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World Civ II, Test Two.
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1The [blank_start]blank[blank_end] was "The movement against the holy roman church, sparked by Martin Luther because of the corruption , a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches."
- AProtestant Reformation
2The [blank_start]blank[blank_end] is the site where, the ninety-five thesis were posted by Martin Luther in 1517, the act that has been called the start of the protestant reformation.
- AWittenberg Cathedral
3[blank_start]Blank[blank_end] was German monk and professor of theology at the university of wittenberg, A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices.
- AMartin Luther
4The Holy League are [blank_start]blank[blank_end].
- AAustria, Poland, Venice and Russia.
5[blank_start]Blank[blank_end] was was not a supporter of Luther and the Protestant Reformation (movement). The King wrote a book called 'Defence of the Seven Sacraments' which strongly supported the Catholic Church against Luther's idea that there were only two sacraments - Baptism and the Eucharist.
- AHenry VIII
6[blank_start]John Calvin[blank_end] went to Switzerland in 1534 because of religious persecution in France. Set up new protestant church in Geneva. His Beliefs became known as calvinism his followers Calvinists
- AJohn Calvin
7[blank_start]Huguenots[blank_end] were French Protestants. The Edict of Nantes (1598) freed them from persecution in France, but when that was revoked in the late 1700s, hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled to other countries, including America. User-contributed.
- AHuguenots
8[blank_start]Ignacio de Loyola[blank_end] was a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who co-founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General at Paris in 1541.
- AIgnacio de Loyola
9The [blank_start]Society of Jesus[blank_end] is a religious order of the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded by Ignatius of Loyola with the approval of Pope Paul III in 1540. The members are called Jesuits. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations.
- ASociety of Jesus
10The [blank_start]Council of Trent[blank_end] was the formal Roman Catholic reply to the doctrinal challenges of the Protestant Reformation. It served to define Catholic doctrine and made sweeping decrees on self-reform, helping to revitalize the Roman Catholic Church in the face of Protestant expansion.
- AThe Council of Trent
11The [blank_start]St. Bartholomew's Day[blank_end] massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. 3,000 people killed, over the course of a couple weeks.
- ASt. Bartholomew's Day
12The [blank_start]Thirty Years War[blank_end] Conflict over religion and territory and for power among European ruling families.
- AThirty Years War
13[blank_start]Maximilian Robespierre[blank_end] was a French lawyer and politician who was one of the best known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. As a member of the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club, he campaigned for universal manhood suffrage, and the abolition both of celibacy for the clergy and of slavery.
- AMaximilian Robespierre
14The [blank_start]Reign of Terror[blank_end] was a dark and violent period of time during the French Revolution. Radicals took control of the revolutionary government. They arrested and executed anyone who they suspected might not be loyal to the revolution.
- AReign of Terror
15A [blank_start]Jacobin[blank_end] was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution. The club was so called because of the Dominican convent in Paris in the Rue Saint-Jacques where they originally met.
- AJacobin
16The [blank_start]Directory[blank_end] was a five-member committee that governed France from 2 November 1795, when it replaced the Committee of Public Safety, until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire, and replaced by the French Consulate.
- ADirectory
17[blank_start]Olympe de Gouges[blank_end] was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries.
- AOlympe de Gouges
18[blank_start]Declaration of the Rights of Man[blank_end] was the document written by the National Assembly that identified the natural rights of the French citizens as well as their other liberties
- ADeclaration of the Rights of Man
19[blank_start]Declaration of the Rights of Woman[blank_end] was written by Olympe de Gouges and as a result of her writings, de Gouges was accused, tried and convicted of treason, resulting in her immediate execution, along with the Girondists in the Reign of Terror (one of only three women beheaded during the Reign of Terror - and the only executed for her political writings).
- ADeclaration of the Rights of Woman
20The [blank_start]guillotine[blank_end], which came to symbolize the French Revolution, was first used in 1792. Used to behead.
