The Plague and the Church
The Renaissance
Exploration and the Columbian Exchange
The Reformation and Counter Reformation
Scientific Revolution and Other
100

The most distinctive symptom is a painful, swollen lymph node known as a "bubo," typically in the groin, armpits, or neck, following a flea bite that can grow to the size of an egg or even apple. This a common sympton of this deadly introduced in Europe in the 1300's.

What is the Black Death or Bubonic Plague?

100

The term Renaissance comes from the French language and translates to this English term.

What is Rebirth or Revival?

100

These three G's are said to be the main motivations behind European Exploration.

What are God, Glory, and Gold?

100

This German Monk is commonly thought to be the satrt of the Protestant Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire in 1517.

Who is Martin Luther?
100

The Scientific Method was a practical approach to investigating the principals of nature developed by this English Philosopher.

Who is Sir Francis Bacon?

200

The Black Death is thought to have started in this region of Asia and was spread along this traditional trade route to Europe.

(Answer with both)

What is Mongolia/Central Asia and the Silk Road?

200

The Renaissance propsed Secular ideals in Europe which can best be described as having these types of views.

What is a Worldy (non-spiritual) View?

200

The Columbian Exchange resulted in this major negative consequence in the Americas, but allowed European empires to easily take advantage of the vast resources found in the New World.

What is the Die off of the Native Americans due to Diesease Transference?

200

This document was nailed to the door of the Catholic Church in Wittenberg (A German State of the Holy Roman Empire) by Martin Luther in 1517.

What are the 95 Theses the Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences?

200

The Black Death led many peasants to demand this compensation from their lords due to the decreased population/workforce.

What is Higher Wages?

300

This European minority group was largley blamed for spreading the Black Death by 'poisoning' village wells or performing witch craft.

Who are European Jews?

300
The Northern Renaissance focused on this theme for a majority of the artwork created during this period over the Italian Renaissance which centered around the revival of Roman and Greek culture.

What is Religion or Christian Artwork?

300
This Portuguese explorer was hired by Spain to attempt a circumnavigation of the globe, however, he died in the Phillipines.

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

300

The Council of Trent was assembled in 1545 by this Catholic Pope in order to reaffirm Catholice doctrine and reform the Church to address the Protestant Reformation.

Who is Pope Paul III?

300

A new worldview emphasizing natural laws, the development of key technologies, the decline of supernatural beliefs, the rise of the Enlightenment describes this period of European history.

What is the Scientific Revolution
400

The Church used these campaigns to increase their wealth and power by attempting to reclaim the Holy Land in the Middle East.

What are the Crusades?

400

This invention help fuel the spread of Secularism in both the Renaissance and the Reformation and was developed in Europe by this person, but had already been invented in this country.

(Three Answers)

What is the Printing Press made by Johan Gutenberg and previously invented in China?

400

The nation of Spain was given permission by Pope Alexander VI to colonize most of what is now known as North and South America after creating this treaty in 1494.

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

400

Following the signing of this treaty in 1555, German Princes of the Holy Roman Empire were allowed to choose whether or not their kingdoms would follow Catholic or Lutheran practices.

What is the Peace of Augsburg?

400

“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.” 

This quote can be found in this book authored by Niccolo Machiavelli as a guide for European Nobles

What is The Prince?

500

Although the Black Death was devistating, one potentially positive outcome was an increase in Europes _______ ______ due to the fact the preists fled their parishes to survive the plague forcing people to worship on their own.

What is the Literacy Rate?

500

The Itailian Renaissance was made possible due in part to trade with the Middle East facilitated by this European Republic which focused on controlling Mediterranean Sea Trade.

What is the Venitian Republic or Republic of Venice?

500

This system of trade was initially used by the colonizing powers of Europe to exploit resources from the New World for the benifit of the European Colonizer (Mother Country).

What is Mercantilism?

500

Martin Luther found himself permanetly set against the Catholic Church after this trial which was held in front of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1521.

What is the Diet of Worms?

500

This Italian philosopher was among the first Europeans in the Scientific Revolution to propose a heliocentric model, which stated that the Earth revolves around the Sun; rather than the Sun revolving around the Earth which was commonly believed by the Church.

Who is Galileo Galilei?