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100
When armies of Christians from Western Europe responded to Pope Urban II's plea to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land
What are the Crusades?
100
Invented the Printing Press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
100
Founded the Benedictine Monks.
Who is Benedict?
100
A drawing method that shows how things appear to get smaller as they get further away, converging towards a single 'vanishing point' on the horizon line.
What is the single point or one point perspective?
100
Period known as rebirth of arts and culture
What is Renaissance?
200
Created by Henry VIII and is also known as the Church of England.
What is the Anglican Church?
200
Painted the Mona Lisa and was considered a Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
200
One of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 30-60% of the population in Europe in the years 1346–53.
What is The Black Death?
200
The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
What is Feudalism?
300
Beginning event is often seen as Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses to the church door at Wittenberg.
What is the Reformation?
300
Prince of humanism who helped begin the renaissance in Northern Europe.
Who is Erasmus?
300
Was found guilty of heresy at the Council of Worms.
Who is Martin Luther?
300
The native language or native dialect of a specific population.
What is vernacular language?
300
The astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System
What is the Heliocentric system?
400
Meeting at which the Counter Reformation began.
What is the Council of Trent?
400
A Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center.
Who is Copernicus?
400
Characterized by flying buttresses and stain glass windows.
What is Gothic Architecture?
400
A series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the rulers of the Kingdom of France, for control of the Kingdom of France.
What is Hundred Years Wars?
500
A long series of wars and battles between the Christian Kingdoms and the Muslim Moors for control of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
What is the Reconquista?
500
King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the early Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France, Germany and the Low Countries. Empire was called the Carolingian Empire.
Who is Charlemagne?
500
Founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola and noted for its educational, missionary, and charitable works - often regarded by many as the principal agent of the Counter-Reformation.
Who are the Jesuits?
500
The emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed views of society and nature.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
500
The study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries - emphasized importance of individuals.
What is Humanism?
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