- Aguillotine
21[blank_start]Napoleon Bonaparte[blank_end] was a French statesman of Italian heritage and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- ANapoleon Bonaparte
22The [blank_start]Napoleonic Code[blank_end] is the French civil code established under the French Consulate in 1804. It was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on 21 March 1804.
- ANapoleonic Code
23The [blank_start]Haitian Revolution[blank_end] was a succesful anti-slavery and anti colonial insurrection by self liberated slaves against french colonia rule, now the sovereign nation of Saint Dominique/
- AHaitian Revolution
24Most of these were unsuccessful and were put down brutally.
There was never a successful slave revolt on mainland America however there were mass runaways, revolts and rebellions in the Caribbean. These are known as a [blank_start]Slave Uprising[blank_end].- ASlave Uprising
25[blank_start]Toussaint L'ouverture[blank_end] was the first leader of the Haitian Revolution, a former slave (1743-1803) who wrote the first constitution of Haiti and served as the first governor of the newly independent state.
- AToussaint L'ouverture
26The [blank_start]Grand Blanc[blank_end] were the wealthy white upper class of Saint-Domingue, including planters, bureaucrats, and so on. It was this group that owned most plantations and slaves in the French colony.
- AGrand Blanc
27The [blank_start]Petit Blanc[blank_end] were the "little" (or poor) white population of Saint Domingue, which played a significant role in the Haitian Revolution.
- APetit Blanc
28On July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress declared that the thirteen American colonies were no longer subject (and subordinate) to the monarch of Britain and were now united, free, and independent states. The Congress had voted to declare independence two days earlier, on July 2, but it was not declared until July 4. This is known as the [blank_start]United States Independence[blank_end].
- AUnited States Independence
29[blank_start]Mary Wollstonecraft[blank_end] is the author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen” which is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.
- AMary Wollstonecraft
30Founded in 1602, [blank_start]the Dutch East India company[blank_end], a joint- stock company held a monopoly on Dutch trade in Asia. Within 70 years it was arguably the largest and most successful trading company in Europe at the time. Financial and political troubles led to its dissolution in 1800 with its assets passing to the Dutch monarchy
- Athe Dutch East India company
31[blank_start]The Enlightenment[blank_end] was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, the "Century of Philosophy". The Enlightenment emerged out of a European intellectual and scholarly movement known as Renaissance humanism.
- AThe Enlightenment
32[blank_start]Liberalism[blank_end] is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law.
- ALiberalism
33[blank_start]Adam Smith[blank_end] was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment, also known as ''The Father of Economics'' or ''The Father of Capitalism''
- AAdam Smith
34By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Smith wrote [blank_start]On the Wealth of Nations[blank_end] which touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets.
- AOn the Wealth of Nations
35A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering is known as [blank_start]Laissez-faire[blank_end]
- ALaissez-faire
36[blank_start]Benjamin Franklin[blank_end] was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
- ABenjamin Franklin
37The [blank_start]Industrial Revolution[blank_end], now also known as the First Industrial Revolution, was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
- AIndustrial Revolution
38The [blank_start]Seven Years War[blank_end] was a global war fought between 1756 and 1763. It involved all five European great powers of the time plus many of the middle powers and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines.
- ASeven Years War
39The [blank_start]French and Indian War[blank_end] pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies.
- AFrench and Indian War
40The [blank_start]Single Whip Law[blank_end] made it so that taxes were now being paid through just silver, to keep up with China's high demand for it.
- ASingle Whip Law
41The [blank_start]Qing[blank_end] Breached the Ming dynasty and the great wall after Ming over-extended itself.
- AQing
42[blank_start]Peter the Great[blank_end] had a number of successful wars, he expanded the Tsardom into a much larger empire that became a major European power and also laid the groundwork for the Russian navy after capturing ports at Azov and the Baltic Sea. He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, Westernised and based on the Enlightenment.
