He had at least 95 reasons for starting the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
Philip II launched this massive fleet to crush the Protestant Reformation in England and the Netherlands
What is the Spanish Armada?
100
This series of hierarchies ordered all aspects of the medieval world.
What is the Great Chain of Being?
100
She held off the advances, personal, martial, and otherwise, of Philip II and preserved England as an independent, Protestant kingdom.
Who is Elizabeth I?
100
He revived the concept of a heliocentric universe in 1543.
Who is Copernicus?
200
These fourteenth-century English heretics tried translating the Bible into vernacular language and believed in salvation through faith alone.
Who were the Lollards?
200
This Swedish general-king saved the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years' War
Who is Gustavus Adolphus?
200
This was the predominant faith in Medieval Europe.
What is Roman Catholicism?
200
This document made England into a constitutional monarchy.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
Applying the methods and lessons of the scientific revolution led to this philosophical concept that all men are born free and equal in a state of nature
What is the social contract?
300
This friar's sale of indulgences incensed Martin Luther.
Who is Johann Tetzel?
300
This Spanish soldier-explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in only two years
Who is Hernan Cortez?
300
This intellectual movement, rooted in a revival of interest in
classical civilization, emphasized secular pursuits.
What is renaissance humanism?
300
This commodity fueled the growth of the British Empire in the 18th Century
What is sugar?
300
These two "scopes" invented in the 17th century became essential tools of the scientific revolution.
What is the telescope and the microscope?
400
This French theologian argued that God determined the fate of your soul from the moment you exist.
Who is John Calvin?
400
This battle represented the turning point of the War of Spanish Succession
What is the Battle of Blenheim?
400
This long process of conquest reunified the Iberian peninsula under Christian rule in 1492.
What is the reconquista?
400
He successfully sued for his freedom in Great Britain and provided a major boost to the abolitionist cause in 1772.
Who is James Sommersett?
400
In this magnum opus, Isaac Netwon argued that
that everything is proveable through mathematics.
What is The Principia Mathematica?
500
This Pope's fondness for chestnuts...among other things...severely damaged the prestige of the Papacy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Who is Pope Alexander VI?
500
She governed France instead of her three incompetent sons and is linked to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Who is Catherine d'Medici?
500
This explorer was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1487.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
500
He's considered to be the mastermind behind the financial revolution.
Who is Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax?
500
This Italian physician is known for making the study of anatomy scientific.