Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
French Revolution and Napoleon
Nationalism Triumphs in Europe
World War I
100

Italian / was active as a painter, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect

da Vinci    

100

This person said, people are born with the natural rights of "life, liberty, and property."

John Locke

100

A fortress in Paris / It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France

Bastille

100

A way of thinking that says that some groups of humans, such as ethnic groups, should be free to rule themselves / Common beliefs, languages, and history

Nationalism

100

Archduke / heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary

Franz Ferdinand

200

Were written by Martin Luther in 1517 and are widely regarded as the primary means for the Protestant Reformation

95 Thesis

200

Formulated the theory of universal gravity

Isaac Newton

200

A general panic that took place between 22 July to 6 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution

Great Fear

200

Belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values

Militarism

200

A formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting until peace can be negotiated

Armistice

300

German monk

Martin Luther

300

Concluded that the best form of government was one in which the legislative, executive, and judicial powers were separate and kept each other in check to prevent any branch from becoming too powerful

Montesquieu

300

Set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution

Declaration of the Rights of Man

300

The theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection / Allowed people to make other people feel inferior or not human

Social Darwinism    

300

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

Central Powers

400

Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center

Copernicus

400

"The Father of Capitalism''

Adam Smith    

400

Encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution

Robespierre    

400

German statesman who masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as its first chancellor until 1890

Otto von Bismarck

400

Great Britain, France, Russia, the United States

Allied Powers

500

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170

Thomas Becket

500

“allow to do,” as in: the government does not interfere in the marketplace

laissez-faire

500

The last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution

Louis XVI        

500

An Italian general and patriot / He contributed to the Italian unification  

Garibaldi    

500

Peace treaties that brought World War I to an end

Treaty of Versailles