- APeter the Great
43[blank_start]Ivan the Terrible[blank_end] 's reign was characterized by bad things such as war and transformations. Suffered something like Schizophrenia, kills his own son.
- AIvan the Terrible
44[blank_start]Ivan the Great[blank_end] was sometimes referred to as the "gatherer of the Russian lands", he tripled the territory of his state, ended the dominance of the Mongols/Tatars over Russia, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, introduced new legal codex and laid the foundations of the Russian state. His 1480 victory over the Great Horde is cited as the restoring of Russian independence 240 years after the fall of Kiev to Mongols' invasion. Enters important trade with Europe for trees. He establishes trade routes, breaks out of isolation.
- AIvan the Great
45The [blank_start]Bourbon Reforms[blank_end] consisted of political legislation promulgated by the Spanish Crown under various kings of the House of Bourbon, mainly in the 18th century. The strengthening of the crown's power with clear lines of authority to officials contrasted to the complex system of government that evolved under the Habsburg monarchs. In particular, the crown pursued state supremacy over the Catholic Church, resulting in the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1767 as well as an attempt to abolish ecclesiastical privilege.
- ABourbon Reforms
46[blank_start]Casta paintings[blank_end] are part of the 18th century artistic tradition of Colonial Latin America. These generally appear in groups of sixteen portraits that trace the complex racial mixing or mestizaje of the people in New Spain. Each painting depicts a couple along with one or two children.
- ACasta paintings
47[blank_start]Minas Gerais[blank_end], a large inland state in southeastern Brazil, is known for colonial-era towns dating to the country’s 18th-century gold rush. With cobblestone streets, ornate mansions and baroque churches decorated by the sculptor Aleijadinho, these towns include São João del Rei, Tiradentes and Ouro Preto, the old capital.
- AMinas Gerais
48[blank_start]Barbados[blank_end] is an eastern Caribbean island and an independent British Commonwealth nation. Bridgetown, the capital, is a cruise-ship port with colonial buildings and Nidhe Israel, a synagogue founded in 1654. Around the island are beaches, botanical gardens, the Harrison’s Cave formation, and 17th-century plantation houses like St. Nicholas Abbey.
- ABarbados
49[blank_start]Barbados[blank_end] is an eastern Caribbean island and an independent British Commonwealth nation. Bridgetown, the capital, is a cruise-ship port with colonial buildings and Nidhe Israel, a synagogue founded in 1654. Around the island are beaches, botanical gardens, the Harrison’s Cave formation, and 17th-century plantation houses like St. Nicholas Abbey. Was used for sugar plantation.
- ABarbados
50On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launched the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Delores.” The revolutionary tract called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico, redistribution of land, and racial equality. This is known as [blank_start]Mexican Independence[blank_end].
- AMexican Independence
51The [blank_start]Criollos[blank_end] are Latin Americans who are of full or near full Spanish descent, distinguishing them from both multi-racial Latin Americans and Latin Americans of post-colonial European immigrant origin.
- ACriollos
52The [blank_start]peninsulares[blank_end] were the group of people who came directly from the Iberian Peninsula in Spain to the colonies in the Americas.
- Apeninsulares
53[blank_start]Miguel Hidalgo[blank_end] was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.
- AMiguel Hidalgo
54[blank_start]Mestizos[blank_end] are mixed race.
- AMestizos
55[blank_start]Indios[blank_end] are Indians.
- AIndios
56[blank_start]Alhondiga[blank_end] is an old grain storage building in Guanajuato City, Mexico. This historic building was created to replace an old grain exchange near the city's river. A place that was used for hiding and a place where a bunch of people got murdered during the Mexican Independence.
- AAlhondiga
57[blank_start]Grito de Dolores[blank_end] was the battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence, uttered on September 16, 1810, by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Roman Catholic priest from the small town of Dolores, near Guanajuato, Mexico.
- AGrito de Dolores
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