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French Revolution
World War I
Reformation
Important Figures
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100
Louis XVI was forced to call a meeting after the Assembly of Notables refused his program of tax reform. What was this meeting called?
What is the Estates General
100
His slogan "Peace, Land, and Bread" helped the Bolsheviks slide into power.
Who is Vladimir Lenin
100
Which king was defeated at the Battle of Lepanto
Who is King Philip
100
Protestant reformer who wrote The Institutes of the Christian Religion
What is John Calvin
100
A system of government supported by the philosophes in which rulers use absolute power to benefit the people
What is Enlightened Despotism
200
Who wrote "a Vindication of the Rights of Women"?
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft.
200
Britain joins France and Russia in a series of agreements in diplomatic and financial means.
What is The Triple Entente
200
Martin Luther wrote this
What is the Ninety-Five Theses
200
English politician and writer who practiced the inductive method
What is Francis Bacon
200
An expansion in trade with the USSR that relaxed tensions between the two countries
What is the Detente
300
England, Spain, Holland, and Sardinia joined Prussia and Austria to form what?
What is the First Coalition
300
Old and new practices of economic and political control
What is Old and New Imperialism
300
Calvinist ideas spread in France
What is Huguenots
300
English scientist and mathematician who wrote Principa
What is Isaac Newton
300
The idea that rulers receive their authority from God and answer only to God.
What is the Divine Right of Kings
400
The declaration issued by Prussia stating that the restoration of absolutism in France was of "common interest to all sovereigns of Europe"
What is the Declaration of Pillnitz
400
A war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque
What is All Quiet on the Western Front
400
Henry the 8th's proclamation of toleration of Calvinism
What is The Edict of Nantes
400
British biologist who wrote the Origin of Species
What is Charles Darwin
400
The belief that there is a natural evolutionary process by which the fittest will survive.
What is Social Darwinism
500
This granted the Catholic Church special recognition as the religion of "the majority of Frenchmen"
What is the Concordat of 1801
500
Alexander Kerensky replaces this with a provisional government
What is the tsar
500
The peace that ensured Germany's pick of a papal religion
What is The Peace of Augsburg
500
Northern Humanist who wrote 'In the Praise of Folly"
What is Erasmus
500
Prosperous land-owning peasants in czarist Russia
What is Kulak