Political Leaders
Social Significance
Religious Politics
Middle Ages & Renaissance
Teacher's Choice
100
This nationalist leader of Italian unification was also the leader of the Red Shirts.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
100
This Italian family gained fame as a group of Florentine bankers.
Who are the Medici?
100
This man unintentionally started the Reformation in 1517 and started the motions that ended the religious unity and stability in Europe.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
This word is used to describe the spoken language of an area.
What is vernacular?
100
This term by John Locke refers to the "blank slate" of a newborn on which impressions are built.
What is tabula rosa?
200
This Prussian born leader fashioned a federal constitution for the North German Confederation.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
200
It was in this country the art movement Impressionism began.
What is France?
200
This document official granted French Protestants rights in a Catholic nation.
What is the Edict of Nantes?
200
This artist is know for his work The School of Athens.
Who is Raphael?
200
This Russian socialist was assassinated with an ice pick to the back of his head.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
300
This English general and statesman led the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
300
Due to their ability to obtain abortions and divorces, some view this nation as the country with the most women's rights in the 20th century.
What is Russia?
300
This event involved the hurling of Catholic men out of a window by Protestant men and is considered a notable part of the Religious Wars.
What is the Defenestration of Prague?
300
This book served as an etiquette guide for young men of the Renaissance.
What is The Book of the Courtier?
300
The growth of European industry led to an increased demand of these.
What is new sources of raw materials and new markets?
400
After the fall of Cromwell's military dictatorship in England, this king held that "the relationship between the House of Commons and the King had a profound importance for later constitutional development."
Who is Charles II?
400
This Renaissance Italian goldsmith and author was know for his arrogance.
What is Cellini?
400
Protestant leader Elizabeth I defeated this Catholic leader's infamous armada in 1588.
Who is Philip II?
400
The War of the Roses brought this English family to power and the throne.
Who are the Tudors?
400
Men such as Henri Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, and Charles Fourier wrote of ideal societies and are known as this
What are utopian socialists?
500
This political leader emancipated the serfs and introduced some measure of representative government through zemstvos.
Who is Alexander II?
500
This woman led the suffrage campaign for women in Great Britain.
Who is Emmeline Pankhurst?
500
This agreement allowed for each German prince, whether Lutheran, Calvinist, or Catholic, to have independent sovereign power and choose the religion of his territory.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
500
This author exclaimed, "It is then, much safer to be feared than to be loved..."
Who is Machiavelli?
500
This absolute monarch made the statement, "I am the state."
Who is Louis XIV?