The monarch who broke from the Church and began the Anglican Church.
Who is Henry VIII of England?
100
Tacking his criticisms of the Church to the door, he unintentionally started one of the most far-reaching revolutions of all time.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
The palace enlarged by the "Sun King" to house the nobles in his court and the bureaucrats running the state in order to centralize his power.
What is Versailles?
100
The year is 1517.
When was the beginning of the Reformation?
100
The name for the transference of raw materials and diseases between the "old world" and the new.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
200
Controlled the nobility by dispensing privileges to those hanging about him in his palace.
Who is Louis XIV of France?
200
Spent the last decade of his life under house arrest for his heretical support of heliocentrism.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
200
This is the empire encountered by Europeans in what is now Mexico and parts of Central America.
What is the Mexica Empire?
200
The year 1534.
What is the year Henry VIII broke away from the Church; called the English Reformation?
200
The system in which one promises armed support in exchange for land to farm.
What is feudalism?
300
This monarch's path-breaking, long and prosperous reign was followed by civil wars since the monarch died childless.
Who is Elizabeth I of England?
300
This Enlightenment thinker wrote that man is born a blank slate, all ideas are derived from experience, and man has natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
300
This is the empire encountered by Europeans in what is now western South America.
What is the Inca Empire?
300
The year 1618.
What year is the beginning of the Thirty Years War with the Defenestration of Prague?
300
A system of discrimination against a particular religious/ethnic group that has been endemic and often institutionalized into laws throughout the centuries.
What is anti-Semitism?
400
Absolutist monarch who transformed his state into a military one; called the "Soldiers' King."
Who is Frederick William I of Prussia?
400
Among those who signed the death warrant for their King, he became the first non-royal ruler of his country.
Who is The Lord Protector of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Oliver Cromwell?
400
This a confederation of independent states under the control of the Pope from about 500 CE until 1861 when Italy was unified.
What are the Papal States?
400
The year 1545.
What year did the Council of Trent begin the Counter Reformation?
400
An economic policy based on maintaining a favorable balance of power through things such as tariffs that dominated Europe from the 16th through the 18th centuries.
What is mercantilism?
500
Believing he had a duty to maintain religious unity in Western Christendom, after signing the Peace of Augsburg he abdicated and joined a monastery.
Who is Holy Roman Emperor Charles V?
500
A theologian who preached and wrote that each man is "predestined" for salvation or damnation and who is responsible for three major Protestant denominations, including the Presbyterian church.
Who is John Calvin?
500
Existing from the 13th century until the end of World War I, this was once the largest and most wealthy empire on earth.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
500
The years 1337 and 1453.
What are the dates of the Hundred Years War?
500
A form of government in which power of the political authority is limited by law and balanced with the rights and liberties of subjects or citizens.