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This small group led France through the Terror.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
Niccolò Machiavelli put forward controversial ideas about political authority in this 1532 book.
What is The Prince?
This revolutionary mastered the use of the guillotine perhaps too well — it fell on his neck in 1794.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Don’t let the name fool you — this political body dated from the time of Charlamagne to the Age of Napoleon.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
Johannes Gutenberg’s first printed book, in the 1450s, was this much older text, which remains a best seller.
What is the Bible?
At this sports facility in 1789, the French National Assembly swore to meet until a constitution was in place.
What is the Tennis Court?
Georgio Vasari coined the name of this 15th- 16th-century movement to revive and surpass the ideas and achievements of classical antiquity.
What is the Renaissance?
The 30 Years' War began with what window-related murder attempt in 1618?
What is the Defenestration of Prague?
This region in the Low Countries gained its republican independence in 1648.
What is the Dutch Republic?
Martin Luther kickstarted this movement when he declared that good works had no part in salvation.
What is the Reformation?
Enlightenment philosophers met in these gatherings often hosted by noblewomen.
What are salons?
Joseph II and Catherine the Great were among this group of 18th- and 19th-century leaders who sought to combine lessons from the rule of Louis XIV with those from writers like Voltaire.
Who are enlightened absolutists?
This Stuart king was beheaded in 1649.
Who is Charles I?
Renaissance Italy was dominated by political entities with this hyphenated name.
What are city-states?
You’ve been learning about English Calvinists since elementary school: you knew them by this name.
Who are Puritans?
The Catholic Church formed a response to the Reformation at this twenty-year meeting, which started in 1545.
What is the Council of Trent?
Your answer to this question should share the name of Immanuel Kant’s 1804 essay seeking to clarify this intellectual movement.
What is Enlightenment?
This Franciscan friar campaigned for a “bonfire of the vanities” — before his own body was torched in 1498.
Who is Girolamo Savonarola?
Catherine the Great confined the Jews of Russia to this region.
What is the Pale of Settlement?
This treaty allowed princes in the Holy Roman Empire to makes their states Catholic, Lutheran, or Calvinist
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
Luther was called to recant his teachings at this imperial meeting.
What is the Diet of Worms?
This ideology of individual rights gained prominence as the power of the bourgeoisie grew.
What is liberalism?
Henry VIII had this number of his 6 wives killed.
What is two? (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.)
The future emperor of France never lost this Italian accent from growing up on this island.
What is Corsica?
Religious communities in the Ottoman Empire could (somewhat) rule themselves in this system.
What is the millet system?