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What is the difference between the Northern and Southern Rennaissance Movements?
Extra Credit: Explain the significance of the Printing Press.
The Northern Rennaissance focused on faith and family, Southern was characterized by secularism and the exaltation of the individual.
What was the Enlightenment?
(No Negative points)
The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects (thanks google).
Define Imperialism.
In their efforts to find a direct trade route to Asia during the age of Imperialism, European nations established colonies in the Americas, India, South Africa, and the East Indies, and gained territory along the coasts of Africa and China.
What is a Panzer?
A tank used by the German military, developed in the Inter-war period and utilized in Blitzkriegs.
Who is Volodymyr Zelensky?
The President of Ukraine.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The Columbian Exhange was the exchange of goods, technologies and plants between Europe and the Americas.
Who was Louis XIV and explain Absolutism in European Politics?
Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in history.
Absolutism was the idea that, in most cases, the monarch possessed a God-given right to complete control over a country. It was characterized by centralized power and bureaucracy.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
The Industrial Revolution transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system. New machines, new power sources, and new ways of organizing work made existing industries more productive and efficient.
What was Hitler's grand plan to fight on only one front at a time called?
The Schlieffen plan.
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What is West.
What the slave Trade? (Explain why and how the Slave Trade became what it was.)
The Slave trade came about for two reasons, first a complete contempt and racist motivation allowed Europeans to think Africans less than the regular white European and the need for easy cheap labor in the Americas was palpable and led to Spanish dominance.
Name five absolute rulers in Europe.
Louis XIII and Louis XIV of France, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great of Russia, Leopold I and Joseph II of Austria, John V of Portugal, Frederick III of Denmark-Norway, Charles XI and Charles XII of Sweden, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I of England.
Who was Napolean III?
Napoleon III was the nephew of Napoleon I. He was president of the Second Republic of France from 1850 to 1852 and the emperor of France from 1852 to 1870. He gave his country two decades of prosperity under an authoritarian government but finally led it to defeat in the Franco-German War.
What was the Iron curtain?
The Iron curtain was a figurative idiom ised by papers to express the separation of Europe into pro-communist Eastern Europe and pro-democratic West Europe.
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What are Lucky Charms.
What major shift came about as a result of the Thirty Years war in European politics?
The 30 Years war shifted European politics, albeit slowly, away from religious causes and towards more political or national motivations.
What is the Agricultural revolution?
Extra Credit: What was the Putting out system?
The agricultural revolution is the name given to a number of cultural transformations that initially allowed humans to change from a hunting and gathering subsistence to one of agriculture and animal domestications. (According to ScienceDirect.com) In practice, the invention of the Plow revolutionized farming in Europe
What is Realpolitik and who started it?
A system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
Who is Otto von Bismark?
What is the Treaty of Versailles and how did it contribute to the start of WW2?
It codified peace terms between the victorious Allies and Germany. The Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for starting the war and imposed harsh penalties in terms of loss of territory, massive reparations payments and demilitarization.
What company commissioned a commercial with a line that transcribes loosely to "WAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPP"?
What is Budweiser?
Who were Thomas More AND Erasmus?
Extra Credit: What is Rennaissance Humanism?
Thomas More, or Saint Thomas More, served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor in England and was a noted Rennaissance Humanist (1478-1535).
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian who is considered one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance (1966(or 1469????)-1536). He was a Catholic Priest.
Who instituted a Eleven year Tyranny in Enland?
Who is Charles I.
What is the Dreyfus Affair?
The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. It involved a Jewish French Military officer and was such a large cover up that the public were divided for 8 years and nearly sparked a civil war.
What is Existentialism and who was/is it's forerunner?
Extra Credit: What is Marxism?
God, reason, progress are myths, humans live in a meaningless world, alone and isolated. Pushed by Nietzsche.
There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?
This is the world's oldest riddle, dating back to 2000 BC Sommer. They're society regularly tested each other with verbal tricks and fun riddles. This is the oldest written riddle ever found.