The Protestant Reformation
Absolute and Parliamentary Monarchies
Thought Revolutions
Society and Economics
Random Facts
100
The years between the mid-1400s and the late 1700s were a time of political, religious, intellectual, and socioeconomic transformations
What is Europe?
100
The power structure of the European nation states changed in ____
When is the 1500s?
100
Thinkers moved away from the intellectual orthodoxy of ____
What is the Middle Ages?
100
The economic philosophy that advocated strict state control over economic activity and the exploitation of colonies for raw materials and the reselling of these raw materials as manufacture goods.
What is mercantilism?
100
The Catholic Church reformation cause the ____
What is the baroque period?
200
Until the 1600s, the Renaissance spread forward and north from ____
What is Italy?
200
Governments became more rational and ___
What is bureaucratic?
200
Vesalius began work on the
What is the human anatomy?
200
Capitalism developed as part of the Enlightenment, the most famous supporter being the Scottish
Who is Adam Smith?
200
Henry VII really wanted to marry Anne Boleyn so he created the ______
What is the Church of England?
300
Europe's global power skyrocketed because of ____
What is gunpowder weaponry?
300
Europe's archetypal monarch who ruled from 1661 to 1715.
Who is Louis XIV?
300
Copernicus developed the
What is the heliocentric theory?
300
The use of machines and other advances in manufacturing became the pre-cursor to ___
What is industrialization?
300
A prime cause of Europe's remarkable cultural growth.
What is the movable-type printing press?
400
Developed an absolute monarchy, but remained backwards in every other way humanly possible.
Where is Russia?
400
_____ developed the laws of gravity and calculus and ultimately ruined the lives of thousands of students.
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
These faiths maintained that women were inferior and more sinful compared to men, and used the scripture to base these arguments.
What is catholicism and protestantism?
400
Was an immediate pre-cursor to the Industrial Revolution.
What is proto-industrialization?
500
The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) pitted Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Catholic Germans against ____
Who is Dutch, the Danes, the Swedes, the Protestant German states, and Catholic France
500
England and ___ ______ _______ became parliamentary monarchies.
What is the Dutch Republic?
500
Instruments invented during this time are the microscope, telescope the pendulum clock, the thermometer, and the _____
What is the barometer?
500
Woman gained greater access to education and participated more in _____
What is intellectual life?
500
Women made up most of the victims in ____
What are witch hunts?