Renaissance and Exploration
Reformation and Religious Wars
State Building and Absolutism
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This family, based in Florence, were major patrons of Renaissance art.

Medici Family.
100

Nailed to a door in Wittenberg

95 Theses

100

The reign of this monarch was marked as the model of Absolutism in France.

Louis XIV
100

This medieval system organized land into strips and rotated crops to preserve soil fertility.

Three-Field system.

100

Spanish friar, priest, and chronicler known for his advocacy of the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Americas during the 16th century.

Bartolome de las Casas

200

This 1494 treaty split the world between two nations, Spain and Portugal.

Treaty of Tordesillas

200

This reformer, active in Switzerland, believed in predestination and formed a strict theocracy in Geneva.

John Calvin.

200

Cardinal Richelieu, advisor to Louis XIII, strengthened royal authority by undermining this group's political power.

Huguenots/Nobility

200

Early experimentation with breeding livestock for desirable traits began during this period.

Selective Breeding

200

This innovation, made prominent by its use during the reformation, was involved heavy with paper

The Printing Press
300

This Portuguese prince was known for sponsoring expeditions along the West African coast, earning him the name "The Navigator".

Prince Henry "The Navigator"

300

The Catholic Church reaffirmed doctrine and reformed practices at this Council.

Council of Trent.

300

The English Bill of Rights limited royal authority by cementing what principle?

Parliamentary Sovereignty or the Monarch can not rule without Parliament
300

This style of architecture, revived during the Renaissance, emphasized symmetry, columns, and domes inspired by ancient Rome.

Classical architecture

300

The English King executed during the English Civil War

Charles I

400

This 15th-century humanist translated the New Testament into Greek and emphasized Christian Humanism.

Desiderius Erasmus
400

This 1398 edict granted limited toleration to French Protestants.

Edict of Nantes

400

This Spanish Monarch ruled during the height of Habsburg power and faced military and economic challenges, including the Dutch Revolt.

Phillip II

400

This 16th-century agricultural innovation involved enclosing common lands to increase productivity.

Enclosure Movement

400

This economic theory held that a nation's power depended on its accumulation of precious metals and a favorable balance of trade, leading to colonial expansion and protectionist policies.

Mercantilism

500

This English scholar and humanist wrote Utopia, criticizing political corruption and outlining an ideal society influenced by Northern Renaissance values.

Thomas More.

500

The Defenestration of Prague in 1618 sparked which major European conflict?

Thirty Years War

500

One way the Thirty Years' War influenced state building in Central Europe.

Strengthened some states like Brandenburg-Prussia while weakening the Holy Roman Emperor's Centralized Authority.

500

This 17th-century Dutch innovation involved reclaiming land from the sea using windmills and dikes.

Polder reclamation.

500

This 1572 event in France saw the targeted massacre of thousands of Huguenots and deepened the religious divide during the French Wars of Religion.

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre