French Revolution
This is the most famous "urban" uprising of the common people, credited with being the first violent event of the Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This is the birthplace of Napoleon, annexed by the French...
What is Corsica?
The second daughter of Henry VIII, who led England to a stunning victory over the Spanish armada and launched the Golden Age of English history.
Who is Elizabeth I?
Discovered and explained the circulatory system in the body
William Harvey
This artistic movement of the eighteenth century used emotions, feelings, and imagination as a source of knowing things...
What is Romanticism?
This revolutionary movement separated 500,000 slaves from their French plantation owners in the Caribbean...
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This battle was the final defeat of Napoleon, leading to his permanent exile to St. Helena and effectively ending the Napoleonic era...
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This event marked the "turning point" in the history of the Reformation, acknowledging the division of Christianity and granting equal legal standing to Protestants.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
To increase the control of the Church over the French population, he revoked the ________and replaced it with the ____________,
Edict of Nantes, Edict of Fontainebleau
This humanistic Renaissance painting by Raphael has Plato and Aristotle at its center.
What is The School of Athens (1510-1511)?
This "executive" organization, with one of its most important members being Maximilien Robespierre, was granted broad powers by the National Convention to administer justice and crush anarchy and counterrevolutions...
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
met in 1814-1815 to re-establish the European order and essentially “undo” the French Revolution.
What is the Congress of Vienna
Believers in "predestination," this Protestant group was centered in Geneva and became one of the international forms of Protestantism.
What is Calvinism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
is a Latin phrase meaning "blank slate.“
Tabula Rasa
This northern humanist wrote a powerful critique of Catholic Church abuses in In Praise of Folly.
Who is Erasmus?
This is the name for the month of the Revolution where the Terror began to cease, churches were reopened, the Jacobin club was shut down and freedom of worship was granted...
What is the Thermidorian Reaction?
After his defeat to the British at Trafalgar, Napoleon turned all of his attention to this, which was a full-fledged effort to weaken Britain economically...
What was the Continental System?
The edict issued by the Pope in 1494 divided the world between Spain and Portugal by drawing a line down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Treaty of Tordesillas
Louis XIV was nine years old when the nobles, driven by hatred of this prime minister rose against the crown in 1648.
Who is Cardinal Mazarin
This guy wrote a masterpiece in the Italian Vernacular about the different levels of hell in the Divine Comedy.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
This Jacobin group defeated their political rivals in the Convention, the Girondins, and found the king guilty of treason and executed him on January 21, 1793...
Who were the Mountain?
The name for Napoleon's "abandonment" of the Russian campaign during a terrible winter that cost him 40,000 troops...
What is the "Great Retreat"?
This was the period in which two popes controlled the Catholic Church: one from Rome and the other from Avignon.
What is the Great Schism?
In 1713 this ended the war of Spanish succession
This Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII wrote Utopia, a view of an ideal society based on Renaissance ideals.
Who is Thomas More?