Multiple Choice 7
The French counterpart of Parliament, named after their classes
What is the Estates-General?
Their primary function was to regulate the business activity of a town
What are guilds?
This legal document contained the privileges that a feudal lord granted to a town
What is a charter?
Louis XIV's chief minister
Who is Jules Mazarin?
These certificates granted pardons from the punishment of certain sins
What are indulgences?
Under this pope, the papacy reached its height in power
Who is Innocent III?
Who is Philip IV?
This theory states that God establishes the authority of a ruler
What is divine right?
This group of people wanted to purify the church of practices that reminded them of Roman Catholicism
Who are the Puritans?
This phrase means faith alone?
What is Sola Fide?
This economic system believed that newly found wealth (silver and gold) should benefit the mother country
What is mercantilism?
This English king was forced to sign the Magna Carta
Who is John?
Who is Montesquieu?
This form of government that was prevalent in Western Europe from the ninth to thirteenth centuries
What is feudalism?
Discovered that the planets' orbits were elliptical
Who is Kepler?