Renaissance humanism drew its main inspiration from this.
What is classical languages and literature? (Ancient Greece and Rome)
100
This system emphasizes government intervention to secure a favorable balance of trade and the growth of national reserves of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
100
These two individuals are largely responsible for today's scientific method.
Who are Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon?
100
German princes were allowed to determine the religion of their state as a result of this treaty in 1555.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
100
This resulted in huge population losses in the 1300s-1400s.
What is the Black Death?
200
This inventio spread humanist culture.
What is the printing press?
200
"Religion supplies the pretext and gold the motive," describes the exploration of these two countries located on the Iberian Peninsula.
What are Spain and portugal?
200
This man was the first to provide mathematical formulas supporting the Copernican theory.
Who is Descartes?
200
This war lasted from 1618-1648 and devestated German states' economies.
What is the Thirty Years War?
200
These factors caused the Price Revolution of the Sixteenth Century.
What are steady population growth and rising food costs?
300
In addition to classical sources, northern humanist emphasized these sources, which set them apart from Italian humanists.
What is Christian sources?
300
This man would agree with the statement, "God has once for all determined ... whom he would admit to salvation."q
Who is John Calvin? (Jean Cauvin)
300
This famous philosophe was quoted as saying "I will allow that bodily strength seems to give man a natural superiority over woman; and this is the only solid basis on which the superiority of men over women can be built."
Who is Mary Wollestonecraft?
300
Calvinist opposition to Spanish rule in this country included destruction of Roman Catholic churches' property, demonstrations, civil war, and conversion efforts.
What is the Netherlands?
300
Couples in early modern Europe generally put off marriage until their mid-to late twenties for this reason.
What is they needed to acquire land or learn a trade before they could support a family?
400
This was the most socially acceptable role for a woman during the Renaissance.
What is a patron of the arts?
400
Major Protestant and Catholic leaders of the sixteenth century condemned the Anabaptists because they supported this.
What is complete separation of church and state?
400
This French philosopher believed that organized religion perpetuates superstition and ignorance.
Who is Voltaire?
400
Thousands of French Huguenots were killed in this massacre.
What is St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
400
During the great witchcraft persecution trials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries those most often tried as witches were this type of person.
What is an older woman?
500
The power of the Medici was based on this.
What is the influence and wealth of their bank?
500
This document recognized the rights of French Protestants.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
500
Name the two most famous enlightened despots.
Who are Joseph II and Catherine the Great?
500
This resulted from a combination of new religious ideas and peasant demands and lasted from 1524-1525.
What is the German Peasants' Revolt?
500
These two European states defied the pattern of absolute, centralized governments by the end of the seventeenth century.