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Renaissance
Religious Wars
Art
Industrial Revolutions
Revolutions
100
Cultural center of Italian Renaissance
What is Florence?
100
Has been called the "last war of religion"
What is the Thirty Years War?
100
Subjects northern Renaissance artists focused on
What is peasant life and/or portraits?
100
Invented by Eli Whitney to increase the efficiency of cotton as a source of textiles
What is the cotton gin?
100
James II fled when William and Mary arrived in England to take his place, revolution where not a single drop of blood was shed and constitutional monarchy began
What is the Glorious Revolution?
200
Most famous dynasty of merchants and bankers who were patrons of art
What is the Medici family?
200
French protestants that were persecuted by the catholic majority
What are Huguenots?
200
Art style used as an instrument of the counter reformation and the term literally means "imperfect, grotesque, or absurd"
What is Baroque?
200
Invention that started the first Industrial Revolution
What is the steam engine?
200
Oliver Cromwell led the roundheads against the Cavaliers led by Charles I and won, leading to the Commonwealth under Cromwell
What is the English Civil War?
300
Man who personified the idea of a "Renaissance Man"
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
Allowed German princes to choose if their subjects would follow Lutheranism or Catholicism
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
300
Attempt to represent artistic matter truthfully without artificial elements. Focused on every day life.
What is realism?
300
Used realism in novels to critique the industrial revolution
Who is Charles Dickens?
300
Ended French Revolution with a coup d'etat in 1799 and seizes control of French government
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
400
Wrote, "the ends justifies the means" and to rule without moral judgement
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
400
Treaty that reinstated the German princes could choose their religion, revoked Edict of Restitution, made Switzerland and Holland independent, gave France, Sweden, and Brandenburg territory, and severely limited power of Holy Roman Empire and Hapsburgs
What is the Peace of Westphalia
400
Focused on emotion, untamed nature. Reaction to Industrial Revolution
What is Romanticism?
400
Country that did not become industrialized until end of 19th century
What is Russia?
400
Leader of the Jacobins during the French Revolution, known as the "great orator", pushed for execution of the king and queen, and was eventually guillotined himself
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
500
Book written by Sir Thomas More criticizing the abuses of various institutions and offered blueprint for a perfect society
What is Utopia?
500
Phase of the Thirty Years War where Gustavus Adolphus entered the war on the protestant side and was killed after decisive victories
What is the Swedish Phase?
500
Ornate and creamy pastel colors asymmetrical designs, curves, gold
What is Rococo?
500
World's first industrial fair held in Britain in 1851
What is the Great Exhibition
500
Hungarian liberals demand and get their own legislature
What is the Austrian Revolution of 1848?