Similar to the Mandate of Heaven, a belief that a King's authority to rule comes from God.
What is Divine Right?
This body of water connects all of the relevant geographical locations from this unit.
What is the Mediterranean sea?
A historical period defined by a revival of Greek and Roman culture and renewed appreciation for the arts.
What is the Renaissance?
The famous book written by Niccolo Machiavelli.
What is The Prince?
The Mediterranean location of Italy made it the perfect location for this action which increased its wealth.
What is trade?
This term refers to the language spoken by the common people. Except in the Roman Empire, it is not Latin.
What is the vernacular?
An Ancient Greek thinker who came up with the geocentric model.
Who is Ptolemy?
Rather than starting kindergarten, when Louis XIV was this many years old he became the King of France.
What is 5 years old?
Louis XIV made all the nobles move to this building.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
The Protestant Reformation was a movement to reform this powerful institution.
What is the Catholic Church?
The unrestricted power of a monarch.
What is Absolutism?
The inventor of the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
A Renaissance painter, sculptor, and inventor, perhaps best known for painting the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
According to Machiavelli, a ruler should have no thoughts other than this.
What is war?
The target audience of Niccolo Machiavelli's most famous work.
Who are rulers?
Martin Luther's profession.
What is a monk?
The belief that God decided who will end up in Heaven and Hell at the beginning of time. A key belief of Calvinism.
What is Predestination?
Galileo's punishment decided by Church Officials.
What is house arrest?
This man was put on trial by the Catholic Church for teaching the heliocentric model.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Absolute monarchs were often trying to be like this famous dictator.
Who is Julius Caesar?
The name for the council that called for Martin Luther to recant his teachings.
What is the Diet of Worms?
Johannes Kepler said that planets orbit the sun in these kind of orbits, not circular ones.
What are elliptical orbits?
The Russian name for a king.
What is the Tsar (or Czar)?
This says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
Martin Luther's punishment for refusing to recant his 95 Theses.
What is excommunication?