Renaissance
This was the first country in Europe to contract the Plague in October 1347.
What is Italy?
In the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572), a Catholic mob killed this group by the thousands.
What are the Huguenots?
He aimed to westernize Russia as its first emperor and established the Table of Ranks, a hierarchical organization of civil services.
Peter the Great
List John Locke's natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
Define epistemology.
What is the theory of knowledge?
Regarded as the most prolific English, Renaissance writer. Born in Stratford
Who is William Shakespeare?
Prussia invaded this region, initiating the Seven Year's War.
What is Silesia?
Name the three Enlightened Absolutists.
Who are Joseph II, Catherine the Great, and Fredrick the Great?
Improved Newcomen's 1712 design for the steam engine. SI unit named after him.
Who is James Watt?
Book that described the nature of witchcraft and the appropriate punishment.
What is Malleus Maleficarum?
Painted School of Athens and Transfiguration
Who is Raphael?
Held between 1545 and 1563, the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church was prompted by the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
This Holy Roman Emperor signed the Peace of Augsburg with the Protestant Schmalkaldic League which agreed that individual states can choose between Roman Catholicism and Lutherism.
Who is Charles V?
This French philosopher proposed the social contract in which individuals give up some of their rights to be governed by the state.
Who is Rousseau?
Descartes's most well-known philosophical statement in latin.
What is cogito, ergo sum? (Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum)
Humanist author of The Praise of Folly. Dutch priest who translated Greek New Testament into Classical Latin.
Who is Erasmus?
Treaty signed in 1648 that ended the Thirty Year's War and gave the Dutch independence from Spain.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
These rulers advocated the throne following the Glorious Revolution and established a constitutional monarchy in Great Britain after agreeing to the English Bill of Rights.
Who are William and Mary?
British agriculturist that introduced selective breeding methods.
Who is Robert Bakewell?
Mother of Elizabeth I. Second wife of Henry VIII. Beheaded in 1536.
Who is Anne Boleyn?
Written in vernacular Italian by Niccolò Machiavelli, this political guide sought to advice Lorenzo de Medici in ruling Florence. The treatise argues that means justify the ends so to speak.
What is The Prince?
This was the turning point of the Hundred Year's War in which France succeeded militarily under the command of Joan of Arc.
What is the Siege of Orléans?
Known as "The Lion of the North" this king led Sweden in the Thirty Year's War and allowed the state to become a major European power.
Who is Gustavus Adolphus?
Explain how European demographics change due to the Industrial Revolution.
*Population growth
*Rise of middle class, artisan class decreased along with the merchant class
*Urbanization
Voltaire's real name
What is François-Marie Arouet?