People
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100
Invented the printing press.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
100
A religious group that has broken away from an established church.
What is a sect?
100
People who take financial risks and start their own businesses to make profits.
What is entrepreneur?
100
The belief that a monarch's authority comes directly from God.
What is divine right?
100
The term for soldiers for hire.
What is mercenary?
200
Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
200
To take land from another nation.
What is annex?
200
A ruler with complete authority over the government and people.
What is absolute monarch?
200
Type of government in which a king rules alongside Parliament.
What is a limited monarchy.
200
The everyday language of the ordinary people.
What is the vernacular?
300
He determined came up with the theory of gravity and determined that gravity keeps the planets in orbit.
Who is Issac Newton?
300
The belief that God has already determined who is going to heaven and who is going to hell.
What is predestination?
300
A form of government run by religious leaders.
What is a theocracy?
300
A series of complaints written about the Catholic Church and nailed to the door of a church.
What are the 95 Theses?
300
A possible explanation to be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
400
He wrote a book about how rulers gain and keep power. Two part answer: Who is the author and what is the name of the book?
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli and what is "The Prince."
400
Term for French Protestants.
What is Huguenot?
400
A type of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few people.
What is oligarchy?
400
The age of great change marked by a renewed interest in classical learning and the arts.
What is the Renaissance?
400
Term for an economic system that encourages private ownership of business.
What is capitalism?
500
Started a theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland. One key piece of the religion is the belief in predestination?
Who is John Calvin?
500
The principle that all government power comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
Economic policy based on a nation exporting more goods than it imports.
What is mercantilism?
500
The humanist from Northern Europe wrote about his vision of an ideal society, in which people live in peace and harmony.
Who is Sir Thomas More?
500
This 1598 policy was put in place by Henry IV of France to ensure that French Protestants would not be persecuted.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
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