Established the Anglican Church and himself as the Supreme Head of the Church of England in 1534.
Who is Henry VIII
100
One-third of Europe's population died by disease in a three-year span.
What is the Black Death of 1348-1351.
100
Published his 95 Theses against Church abuses and in essence began the Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther.
100
A social system in which nobles owed allegiance to a sovereign in return for land which they then parceled out to knights and lesser lords who owed them service, and they in turn had serfs work the land.
What is Feudalism
100
A group of small states and municipalities loosely allied under one elected leader, this area saw three-hundred years of wars before becoming independent countries.
What is the Holy Roman Empire
200
Published 95 Theses against Indulgences (among other flaws of the Church) effectively beginning the Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther.
200
A disease that traveled from the Old World to the new World, decimating much of the indigenous population.
What is smallpox.
200
Expulsion of Jews, especially those who converted to Catholicism, from Spain.
What is the Inquisition
200
An invention that led to the rapid spread of ideas and fostered increased literacy and learning.
What is the Printing Press of Johann Gutenberg.
200
An very wealthy family in the independent city-state of Florence credited with funding the artistic Renaissance.
What is the Medici Family.
300
The Sun King who controlled his nobles in his lavish palace of Versailles.
Who is Louis XIV of France
300
Longest war in European History, it raged from 1337 - 1453.
What is the Hundred Years' War
300
A period of philosophical thought that rejected faith as the basis for truth.
What is the Enlightenment
300
A transfer of raw resources, new crops, and diseases that went hand-in-hand with the conquest of the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange.
300
A group of French thinkers who began to meet in salons in Paris but whose ideas spread throughout much of Europe.
Who are the Philosophes
400
"Soldier King" who imposed absolutist rules on the military and society in Prussia.
Who is Frederick William I
400
Began with the beheading of the King, established a theocracy, and sent Catholicism underground for a while.
What is the English Civil War.
400
Begun with Italian thinkers, it emphasized the study of Classical learning to achieve an understanding of human nature.
What is Humanism
400
The trade of resources, manufactured goods, money, and slaves that involved shipping around the globe.
What is the Global Economy
400
The empire in the New World defeated by the Spaniards under the leadership of the conquistador Hernado Cortez.
What is Mexica
500
Forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215, limiting a sovereign's rights and privileges by written law for the first time.
Who is King John of England
500
The most devastating war in Europe (until World War I surpassed it), was fought in four distinct stages mostly in the German states.
What is the Thirty Years' War
500
A Theological rationalism that advocated for belief in God on the basis of reason without the need for revelation or organized religion.
What is Deism
500
A government headed by a sovereign who holds the right to govern by divine intention.
What is Absolutism.
500
King beheaded for his attempt to establish Absolutism in England.