Renaissance
Growth of wealth and trade led to this rebirth, when merchants wanted to showcase their wealth
What is the Italian Renaissance?
Protestant reformer who believed in predestination
Who is John Calvin?
Conquered, and killed King Montezuma and the Aztec
Who is Hernan Cortes?
Forced King Louis to come to Paris
What is the Women's March (on Versailles)?
The lower class/ working class
What is the proletariat?
The Italian Renaissance sought to replicate these classics
What is Ancient (Classical) Greece and Rome?
The complaints Martin Luther had against the Catholic church, posted in Wittenberg, Saxony (Germany)
What are the 95 theses?
Papal decree dividing the (new) world into spheres of influence
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)?
In his 1762 book, The Social Contract, he argued that society corrupted people’s natural goodness and needed to be carefully regulated. Promoted the idea of the General Will
Who is Jean-Jaques Rousseau?
Leader of the Haitian independence movement
Who is Toussaint L'overture?
Humanism, secularism, materialism, individualism, realism, intellectualism
What are themes of the Renaissance?
The catholic response to the reformation
What is the counter-reformation?
Fearing they would lose traditional practices, these nations isolated following European contact in the 14th and 15th centuries
What are China, Japan, Korea?
Agreement among the Third Estate to not leave until they have a new constitution. Renamed themselves the National Assembly
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Father of German nationalism. "Blood and Iron"
Who is Otto Von Bismarck?
Helped expand the ideas of the Renaissance
What is the printing press?
The Peace of Augsburg (1555) granted this to the princes in the Holy Roman Empire
What is choose their own sect of Christianity/ religion (Protestant or Catholic).
Religious toleration also acceptable
Fabulous palace outside of Paris, that showed the strength and wealth of the Sun King
What is the Palace of Versailles?
Spanish absolute monarch that fought in numerous wars, and lost the Spanish Armada to Queen Elizabeth
Who is Philip II?
What is Zionism?
Painter of the Mona Lisa
Who is Da Vinci?
This officially made England protestant (following the reign of a Catholic queen)
What is the Elizabethan Settlement?
Set up a colony in modern day South Africa, had the ability to wage war and issue money. Participated in the slave trade
What is the Dutch East India Trading Company?
Napoleon's attempt for European economic reform, aimed to limit trade with England
What is the Continental System?
Conducted the "concert of Europe"
What is the Congress of Vienna OR Who is Klemens von Metternich?