Renaissance
European Empires
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Europe at War
Life in Early Modern Europe
100
He was the humanist scholar who identified the Renaissance as it happened.
What is Petrarch
100
This English king seized Catholic Church wealth and established his own Protestant Church in the 16th century.
What is Henry VIII
100
It was the best selling book in Europe at the beginning of the 16th century.
What is the Bible
100
Although a woman, she was the prime political strategist for the royalists during the French civil wars.
What is Catherine de Medici
100
For Europeans of the 16th century, this economic activity was the center of peasant life.
What is Agriculture
200
This artist is known for his Pieta, David, and the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
What is Michelangelo
200
This granted Portugal the easter trade route to the Indies as well as Brazil
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas.
200
It was the technological innovation that deeply affected the intellectual debates of the 16th century.
What is Printing.
200
It is the name given to the killing of Huguenots on August 24th, 1572.
What is St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
200
It wasn't until the 1600s that Europe's population had recovered from the devastation of this microbial scourge.
What is Black Death
300
This humanist used historical and philological critiques to expose the Donation of Constantine as a forgery.
What is Valla.
300
This people was conquered by Hernando Cortes.
What is the Aztecs
300
This group of scholars collectively wanted to produce better Christians through education.
What is Christian Humanists.
300
This group pledged its first allegiance to religion rather than to the French Crown.
What is the French Catholic League
300
Because these ores flooded the markets from America, they contributed to the Price Revolution of Europe in the 16th century.
What is Gold and Silver
400
He wrote a book that many business leaders use today called "The Prince"
What is Macchiavelli
400
It was the riches and most powerful of the Scandinavian nations in the 15th century.
What is Denmark
400
His trip throughout England resulted in his writing "In Praise of Folly."
What is Erasmus
400
It was at this huge naval battle that Spain won a decisive victory over the ottomans and kept Europe free from Muslim invasion.
What is Lepanto
400
This powerful landowning group emerged in England below the ranks of the nobility in the 16th century.
What is Gentry
500
This family dominated Renaissance Florence.
What is the Medici.
500
He received his horrific title because of his excessively brutal treatment of the Boyars, or hereditary nobles.
What is Ivan IV.
500
These are people who oftem made journeys to visit religious sites or objects.
What is Pilgrims.
500
It was under his reign that Spain saw the revolt of the Netherlands.
What is Philip II
500
This war attempted to address the many agrarian changes that were transforming villages in what is linguistically called Deutchland.
What is the Peasants' War
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