Protestant Reformation
Age of Exploration
Gunpowder Empires
Industrial Revolution
French Revolution
100
Who is this and what is he doing?
Martin Luther is nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Church of Wittenberg
100
Who traveled these voyages?
Christopher Columbus
100
Ottoman sultan Mehmed II took over the last remnant of the Byzantine empire when he conquered ______________________ (city).
Constantinople
100
When and where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
Great Britain in the late 1700s
100
In the Ancien Regime, French society was divided into three social classes or estates. Identify the kind of people that made up each estate and label them first estate, second estate, and third estate.
First estate - church officials, Second estate - the aristocracy/nobles, Third estate - the commoners, (merchants, peasants, farmers and artisans)
200
"As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs."
To which church practice is this jingle from the monk Johann Tetzel referring?
indulgences
200
He was the first Portuguese to reach India by sailing around Africa.
Vasco da Gama
200
who are they?
Janissaries - the elite guard of the Ottomans
200
He improved the steam engine so it could power factories and machines.
James Watt
200
Why did King Louis XVI convene the Estates-Generale in May 1789?
To have delegates from each estate vote on policies that would resolve France's grave economic crisis.
300
Identify the name of John Calvin's doctrine which held that God determined in advance who would be saved and who would be damned.
predestination
300
Led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
300
He founded the Safavid empire and imposed Shia Islam on the people to unify them.
Shah Ismail
300
Built the first paddle-wheel steamboat, the Clermont, in 1807.
Robert Fulton
300
During the period known as the "_________________" people who were still sympathetic to the idea of having a limited monarchy were deemed enemies of the revolution. They were sought out and eliminated to protect the new government.
The Reign of Terror
400
In order to marry Anne Boleyn, ______________ broke with the Roman Catholic Church in Rome and instead established the Church of England making himself the head of this church.
King Henry VIII
400
Conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
Hernan Cortes
400
What is this building? Under which ruler and empire was this built?
This was the Taj Mahal and it was built by the Mogul ruler Shah Jahan.
400
He developed a process called puddling that produced a better quality of iron in the 1780s
Heny Cort
400
Which document stated the following:
"The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious rights of man: every citizen can therefore freely speak, write, and print . . ."
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
500
This Protestant group believed in adult baptism, equality among believers, and complete separation of church and state.
The Anabaptists
500
After luring Atahualpa, the Inca emperor, into a meeting, _______________ took him hostage, demanded a massive ransom of gold and silver, and even after the ransom was delivered, had Atahualpa strangled and later garroted, effectively ending Inca leadership and allowing the Spanish to take control of the empire.
Francisco Pizarro
500
Which Mughal ruler practiced religious toleration?
Akbar the Great
500
The first true railroad, encouraged investors to link by rail the rich cotton-manufacturing town of Manchester with the thriving port of _____________, a distance of 32 miles
Liverpool
500
Who said the following, "Virtue without terror is fatal; terror without virtue is powerless."
Maximilien Robespierre