Renaissance Fair Game
Religious War...What's It Good For?
"Absolute"ly Divine
Enlightenment & Revolution!
The Looooooooong 19th-Century
200

This country took the lead in exploration in the fifteenth century. Prince Henry helped "navigate" this achievement.

What is Portugal?

200

The French Huguenots saw 20,000 of their own perish in this three-day episode of historic violence.

What is the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre?

200

This gout-ridden leader in Spain launched the Armada against his one-time sister-in-law in 1588. It worked out better in the end for her than it did him and he "waddled" away in shame.

Who is Philip II?

200

Have any inquiries into the nature and causes of the wealth of nation? You should probably ask this founder of capitalism and free-trade.

Who is Adam Smith?

200

Feel the sublime! Worship nature! This cultural movement had Europeans "Wandering Above the Sea of Fog" and swooning over "Rain, Steam, and Speed."

What is Romanticism?

400

You definitely wouldn't want less of this author's text "Utopia," especially if you were a Christian Humanist

Who is More?

400

Government and religion - should ever the two conflict? Not so much according to these types of leaders in European history who subordinated theology to political unity.

What are politiques?

400

Louis XIV's view of the monarchy was influenced by his traumatizing experience of the revolt known as this.

What is the Fronde?

400

Major serf uprisings ultimately forced this "enlightened" despot to assure nobles of their rights, but becoming pen-pals with Voltaire and opening up printing presses to Diderot for his Encyclopedia aren't accomplishments to balk at.

Who is Catherine the Great of Russia?

400

This French utopain socialist believed boredom was the biggest problem with industrial living. He desired phalanx communities with personality inventories and switching up labor tasks for the population.

Who is Charles Fourier?

600

This astronomer discovered three laws of planetary motion. One had to do with elliptical orbits.

Who is Kepler?

600

Henry VIII was certainly a "supreme" ruler in England when, in 1534, a desired divorce from this woman also divorced him from the Roman Catholic Church.

Who is Catherine of Aragon?

600

Without this man by his side in the middle-part of his reign, Louis XIV of France could never have maintained a powerful army. After he died, France sunk into financial distress.

Who is Colbert?

600

This Swiss banker also acted as financial advisor to Louis XVI of France prior to the outbreak of revolution in 1789. He warned of major financial crises in his "Compte Rendu."

Who is Jacques Necker?

600

In 1819, fields of protesters gathered in St. Peter's Field in Manchester, England to show their distaste for this set of laws which clearly benefited the conservative aristocracy.

What are the Corn Laws?

800

This "new" monarch would have nobles seeing stars if they didn't agree to end livery and maintenance of their private armies?

Who is Henry VII (Tudor)?

800

In the Treaty of Nonsuch, Queen Elizabeth I of England gave funding to this European territory as it battled an aggressive Spanish onslaught.

What is the Netherlands?

800

Without the groundbreaking work of this "Three Musketeers" villain, France may never have become the model of absolute rule. I'm sure he "intended" to be written about.

Who is Cardinal Richelieu?

800

Between 1792 - 1794, this fear-inducing movement saw heads roll, bread prices fall, and a new de-Christianized calendar.

What is the Reign of Terror?

800

This French chemist and English pioneer of antiseptics helped pioneer the germ theory of disease.

Who are Pasteur and Lister?

1000

This religious reformer of Florence set up a theocratic republic and was burned for his efforts in 1498.

Who is Girolamo Savonarola?

1000

The Thirty-Years' War first erupted in this city within the Holy Roman Empire in 1618. Some Catholics were defenestrated.

What is Prague?

1000

This Stuart King of England was "gloriously" dethroned by his own daughter and son-in-law.

Who is James II?

1000

Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau all supported one of these. They all discuss how much freedom you're willing to give up for protection. We may need lawyers to help set one up today.

What is a social contract?

1000

The site of the First World's Fair in 1851 was called this. It was made entirely of glass and iron.

What is the Crystal Palace Exhibition?