Hist Test One
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- The statement, "Men can do all things if they will," was made by...
- Leon Battista Alberti
- The Renaissance painter noted for his Madonnas & his School of Athens was...
- Raphael
- Characteristics of marriage & family in Renassaince Italy were...
- Males dominated the family & marriages were arranged by the parents.
- The Third Estate was...
- composed primarily of peasants, who comprised as much as 85 to 90% of the population.
- Political recoveries of 1400s Europe:
- cent mon gained strength in W Eur; decent mon gained strength in Germ central Eur; "new mon's" greatly aided in stabilizing France, Sp, Bavaria & Eng
- The author of The Divine Comedy & The Prince
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Complaints of religious Europeans around 1500 was...
- dissatisfaction with the orthodox beliefs & practices of the church
- Positions taken by Martin Luther:
- Salvation would be achieved through faith; German princes should estab a reformed German church; purchase of indulgences would not lead to salvation
- After Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled by the Archbishop of Canterbury, ...
- Parliament finalized England's religious break with Rome by passing the Act of Supremacy, making Henry the head of the Anglican church.
- Under Calvin, what city became the Calvinist "Rome"?
- Geneva
- Absolute obediance to Papacy; use education to restore Catholicism in Europe; restoration of Catholicism in areas of Germany & E Eur.
- The Jesuit order
- The Coucil of Trent took the position that...
- faith & good works were required for salvation
- What ruler was drawn into conflict with Spain?
- Queen Elizabeth I
- feed the frenzy; accusations led to trials; many accused were female.
- witchcraft craze in 1500s & 1600s
- exports should exceed imports; high, protectionist tariffs on imports; colonies were sources of raw materials & markets for exports.
- Basic tenets of 1600s mercantilism
- majority of govt expenditures were for military purposes; to "open a window to the west"; modernize Russia.
- policies of Peter the Great
- created new cosmology; mechanical explanation of things; universal motion could be mathematically explained.
- relevances to Newton's discoveries
- What European nation did NOT establish colonies in the New World?
- Bavaria
- established a school for navigators in 1419
- Prince Henry
- The Cape of Good Hope was rounded in 1487 by...
- Bartolomeu Dias