Renaissance
This Italian family used their banking wealth to patronize famous artists like Michelangelo
Who is the Medici Family
This monk's 95 Theses in 1517 criticized the Catholic Church's sale of indulgences.
Known as the "Sun King," he famously declared, "L'état, c'est moi" ("I am the state")
Who is Louis the XIV?
He developed the heliocentric model, placing the sun at the center of the universe.
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
This 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years' War and established the modern state system
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
Machiavelli wrote this political handbook advising rulers that it is "better to be feared than loved"
What is The Prince?
This "radical" Protestant group believed in adult baptism and the separation of church and state.
What are Anabaptist?
This 1688 event saw the peaceful replacement of James II with William and Mary in England.
What was The Glorious Revolution?
This philosopher advocated for the "separation of powers" into three branches of government.
Who is Montesquieu?
This intellectual movement applied the methods of the Scientific Revolution to society.
What is the Enlightenment?
This system of exchange brought crops like potatoes to Europe and horses to the Americas.
What is the Colombian Exchange/ Triangular Trade?
The Peace of Augsburg (1555) used this Latin phrase to mean "Whose realm, his religion."
What is some fancy latin saying? (Cuius regio, eius religio)
Peter the Great famously "Westernized" this country, building a new capital on the Baltic Sea.
What is Russia? (St. Petersburg)
He is credited with perfecting the telescope and was tried by the Inquisition for his findings
Who is Galileo Galilei?
These French Protestants were granted religious toleration by the Edict of Nantes.
Who are the Huguenots?
This "Prince of the Humanists" wrote The Praise of Folly to criticize church corruption.
Who is Erasmus?
This Catholic council reaffirmed traditional doctrines and addressed abuses during the Counter-Reformation.
This English document of 1689 limited the monarch’s power and guaranteed basic civil rights.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This "Great" Prussian ruler considered himself the "first servant of the state."
Who is Fredrick the Great?
This 1494 treaty divided the newly "discovered" lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This 1450s invention by Johannes Gutenberg allowed for the rapid spread of Renaissance and Reform ideas.
What is the Printing Press?
This French king converted to Catholicism to end the Wars of Religion, saying "Paris is worth a mass."
Who is Henry the IV (Henry of Navarre)?
This economic theory held that a nation's power depended on its supply of gold and a favorable trade balance.
What is Mercantilism?
Newton’s Principia described this universal force that governs the motion of planets and objects on Earth.
What is Gravity?
This term describes a ruler who uses Enlightenment ideas to strengthen their own absolute power.
What is an Enlightened Absolutist?