What is a system of promises that governed the relationships between lords and vassals?
Feudalism
100
What were the long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia?
Crusades
100
Who was the priest who posted a list of 95 complaints about the church?
Martin Luther
100
What do we call the series of events that led to the birth of modern science?
Scientific Revolution
100
What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
1776
200
What is the code of honorable behavior for European knights?
Chivalry
200
What was the document written by English nobles in 1215 that listed rights the king could not ignore?
Magna Carta
200
Who painted the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
200
What was the fleet of 130 ships sent to attack England in 1588 called?
Spanish Armada
200
What was a social gathering held to discuss ideas known as?
Salon
300
How did Nobles/Lords pay their vassals?
Land
300
What word means to cast out from the church?
Excommunicate
300
Who developed a printing press that used movable type?
Johan Gutenberg
300
Who was the scientist who wrote Principia Mathematica in 1688 and developed the Law of Gravity?
Sir Isaac Newton
300
What were considered the three natural rights?
Life, Liberty, Property.
400
Who spread feudalism to England?
William I ; William the Conqueror
400
In which Crusade did Saladin and King Richard I fight?
Third
400
What were three of the four major trade cities in Italy during the Renaissance?
Florence, Genoa, Milan, Venice
400
What is an economic system in which a government controls all economic activity in a country and its colonies to make the government stronger and richer?
Mercantilism
400
Who led the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War in 1642?
Oliver Cromwell
500
Who was the king of the Franks that was made Emperor of the Romans in 774?
Charlemagne
500
SURPRISE! Who is considered to be the "first" Historian?
Herodotus. Pay attention!
500
Where did the Thirty Year's War begin?
Holy Roman Empire ; Bohemia
500
What was the three-pronged trade network between Europe, Africa, and the New World known as?
Triangular Trade
500
What English philosopher who had a major influence on Enlightenment political thought published Two Treatises on Government in 1690?