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100
This Augustinian monk’s 1517 posting of the 95 Theses sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
The “Sun King” who declared “L’État, c’est moi” and reigned for 72 years.
Who is Louis XIV of France?
BONUS 100: This cardinal handled much of Louis XIV's domestic policy.
100
This 1648 war was ended by the Peace of Westphalia, transforming Europe’s religious map.
What is the Thirty Years’ War?
100
The 1789 storming of this prison symbolized the start of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
100
Tudor queen whose reign (1558–1603) spawned a cultural Golden Age.
Who is Elizabeth I?
100
Dutch post-Impressionist known for “Starry Night.”
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
200
This French theologian led Geneva as a theocracy and codified Reformed Protestantism.
Who is John Calvin?
200
Russian tsar who founded St. Petersburg and forcibly westernized his realm.
Who is Peter the Great?
200
This 1870–71 conflict united Germany under Prussian leadership.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
200
1917 uprising that overthrew the Romanov dynasty.
What is the Russian Revolution?
200
Regent behind the French Wars of Religion and patron of the arts.
Who is Catherine de’ Medici?
200
Cathedral style defined by pointed arches and flying buttresses. 
What is Gothic architecture?
300
Founder of the Society of Jesus in 1540, his order became the spearhead of the Counter-Reformation.
Who is Ignatius of 
Loyola?
300
Spanish ruler whose 1588 naval defeat marked his empire’s decline.
Who is Philip II of Spain?
300
From 1562 to 1598, these clashes pitted French Catholics against Huguenots.
What are the French Wars of Religion?
300
1848 British working-class demand for suffrage rights under a 6-point "contract."
What is Chartism?
300
1792 pamphleteer of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which contradicted the ideas of Rousseau.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
300
Art movement famous for paintings with dramatic contrasts (tenebrism) and Counter-Reformation themes.
What is Baroque?
400
In 1545 he convened the Council of Trent to address Church crises.
Who is Pope Paul III?
400
His clash with Parliament led to the English Civil War and his execution.
Who is Charles I of England?
BONUS 100 - This successor of Charles I led the Commonwealth of England from 1653 until his death in 1658.
400
This 1815 battle at a Belgian village finally defeated Napoleon.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
400
After the Glorious Revolution, these English laws in 1689 firmly limited royal power.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
400
Enlightenment correspondent of Voltaire who reformed Russia.
Who is Catherine the Great?
400
Painted circa 1486, The Birth of Venus exemplifies this art movement's ideals of beauty and mythology.
What is the Italian Renaissance?
500
This "bloody" monarch sought to restore Catholicism in England from 1553–1558.
Who is Mary I of England?
500
First Russian monarch crowned tsar, notorious for his Oprichnina.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
500
This World War II battle fought in the Ardennes Forest in December 1944 and January 1945 was the last major German offensive on the Western Front.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
500
19th-century movement calling for Jewish emancipation and the establishment of a homeland.
What is Zionism?
500
Twice Nobel Prize laureate for pioneering work on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
500
19th-century artistic movement reacting against industrialization by idealizing nature and rural life.
What is Romanticism?
600
Zurich reformer who died fighting Catholic forces at Kappel in 1531.
Who is Ulrich Zwingli?
600
Habsburg archduchess whose succession in 1740 sparked a major European war.
Who is Maria Theresa?
600
1571 clash that halted Ottoman naval expansion in the Mediterranean.
What is the Battle of Lepanto?
600
1968 student and worker uprisings rocked this European capital, challenging authority.
What is Paris?
600
Monarch whose 63-year reign (1837–1901) gave her name to an era.
Who is Queen Victoria?
600
This pioneer of cubism painted an enormous 1937 mural depicting the horrors of a bombing during the Spanish Civil War.
Who is Pablo Picasso?