Kings, Queens, and Government
This absolute monarch ruled France from 1643 until 1715.
Who is Louis XIV?
A system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a greater lord.
What is feudalism?
In 1492, this Italian explorer sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Mona Lisa was painted by this artist.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This reformer wrote the 95 Theses, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
Of the five great European powers in the Age of Absolutism, this country was the only one without an absolute monarch.
What is England? (alternative answers: Great Britain, United Kingdom)
An economic system built around large estates.
What is manorialism?
What is Jamestown?
This was the first book printed on the Gutenberg printing press.
What is the Bible?
Divorced, beheaded, and died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
What are the fates of Henry VIII's wives?
This Portuguese prince was one of the first European rulers to fund overseas exploration.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
The Black Death had this effect on production and wages in Europe, respectively.
What is decreased and increased?
Guns, horses, and disease.
What allowed Europeans to conquer Native Americans despite being outnumbered?
This scientist discovered gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The belief that God already decided everyone's fates in the afterlife, held by Calvinists.
What is predestination?
Who is Charlemagne?
An economic policy where a nation tried to export more than it imported to build its supply of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
This explorer was the first to reach the coast of India by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
The Renaissance began in this century.
What is the 1300s?
The split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.
What is the Great Schism?
This Byzantine ruler revised ancient Roman law to create a new set of laws for the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Justinian?
Increased wealth from colonies led to this effect on European economies.
What is inflation?
Mutiny
What is a revolt by sailors or soldiers against their officers?
Demand for labor on plantations.
What caused the transatlantic slave trade to expand?
What is the Council of Trent?