Renaissance and Reformation
Between what years did the renaissance and the reformation take place?
1300-1650
Columbus was originally in search of which continent?
What is ASIA
divine right to rule means that their authority came directly from God
Shifted from simple hand tools to what?
Sources of energy shifted from human and animal power to what?
what is complex machines, steams and electricity
What argument did Southerners in the US use to justify slavery in the 1860s?
States' rights
The renaissance was considered to be the rebirth of what?
the rebirth of the artistic and intellectual cultures
During the 1500s and 1600s, europeans built trading outposts around what ocean?
what is the indian ocean
Napoleon was considered to be a what?
what is a military genius
the industrial revolution opened new opportunities for success and increased what?
increased social mobility
what problem was brought by the emancipation of the serfs?
the serfs were too port to buy the farms allotted to them
The protestant reformation took what from the renaissance and challenged who?
took humanistic ideas and challenged the Church
How many colonies were formed in north america originally?
13
what did the enlightenment thinkers debated what?
New ideas of the role of government and the natural rights of people
why did some workers organize unions?
to improve their working conditions
Which event marked the official reunification of italy?
Who was the King of England when the reformation ideas influenced all of Europe?
In the wake of Columbus's voyages, Spanish conquistadors defeated what two empires and gave Spain a huge empire in the Americas?
the Aztec and Inca
Napoleon was defeated during what battle?
What is the battle of Waterloo
BY 1900 women in Britain and the United States had not yet won the right to
To whom does the word "her" in this statement refer?
"Her reign was the longest in British History."
The Columbian exchanged was responsible for what economic changes in Europe?
What is the Commercial Revolution, the growth of capitalism, and the rise of mercantilism
the U.S Constitution
why had colleges and universities changed their curriculum by the late 1800s?
more people were working in industries that required science and engineering skills.
"Ideas grow quickly when watered by the blood of martyrs."
Nationalism