A place where souls on their way to Heaven after death to make amends for their earthly sins.
What is purgatory?
100
Explorer who began the conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru.
What is Francisco Pizarro?
100
A concept developed by Isaac Newton during the Scientific Revolution.
What is the law of universal gravitation?
100
The laboring poor and petty traders of France. (**HINT: no body linen)
What is sans-culottes?
100
The first effective locomotive, built by George Stephenson.
What is Rocket?
200
The founder of the Protestant religion.
What is Martin Luther?
200
The capital of the Aztec empire (now Mexico City).
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
Wife of Peter III, who she killed, and great empress of Russia for a time.
What is Catherine the Great of Russia?
200
The two groups of Jacobins within the National Assembly of France who fought for power.
What is the Girondists and the Mountain?
200
Law developed by David Ricardo that stated that wages would remain at subsistence levels due to population growth.
What is the iron law of wages?
300
Protestant prayer book written by Thomas Cranmer.
What is the Book of Common Prayer?
300
A settlement between Spain and Portugal stating that Spain got everything to the West of an imaginary line drawn in the Atlantic Ocean, and Portugal got everything to the east.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
300
What French Enlightenment thinkers (like Diderot and Alembert) came together to write. It showed that human beings could use the process of reasoning to expand human knowledge.
What is Encyclopedia?
300
Louis XV's chancellor who made a docile parlement and taxed the wealthy so that Louis could do what he wanted.
What is Rene de Maupeou?
300
The inventor of the water frame.
What is Richard Arkwright?
400
A religion that believes in predestination.
What is Calvinism?
400
A way that the Spanish legalized slavery in their American colonies. Stated that conquistadors could employ Ameriniansas as agricultural workers.
What is the ecomienda system?
400
A German philosopher who wrote about the origins and groupings of race in On the Different Races of Man, and claimed that the original race was made up of the German people.
What is Immanuel Kant?
400
Had a huge impact on the French Revolution, as well as the rest of Europe, though France did not strive to imitate it.
What is the American Revolution?
400
Limited the workday for children between nine and thirteen to 8 hours.
What is the Factory Act of 1833?
500
An important member of the Ursuline order of nuns.
What is Teresa of Avila?
500
When Spain's population rose, causing severe inflation during the 16th century.
What is the price revolution?
500
The idea of a heliocentric universe that led the man who thought of it to be persecuted by religious institutions, but revered in science.
What is the Copernican hypothesis?
500
Napoleon's bargain with the middle class, which gave equality to all male citizens and security of money and property.
What is the Civil Code of 1804?
500
Country that first began to follow the British example of Industrialization.