The doomed queen of France known as Madame Deficit.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
100
The year the Great War began.
What is 1914?
200
This city-state came to symbolize the energy and brilliance of the Italian Renaissance.
What is Florence (Firenze)?
200
He believed all people were born with natural rights and if a government failed to protect those rights, then the people have a right to overthrow it.
Who is John Locke?
200
The symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
200
His assassination triggered off alliance system that ultimately led to war.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
300
This Florentine family used their wealth and prestige to patronize artists.
Who were the Medici?
300
He wrote The Wealth of Nations and promoted the free market to regulate business.
Who is Adam Smith?
300
What was the name of the largest estate in the ancien regime?
What is the Third Estate?
300
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey (Italy changed sides)
What were the Central Powers?
400
This intellectual movement studied the classical culture of Greece and Rome in order to increase their understanding of their own times.
What is humanism?
400
These intellectual gatherings, hosted by aristocratic women, were central in determining the course of the Enlightenment and in diffusing its effects throughout Europe.
What are salons?
400
This document created by the National Assembly, was modeled in part on the American Revolution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
400
The contested stretch of land between trench lines.
What is No Man's Land?
500
He invented linear perspective and designed il Duomo in Florence.
Who is Fillippo Brunelleschi?
500
Catherine the Great and Frederick the Great
Who were Enlightened Despots
500
He led France during the bloodiest days of the "Reign of Terror" and ultimately lost his own head in the end.
Who is Robespierre?
500
The "mad monk" who helped to discredit Tsar Nicholas and his government.