Italian explorer sailing for Spain, sailed west looking to reach Asia but landed instead in the Caribbean Islands, becoming the first European to do so.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
a pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin
What is an indulgence?
100
an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit
What is capitalism
100
This French King was most powerful and longest tenured ruler in French history
Who is Louis XIV?
200
government that is ruled by a few rich nobles
What is aristocracy?
200
Explorer who was the first to realize that South America wasn’t Asia but in fact a “new world”
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
This English King created his own church after the Pope refused to annul his marriage.
Who is Henry VIII?
200
the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
200
Jacobin leader that gained power in France in 1793. Wanted to create a “republic of virtue” by wiping out every trace of France’s past.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
300
Type of government practiced in England.
What is Constitutional Monarchy?
300
Explorer who sailed around the southern tip of South America. Died in the Philippines, but his surviving crew became the first people to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
This invention helped spread Reformation ideas throughout Europe and beyond.
What is the Printing Press?
300
This Russian Leader felt the need to have a warm water port year round in order to trade and compete with the rest of the world commercially.
Who is Peter the Great (Peter I)?
300
Financial advisor for Louis XIV, believed highly in the concept of mercantilism
Who Jean-Baptiste Colbert?
400
The Estates General is a representative body from this country.
What is France?
400
Spanish conquistador that is known for conquering the Aztec Empire in present day Central Mexico.
Who is Hernando Cortez
400
This was the list of grievances posted on the door of Luther's Church in Wittenberg.
What is the 95 Thesis?
400
Africans eventually replaced this group as the labor force for Europeans in the New World
What are Native Americans?
400
This Protestant sect believed in the concept of predestination, the doctrine that God has decided who will be eternally saved.
What is Calvinism?
500
Many monarchs believed in this idea that their power came directly from God.
What is divine right?
500
Before it became New York, the Manhattan Island area was under the control by this European Country
What is the Netherlands?
500
This declaration said that Luther was a heretic and banned him from the Holy Roman Empire?
What is Edict of Worms?
500
an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold or silver and by selling more goods than they bought
What is mercantilism?
500
Many of the ideas portrayed in the American Declaration of Independence, took influence from this Enlightenment Thinker.