Renaissance and Reformation
Scientific Revolution
Age of Exploration and Early Americas
Absolutism and the Enlightenment
Miscellaneous
100

Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Sanzio, and Michelangelo Buonarroti are all examples of...?

What are Renaissance artists?

100

Descartes is known for this famous quote.

What is "I think, therefore I am"?

100

These are the 3Gs of the Age of Exploration.

What are Gold, Glory, and God.

100

He was the French king who built the palace of Versailles.

Who was Louis XIV?

100

He was his "most Catholic majesty".

Who was Philip II of Spain?

200

Martin Luther believed salvation could be achieved through this.

What is faith?

200

He developed the heliocentric theory of the solar system.

Who was Copernicus?

200

Quipu was a system of...?

What is knotted string?

200

Voltaire is associated with which two freedoms?

What are religion and speech?

200

How did the English Reformation differ from the Reformation in the rest of Europe?

The English Reformation was rooted in politics rather than religious ideology.

300

This term refers to a person who is accomplished in many fields. Da Vinci is a prime example.

What is Renaissance Man?

300

He disproved the Ptolemaic system by showing the heavenly bodies are made of solid mass rather than light.

Who was Galileo?

300

Unlike the other civilizations we learned about, the Inca did not have this type of system.

What is writing?

300

This was Peter the Great's main goal for Russia.

What was "westernization"?

300

This invention helped to spread ideas throughout the time periods we discussed this quarter.

What was the printing press?

400

This group came up with Catholic doctrine during the Counter-reformation.

What was the Council of Trent?

400

He developed the 3 laws of motion.

Who was Isaac Newton?

400

Hieroglyphs in Palenque describe the accomplishments of Pacal, a ruler of the...?

Who were the Maya?

400

Montesquieu's separation of powers influenced which fundamental system of the U.S. federal government?

What is checks and balances?

400

The Chavin culture influenced the Nazca culture in which major way?

What is their style of pottery?

500

He criticized the Catholic Church for putting too much emphasis on external expression of religion such as pilgrimages, fasts, and relics.

Who was Erasmus?

500

He developed the scientific method.

Who was Francis Bacon?

500

The Triple Alliance which combined three city-states to rule from the Atlantic to the Pacific and as far south as the Guatemalan border was associated with which civilization?

Who were the Aztec?

500

Which event in 17th Century England laid the foundation for a constitutional monarchy?

What was the Glorious Revolution?

500

These two Enlightenment thinkers wrote about their idea of a social contract between the people and the government.

Who were Hobbes and Rousseau?