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100

The monarch who broke from the Church and began the Anglican Church.

Who is Henry VIII of England?

100

Tacking his criticisms of the Church to the door, he unintentionally started one of the most far-reaching revolutions of all time.

Who is Martin Luther?

100

The palace enlarged by the "Sun King" to house the nobles in his court and the bureaucrats running the state in order to centralize his power.

What is Versailles?

100

The year is 1517.

When was the beginning of the Reformation?

100

The name for the transference of raw materials and diseases between the "old world" and the new.

What is the Colombian Exchange?

200

Controlled the nobility by dispensing privileges to those hanging about him in his palace.

Who is Louis XIV of France?

200

Spent the last decade of his life under house arrest for his heretical support of heliocentrism.

Who is Galileo Galilei?

200

Gave Huguenots limited religious freedoms

What is the Edict of Nantes?

200

The year 1688.

What is the Glorious Revolution?

200

Using collected data to come to scientific conclusions. Francis Bacon had large role in normalizing it.

What is Empiricism or Inductive Reasoning?

300

Restored a Conservative order over Europe after the fall of Napoleon

Who is Klemens Von Metternich?

300

This Enlightenment thinker wrote that man is born a blank slate, all ideas are derived from experience, and man has natural rights.

Who is John Locke?

300

Came up with the idea of the "General Will" during the Enlightenment

Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?

300

The year 1618.

What year is the beginning of the Thirty Years War with the Defenestration of Prague?

300

The massive increase in the amount of food produced in Europe starting in the 1600's

What is the Agricultural Revolution?

400

Began the process of Westernizing Russia, partially by fighting in the Great Northern War

Who is Peter the Great?

400

Wrote "Reflections on the Revolution in France." Took a Conservative viewpoint and condemned the violence and anarchy of the revolution

Who is Edmund Burke

400

A "rational" religion in which God was thought of as a type of clockmaker.

What is Deism?

400

The year 1763.

The End of the 7 years war.

400

An economic policy based on maintaining a favorable balance of trade through things such as tariffs between countries that dominated Europe from the 16th through the 18th centuries.

What is mercantilism?

500

Believing he had a duty to maintain religious unity in Western Christendom, after signing the Peace of Augsburg he abdicated and joined a monastery.

Who is Holy Roman Emperor Charles V?

500

A theologian who preached and wrote that each man is "predestined" for salvation or damnation and who is responsible for three major Protestant denominations, including the Presbyterian church.

Who is John Calvin?

500

One of the results of the discovery of New World gold and silver and the return to a money economy.

What is the Price Revolution?

500

An institution that grew to fulfill the demand for labor in New World colonies

What is Slavery?

500

A form of government in which power of the political authority is limited by law and balanced with the rights and liberties of subjects or citizens.

What is Constitutionalism?