Dutch scientist discovered there are tiny "animolcules" living on nearly every surface, invisible to the naked eye.
Who was Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek?