Renaissance & Expansion
Author of The Prince
Who is Machiavelli?
An Augustinian monk who believed in "salvation by faith alone".
Who is Martin Luther?
This Englishman claimed each person has the right to “life, liberty and property.”
Who is John Locke?
This magnificent 17th-century palace built during the reign of Louis XIV was a good example of baroque architecture.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
Who led the Committee of Public Safety and was prominent during the Reign of Terror?
Who is Robespierre?
War between England and France tat resulted in England's loss of nearly all its French territories.
What is the Hundred Years War?
Peace Treaty signed in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years' War and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
The events of 1688–89 that resulted in the deposition of James II and the accession of his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III, prince of Orange to the throne of England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
His economic system was one in which the market-determined wages and was comprised of free rather than government-constrained enterprise, later known as laissez-faire capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
His code protected private property and the authority of husbands within the family.
Who was Napoleon?
Young peasant quasi-military leader who helped the French defeat England in the Hundred Years War
Who is Joan of Arc
This Catholic country supported the Protestant princes and rulers against the Hapsburgs during the Thirty Years' War.
What is France?
The construction of this city during Peter’s reign may have claimed as many as 200,000 lives.
What is St. Petersburg?
This movement in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Europe was characterized by a reaction against the principles of the Enlightenment. Nationalists loved it!
What is the Romantic Movement?
In 1789, the Assembly set forth in this document that all men were "born and remain free and equal in rights"
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
These two monarchs united Spain in the late 15th c. and established the reconquista.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
This 1517 document criticized the selling of indulgences.
What is the 95 Theses?
Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland after the defeat of King Charles I in the Civil War. He was one of the main signatories on Charles I's death warrant. After the execution of King Charles I, he led the Commonwealth of England.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
This country was divided by its more powerful neighbors (Austria, Russia and Prussia) to restore the regional balance of power in Central Europe among those three countries.
What is the Partition of Poland?
This group claimed, with their Tennis Court Oath, that they would not disband until they developed a Constitution
What is the National Assembly?
This humanistic Renaissance painting by Raphael has Plato and Aristotle at its center.
What is The School of Athens?
This 1598 proclamation by Henry IV allowed toleration for the Huguenots in France.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
This early republic had a decentralized system with a stadholder as leader of each region.
What was the Dutch Republic (the Netherlands)?
Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The march on Versailles began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of October 5, 1789, were nearly rioting over what?
What is the high price of bread?