The Renaissance & Reformation
Nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral in 1517
Martin Luther
A political philosopher who argued that absolutism alone could prevent society from lapsing into a dangerous "state of nature"
Thomas Hobbes
This event marked the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868.
The Meiji Restoration
This figure of the new science explained why the planets moved the way they did
Isaac Newton
This philosophical movement emerged out of the Scientific Revolution.
The Enlightenment
A focus on worldly themes instead of religion
Secularism
This artistic style, which emerged out of the Counter-Reformation, sought to overwhelm the emotions through awe-inspiring dimensions and opulence.
The Baroque
A type of Japanese poem with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5
Haiku
In On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Copernicus argued that the earth moved around the sun. This is called...
heliocentrism
True/False: Enlightenment thinkers were anti-spirituality and religion.
False
This conflict proved that the Reformation was a religious movement not a social revolution
The German Peasants' War of 1524-25
Famously forced Russian boyars (aristocrats) to shave their beards
Peter the Great
This system gave religious minority groups in the Ottoman Empire a degree of autonomy to manage their own affairs.
The millet system
Wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"
Mary Wollstonecraft
Name a factor that contributed to the end of the European witch hunts.
Emergence of a more scientific, rationalistic point of view
This Protestant denomination believed in predestination
Calvinism
Under this monarch, the Spanish kingdoms reached the height of their influence and power; however, they struggled to maintain control of the Netherlands throughout their reign.
Philip II
This Tokugawa Confucian thinker sought to clarify traditional social philosophy to better support the shogunate.
Ogyū Sorai
Mary Wollstonecraft was famously critical of this Enlightenment thinker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This eighteenth-century artistic style tended to be moral and didactic
Neoclassicism
The Medici family rose to prominence in which Italian city?
Florence
Maria Theresa lost this territory to Prussia in the War of the Austrian Succession
Silesia
Ottoman religious minority groups enjoyed special privileges so long as they paid the...
Jitza
Famously proclaimed, "crush the infamous thing!"
And for double points, tell me what this individual was referring to
This artistic style emphasized playfulness and secular whimsey.
The Rococo