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Renaissance
Age of Expl.
Reformation
Wars of Religion
& Age of Abs.
Scientific Revolution
100
This term is used to describe the spoken language of an area.
What is the vernacular?
100

The treaty of Tordesillas was between which two countries.

What is Spain and Portugal?

100

This term defines people who opposed the Catholic Church's teachings and views.

Who are Protestants?

100
These two major sects formed from the Roman Catholic Church and would eventually be categorized as "Protestant".
What is Calvinism and Lutheranism?
100
This process created by Sir Francis Bacon, standardized science into a methodical practice of proving theories through experimentation.
What is the Scientific Method?
200

This religious Figure was called the "Father of Humanism".

Who is Petrarch?

200

This country was the first European nation to enter direct trade with the far east and establish colonies.

What is Portugal?

200

This religious sect believed in "predestination", a belief that God had already chosen who was going to heaven or hell.

What are Calvinists?

200
This major event started the religious turmoil in Germany that would eventually lead to the Thirty Years War.
What is The Defenestration of Prague?
200
This Theory of Planetary motion, proposed prior Copernicus's theory of Heliocentrism, explained the movement of heavenly bodies by proposing that they traveled in secondary circles as well as their original orbit around the earth.
What is Epicycle Theory?
300

This Italian political philosopher wrote "The Prince".

Who is Machiavelli?

300

These people benefited from inflation in the 16th century.

Who are merchants?

300

This early church critic was burned at the stake for his early criticism of the Catholic Church.

Who is Jan Hus?

300
This person commanded the Spanish Army sent by Phillip II to seize control of the Netherlands for Spain once more
Who is The Duke of Alba?
300
This Italian Astronomer discovered moons on Jupiter helping to conclusively prove the Theory of Helicentrism.
Who is Galileo?
400

This fictional land presented a revolutionary social order based on communal living and property?

What is Thomas More's Utopia

400

Which country became the leader in trade and commerce during the age of exploration.

What is Spain?

400

The peace of Augsburg was between these two parties.

Who are Charles V and the Schmalkaldic League?

400
This book written by Thomas Hobbes theorized why the common man needed all powerful rulers to maintain order.
What is Leviathan?
400
The new beliefs, theories, and philosophies presented by the scientific revolution brought these into question.
What is religion and devine authority.
500

This Italian Family funded and helped the growth of Renaissance art through their generous patronage.

Who are the Medicis?

500

This trading system linked the New World, Europe, and Africa trough the trading of precious metals, manufactured goods, and slaves.

What is the triangle trade?

500

This Cult of christianity believed that the world contained "sinners". Therefore they should form their own religious community and repeatedly baptize themselves.

Who are the Anabaptists?

500
Cardinal Richelieu acting as the de-facto ruler of France under Louis III from 1607 to 1624 sought out to destroy these three threats to the "Serenity of the State".
What are the position of French Huguenots, the power of the aristocracy, and the independent French governor's power.
500
Sir Issac Newton's theories and findings on the laws of gravity and motion were published in this book.
What is Principia?