Renaissance
The artist known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel during the Renaissance period.
Who is Michelangelo
This French monarch famously declared, L'état, c'est moi" ("I am the state").
Who is Louis XIV?
This French queen was famously executed by guillotine during the Revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This treaty, signed in 1648, ended the Thirty Years War and established the principle of state sovereignty in Europe.
What is The Peace of Westphalia?
In 1989, this event signaled the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
The Renaissance art style, characterized by its dramatic use of light and shadow to create a three-dimensional effect, is named after an Italian word meaning "smoky" or "hazy".
What is Chiaroscuro?
This English king was forced to sign the Magna Carta, which limited his power and laid the foundation for constitutionalism.
Who is King John of England?
This Scottish inventor is credited with developing the first practical steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
These Countries were apart of the Triple Alliance formed in 1882.
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
This international organization was created in 1995 to promote free trade among its member nations.
What is the World Trade Organization?
The Dutch philosopher and theologian wrote the book "The Praise of Folly," which is a satirical critique of society and the church during the Northern Renaissance.
Who is Desiderius Erasmus?
This Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have natural rights, including life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This person argued for the separation of powers and individual liberties in his book "The Spirit of Laws".
Who is Montesquieu?
This event in 1962, caused a nuclear standoff in The Caribbean.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This term describes the process of increasing interconnectedness and interdependence among the world's economies, cultures, and populations.
What is globalization?
This philosopher, believed that education and a knowledge of classical texts were essential for the development of an individual's full potential, and that humans had the capacity to excel in every aspect of life.
Who was Petrarch?
This famous document, signed after the Glorious Revolution, limited the power of the English monarch and established parliamentary supremacy.
What is The English Bill of Rights?
This political faction, named for their seating position in the National Convention, advocated for the execution of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution
Who were the Jacobins
This war took place in the mid-1800s, pitting Russia against a coalition of Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia, which upset the Congress of Vienna
What is the Crimean War?
This technological breakthrough in the 1990s revolutionized the way people access and share information on a global scale
What is the World Wide Web?
This artist and inventor, known for the painting "Vitruvian Man" wrote ideas about humanism, individualism, and empirical observation challenging traditional religious beliefs and paved the way for modern science and secularism.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The term for a leader who subordinates religious doctrine to national unity
What is politique?
This Puritan leader led the Parliamentarian army to victory against the Royalists during the English Civil War.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
In 1812, Napoleon led an ill-fated invasion of this country, which ultimately resulted in a disastrous retreat that decimated his Grande Armée.
What is Russia?
This 1957 treaty established the European Economic Community, which would later become the European Union.
What is the Treaty of Rome?