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100
The painting, seen below, is the best example of what 18th c. French artistic movement.
What is Rococo?
100
The dapper dude featured below is best known for calling himself the "Sun King" and for saying "l'état c'est moi"
Who is Louis XIV?
100
This cartoon shows the Cavaliers and the Roundheads, the main waring factions in this armed conflict.
What was the English Civil War?
100
This foundational theory of the Renaissance stated that curriculum should be based on ancient Greek and Roman philosophies that uphold the value of the individual man.
What is humanism?
100
Caused by rats, this disease was incredibly deadly, taking out 1/4 to 1/3 of Europe's population.
What is the Black Plague?
200
Translated as "irregular pearl", this 16th century artistic movement is best identified by its stark differences between light and dark, religious themes, and strategic use by the Church.
What is Baroque?
200
The man who created this sketch after looking through his telescope and observing the phases of the moon to prove that the Earth revolved around the sun.
Who is Galileo?
200
In 1555, Charles V ended conflict in the Holy Roman Empire by declaring this in this statement.
What is the Peace of Augsburg and "he who rules, his the religion"?
200
The place and attitude of people before the creation of governments. In this place, people had tons of freedom, but limited security.
What is the state of nature?
200
This cartoon shows the three parts of French society which were called what.
What were the First, Second, and Third Estates?
300
Like the French Revolution, this artistic movement used stories from ancient Greece and Rome to communicate honorable values like virtu.
What is neoclassicism?
300
The Spanish royal family.
Habsburg
300
In response to the Moderate Stage of the French French Revolution, Emperor King Leopold and Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm threatened the revolutionaries in this statement.
What was the Declaration of Pillnitz?
300
This is another word for Sir Francis Bacon's scientific method.
What is the inductive method?
300
This event started as a religious one, but then shifted into being a geopolitical one.
What was the Thirty Years War?
400
These two depictions of David represent two different styles of art. Name the styles of art.
What are Baroque and Renaissance?
400
The first and last Stuart king.
Who is James I and James II?
400
Unlike some of the wars that followed, this war was started because a family line died out... and they would not uphold a matrilineal claim.
What was the Hundred Years War?
400
This is another word for Decartes's method of thinking, which is similar to proofs in geometry.
What is the deductive method?
400
This religious reformer agreed with Luther on most points except transubstantiation, the belief that wine and bread are transformed into the body and blood of Jesus Christ during mass.
Who was Zwingli?
500
The artists in this style of art often painted portraits-- both personal and group-- that highlighted secular themes, had a light source from the left, and often included memento mori like the image shown.
Who were the Dutch Masters?
500
The wives of Henry VIII in order.
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
Catherine Howard
Catherine Parr
500
Which came first:
German Peasants Revolt
Peace of Augsburg
Diet of Worms
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
What was Martin Luther's 95 Theses ?
500
According to Catholics, this can be achieved through faith, works, and God's grace.
According to Lutherans, this is achieved through faith and scripture.
What is salvation?
500
A striking feature of the salons, like that of Madame Geoffrin, were that:
a. The clergy were prohibited from coming
b. Philosophes, nobles, and members of the upper middle class intermingledb. Philosophes, nobles, and members of the upper middle class intermingled