Enlightenment
French Rev/Napoleon
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100

When and where did the Enlightenment primarily take place?

1600s- 1700s France & England

100
What was the name of the king that was in charge during the French Rev (before they got their head cut off)

Louis XVI

100

Martin Luther's ideas were spread leading to this reform time period

Reformation

100

Define Sahara

define...

100

When did the Renaissance take place? 

1400-1600

200

Describe what Deists believe (the clockmaker analogy)

That God made the universe, he set it all in motion like a clockmaker winds up the gears of a clock, and then besides that God has no involvement with humans. (The earth ticks on like a clock by itself)

200

Who called the meeting of the Estates-General

King Louis

200

Explain what an indulgence is and why they were an issue

Get out of sin/Hell card, ML thought they were immoral, against the Bible, greedy, and overall corrupt

200

Explain and give an example of patrilineal family lineage

When the family's roots/name/power are traced through the FATHER

200

What writing style is William Shakespeare known for using in his plays and writings?

Iambic Pentameter

300

Which Enlightenment philosopher believed that people have the right to abolish or alter their governments if they are unhappy or treated unjustly?

John Locke

300

This battle was a major disaster for Napoleon...he lost to England and this led to his first downfall

Battle of Trafalgar

300

List three facts about Ivan III

Expanded Russia x3

Ivan the Great

First to use the name czar (sometimes)

300

What did the kingdom of Ghana trade and what did they get in return?

Ghana traded gold for salt

300

Who was Mary Queen of Scots mother?

Catherine of Aragon

400

Who said this quote? “The horrors of the English Civil War convinced him that all humans were naturally selfish and wicked. Without governments to keep order, he said, there would be “war . . . of every man against every man,” and life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

Thomas Hobbes

400

Napoleon led a coup d'etat in France in 1800 and ruled as emperor for the next 14 years... what government body did he overthrow?

The Directory

400

What was the Magna Carta? Why is it important?

Signed by King John of England, it said that the king was NOT above the law

400
What is the most holy site in Islam and what African leader traveled there, giving away so much gold, he dropped the global worth of gold

Mecca, Mansa Musa

400

Describe two philosophes of the enlightenment and their beliefs

Explain...

500

Which philosophe said the following quote? “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

500

This was the last battle Napoleon fought in... and lost. 

Battle of Waterloo

500

What was the capital of the Aztec Empire? List three facts about the Aztecs...

Tenochtitlan... list...

500

Tell me two facts about the ancient Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans

List...

500

List Henry VIII's wives in order and explain what happened to them

  • Catherine of Aragon.  Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. ...
  • Anne Boleyn.  January 1533. ...
  • Jane Seymour. ...
  • Anne of Cleves. ...
  • Kathryn Howard. ...
  • Catherine Parr
  • divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived
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