Renaissance
Which artist/ inventor created the famous Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
Man responsible for the Heliocentric Theory
Nicolaus Copernicus
What was the Enlightenment
questioning traditional ideas about political power and government structure
What is the definition of an absolute monarch
A queen or king having total control/ power
Which city is located in France?
Paris
What was the Renaissance?
Time of artistic, social, political and cultural change in Europe.
Forgiveness from the church/ Release from punishments due for a sin
Indulgence
Man who believed that it was better for leaders to be feared than loved
Nicolo Machiavelli
Which countries had absolute monarchs?
France
Austria (HRE)
Prussia (HRE)
England
Russia
Name the 2 cities in England
Strafford upon Avon
London
Renaissance architecture rejected what style ______ in favor for what ancient styles________
Gothic for ancient Greek & Roman
The belief that there is a god but he doesn't interfere in human lives
Deism
Define Despotism
leader holds total power, and usually uses that power in a cruel or unjust way to hold back the people
What is Divine Right
The belief that monarchs were chosen by god so they are only accountable to god.
Which empire borders France to the East
Holy Roman Empire
Who created the printing press. What did it help spread across Europe
Johannes Gutenberg. Ideas of the Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution
Who was the man who started the Protestant Reformation? What was his list of issues with the church called?
Martin Luther/ 95 theses
Government system where one group of people (usually the wealthy) govern everyone else in society
Aristocratic Democracy
Political, Social, Economic, Religious
Which country controlled the islands in the Mediterranean sea?
Spain
Why did Northern Europe not join the Renaissance movement until way later? Give me one example of a Northern Renaissance AUTHOR
The black death caused a delay in spreading the Renaissance
-Durer, Erasmus, More, Shakespeare, Cervantes
Agreement in 1555 declaring that the religion of each German state would be decided by its ruler.
Peace of Augsburg
Name the major Enlightenment thinkers
Locke
Montesquieu
Hobbes
Rousseau
Explain the FOUR reasons that Absolute rulers became popular in Europe
2.Money from colonies/ age of exploration
3.Weak Church/ Protestant Reformation
4.Nationalism
What is the country that is a peninsula, that is north of the Holy Roman Empire
Denmark