Oh my God!
This Augustinian monk believed in “salvation by faith alone.”
Who is Martin Luther?
Popes ruled politically in these central Italian states.
What are the Papal States?
This cataclysmic conflict began with the “Defenestration of Prague.”
What is the 30 Years War?
This deductive thinker wrote: “I think, therefore I am.”
Who is Rene Descartes?
This dreaded disease had largely disappeared from Europe by 1720.
What is the bubonic plague?
This transplanted Frenchman developed the doctrine of predestination.
Who is John Calvin?
This King started a religion to divorce his wife
Who is King Henry VIII?
This young peasant quasi-military leader helped the French defeat England in the Hundred Year’s War.
Who is Joan of Arc?
These two new “isms” took the proletarian view in response to the exploitation of workers during the industrial revolution.
What are socialism and communism?
This 1842 law prohibited all boys and girls under the age of 10 from working under ground.
What is the Mines Act?
This Protestant denomination allowed women to preach and was officially called the Society of Friends .
Who are the Quakers?
In order to gain undisputed control over the empire, this monarch had to prevail over the Pugachev Rebellion.
Who Is Catherine the Great?
This conflict pitted the Valois, Guise, and Bourbon houses against one another in a dynastic conflict for the French throne
What is the War of the Three Henries?
In August of 1789, this social system was abolished by the National Assembly, and freed peasants of their obligations.
What is feudalism?
This is who was “invited” to rule England in the so-called Glorious Revolution when dissatisfaction with James II grew to intolerable levels
Who are William (III) and Mary (Stuart) of Orange?
This evangelical religious reformer founded the Methodist Church in England.
Who is John Wesley?
This Puritan military leader won the English Civil War and imposed a Puritan dictatorship in England.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
When Charles II died with no heir, he left this kingdom to Louis XIV's grandson (Philip Anjou), causing a major war
What is Spain?
This movement demanded universal male suffrage.
Who are the Chartists?
This Catholic doctrine says the bread and wine consumed during the Eucharist becomes the body and blood of Christ in one’s body.
What is transubstantiation?
This Scot was most important in making Calvinism the major faith in Scotland.
Who is John Knox?
This English politique navigated a middle-ground between Protestantism and Catholicism and reduced religious conflict in the realm.
Who is Elizabeth I?
This violent event in Paris on July 14, 1789, inadvertently saved the National Assembly. Paris was now lost to the king!
What is the storming of the Bastille?
This Medieval philosophy of Thomas Aquinas sought to reconcile the science of Aristotle with the writings of the Church.
What is Scholasticism?
Beginning in 1651, these mercantilist laws were passed in England to protect its Atlantic trade from other empires.
What are the Navigation Laws?