Coin & Consequence
Faith, Minds, & Microscopes
Signed, Sealed, & Delivered
Flags & Footprints
Famous Last Words
FINAL JEOPARDY
200
17th-century British laws enforcing mercantilist trade.
What are the Navigation Acts?
200
Formulator of the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
1494 line dividing Iberian claims in the New World.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
This Italian captained a 1492 voyage that reached the Caribbean under Spanish colors.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
“I think, therefore I am.”
Cogito ergo sum.
Who is René Descartes?
200
Married to a French king, her brothers were Holy Roman emperors, complicating the political landscape during the Wars of Religion.
Who is Catherine de’ Medici?
400
18th-century shift to mechanized factories and mass production.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
18th-century intellectual movement celebrating reason.
What is the Enlightenment?
400
1555 settlement letting German princes choose their religion.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
BONUS 100: This military and political alliance formed in 1531 by Protestant princes and cities in the Holy Roman Empire resisted Catholic Emperor Charles V and his efforts to enforce Catholicism
400
First to sail directly from Europe to India in 1498.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
400
"I am the state."
L’État, c’est moi.
Who is Louis XIV?
400
In 1848, revolutions broke out in dozens of European capitals, but this conservative Austrian diplomat symbolized the forces that quickly suppressed them.
Who is Klemens von Metternich?
600
1948 U.S. aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
600
His 1798 essay warned population would outgrow resources.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
600
1648 agreements ending the Thirty Years’ War.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
600
1602 charter created the world’s first multinational company.
What is the Dutch East India Company (VOC)?
600
“The ends justify the means.”
"It is better to be feared than loved."
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
600
This 1916 battle on the Western Front resulted in over 1 million casualties and symbolized the horrors of trench warfare.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
800
1970s syndrome of rising inflation and unemployment.
What is stagflation?
800
1776 work founding classical economics.
What is Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith?
800
1815 gathering that restored Europe after Napoleon.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
800
Site of England’s first permanent North American colony (1607).
What is Jamestown?
800
“An Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent.”
Who is Winston Churchill?
1000
1992 pact that set criteria for the Euro, the common currency for 20 of the 27 members of the European Union.
W
hat is the Maastricht Treaty?
1000
Voltaire’s favored faith, opposing church dogma.
What is deism?
1000
1938 pact ceding the Sudetenland to Germany.
What is the Munich Agreement?
1000
1884–85 gathering that partitioned Africa among European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
1000
“The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches… but by blood and iron.”
Who is Otto von Bismarck?