Renaissance
Which Italian city-state was home to a very large number of Renaissance writers and artists?
Florence
Opposition to priests and other church officials was called...
anticlericalism
Which belief system regarded God as a watchmaker who does not involve himself in human affairs?
Deism
Which estate included members of the clergy?
First
What country was the source of the opium that the British sold in China?
India
Which Dutch humanist wrote "In Praise of Folly"?
Desiderius Erasmus
Which council was held in order to define the terms of the Counter-Reformation?
The Council of Trent
Cardinal de Richelieu served which French king during his minority?
Louis XIV
Which islands were the sites of Napoleon's exiles?
Elba and St. Helena
Jeremy Bentham introduced the Principle of _______________.
Utility
Which female artist painted "Judith Slaying Holofernes"?
Artemisia Gentileschi
Henry VIII founded which Protestant church?
Anglican
Which philosopher argued that humans are violent and undisciplined in a state of nature?
Thomas Hobbes
What document did the Abbe de Sieyes write to criticize the organization of France's ancien regime?
"What is the Third Estate?"
Which two European countries did not experience a rebellion or revolution in 1848?
Russia and Great Britain
Which Pope put his illegitimate children into positions of power in Italy?
Alexander VI/Rodrigo Borgia
French Protestants mostly consisted of what group?
Huguenots
Which English monarch lost his throne in the Glorious Revolution?
James II
Which event was intended to return Europe to its pre-Napoleonic state?
The Congress of Vienna
What did the Berlin Conference succeed in preventing?
War between the European powers for imperial rights in Africa
Who served as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory?
Virgil
Meister Schmidt worked as executioner in which German city?
Nuremberg
Voltaire wrote a novel that satirized the notion that we live in the best of all possible worlds-- what was its title?
Candide
The Code Napoleon restricted the rights of which group of people?
Women
Which king ruled France during the July Monarchy?
Louis Philippe I