Age of Explaoration
New World/Absolutism
Enlightenment
Revolutions
Napoleon
100

This device always points North and allowed Sailors to accurately Navigate the oceans

The Compass

100

This is the political system in which one ruler holds absolute power

Absolutism

100

This Enlightenment Era thinker was the first to describe the laws of Gravity, being inspired by watching an apple fall from a tree

Isaac Newton

100

This country was victorious after the 7 Years war, but was completely broke, so it tried to tax its American colonists

England

100

This tool was used to cut off the heads of French political opponents during the French Revolution

The Guillotine

200

This explorer thought he found a passage to Asia but really landed in the Bahamas

Christopher Columbus

200

This treaty split the new world between Spain and Portugal

The Treaty of Tordesillas

200

This art movement was a reaction to The Enlightenment and stressed emotion and imagination

Romanticism

200

These 3 musician revolutionized music during the Baroque and Romantic periods (name one)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven

200

This British Admiral defeated the combined Spanish and French Navies at the Battle of Trafalgar

Admiral Horatio Nelson

300

Although he died during the voyage, his expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe

Ferdinand Magellan

300

The mining of this precious metal in Mexico and Bolivia was so brutal that parents would maim their children to save their lives

Silver

300

This invention helped new ideas spread rapidly by making books and written material much faster to produce

The printing press

300

(throwback question) This man inadvertently caused centuries of religious conflict when he nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a church and started the Protestant Reformation

Martin Luther

300

This code was the most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon

The Civil Code

400

When the Venetians partnered with this empire to dominate the spice trade, Venice became one of the richest cities in Europe

Ottoman Empire

400

This was the first permanent English colony in North America

Jamestown

400

This astronomer was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe

Nicholaus Copernicus

400

This country was the first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new American state.

France

400

In his final battle, Napoleon was defeated by this British general

The Duke of Wellington

500

This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around Africa to India

Vasco da Gama

500

This French king was known as the Sun King

Louis the XIV

500

The ideas of this enlightenment Era thinker can be found in the American Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

John Locke

500

The invasion of England by William of Orange, which overthrew James II with almost no bloodshed,is known as this

The Glorious Revolution

500

This man was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety.

Maximilian Robespierre