Championed the concept of predestination and invited to head community that embraced his ideas in Geneva, Switzerland
Who is John Calvin?
100
Two countries behind the Torsedillas Treaty
What are Portugal and Spain?
100
Argued that excessive demand for reparations after World War I would impoverish Germany and hurt Europe's economy more generally
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
200
'Outcasts' in traditional Japanese society
Who were the eta? (Or ... Who were those who dealt with the dead and unclean things?)
200
Hitler manipulated this political boss to consolidate power
Who is Hindenburg?
200
Passage of the Act of Supremacy (1534) ended his ecclesiastical power in all of England
Who is the pope of the Roman Catholic Church?
200
Perry's ships anchored here while waiting for the Shogun's response
What is Tokyo Bay?
200
These two sectors made up the heart of colonial economies in Latin America
What are silver mining and sugar plantations?
300
Philosophe who argued that government is created to protect citizens' life, liberty and property
Who was John Locke?
300
THREE of the six stages of Brinton's "Anatomy of a Revolution"
What are Fall of the Old Order, Rule by moderates, The Terror, Turn from radical rule, Military rule and Restoration?
300
Order of priests that in many respects led the Catholic Reformation
Who were the Jesuits (led by Ignatius of Loyola)?
300
First successful British settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
300
Colonial system that divided Amerindians among settlers and forced them to provide labor
What is encomienda?
400
Two philosophes who believed in a 'social contract'
Who are Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
400
Prior to Lenin's revolution, he briefly served as the post-czarist Provisional Government's prime minister
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
400
Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses here
Where is Wittenberg?
400
The four major islands of Japan
What are Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku and Kyushu?
400
Reduced Germany's reparation payments and promised loans from the United States to promote recovery
What is the Dawes Plan (1924)?
500
Two painting techniques (Italian terms, please!) used by Renaissance artists
What is chiaroscuro (contrasting light and shadows in art to give 3-D effect) and sfumato (allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another)?
500
Two Qing emperors who fueled substantial economic, military and cultural achievements
Who were Kangxi (r. 1662-1722) and Qianlong (r. 1736-1796)?
500
Formally reaffirmed the validity of selling indulgences, even after many broke away from the Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation
What is the Council of Trent (1564)?
500
Columbus first encountered the Arawaks of these islands
What are the Bahamas?
500
Josiah Wedgwood's most important contribution to England's early industrialization