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Renaissance 1300-1500
The Reformation
The Enlightenment
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This European country is where the Renaissance has it's origins.
What is Italy?
100
This man created his 95-theses a list of questions and propositions for debate.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
Members of this estate consisted of the nobility of France, including members of the royal family, except for the King. Members did not have to pay any taxes.
What is the Second Estate?
100
This event on August 16, 1819 is highlighted by cavalry charging into a crowd that had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.
What is the Peterloo Massacre?
100
This was a series of armed conflicts and political strife between Parliamentarians and Royalists in the Kingdom of England over the manner of its government.
What is the English Civil War?
200
This was political writing by an Italian diplomat and political theorist is an extended analysis of how to acquire and maintain political power.
What is The Prince by Machiavelli?
200
This was an imperial council that was convened to decide the fate of Martin Luther.
What is the Diet of Worms?
200
This period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the The Mountain, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution".
What is The Reign of Terror (The Terror)?
200
These were measures in force in Britain between 1815 and 1846, which imposed restrictions and tariffs on imported grain. They were designed to keep grain prices high to favour domestic producers.
What are the Corn Laws?
200
This was a series of rebellions against royal authority in France between 1649 and 1652. Named after the slingshots used by local street boys.
What is the Fronde?
300
These people were known for the invasion and take over of this city, known to be the Roman Empire capital.
What is the Ottoman Empire and Constantinople?
300
This was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
300
They are the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution
Who are the Jacobins?
300
Defined as the industry that pioneered the Industrial Revolution and was the main example of industrialism emerging to supply the demands of an ever growing market.
What is the textile industry?
300
This was a series of treaties between France and other European powers and another series between Spain and other powers, concluding the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14).
What is Treaty of Utrecht?
400
This Renaissance artists was commissioned by the Medicis to sculpt a realistic depiction of the biblical hero, David. When it was finished it was so scandalous that it could only be displayed in their garden.
Who is Donatello?
400
In 1540 this religious movement, founded by Ignatius Loyola, was recognized as an order by the Pope.
What are Jesuits?
400
This philosopher was exiled a few times and known for using his plays and poems as a means of mocking the Monarchy and the Catholic Church.
Who is Voltaire?
400
was an Act of Parliament which introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England. The vast majority of the working classes, as well as women, were still excluded from voting and the Act failed to introduce a secret ballot
What is the Reform Bill of 1832?
400
A political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler or other authority. A form of government in which all power is vested in a single ruler or other authority.
What is Absolutism or Absolute Monarchy?
500
These Renaissance thinkers embraced the study of art through grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history philosophy and politics.
What are humanists?
500
This officially ended the religious struggle between Lutheranism and Catholicism and allowed Lutherans to worship as they please.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
500
This was an assembly in 1814–15 that reorganized Europe through the preservation of political equilibrium among the powers, and the restoration of old dynasties, driven out after the Napoleonic Wars.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
500
This was a reaction in early 19th century literature, philosophy and religion against what many considered the excessive rationality and scientific narrowness of the enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
500
This was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with lead by William of Orange.
What is the Glorious Revolution?