Midterm: Unit 2 Word Scramble
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TERM | ID/SIG. |
Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450 - 1500) | (Portugal) Rounded Cape of Good Hope |
Vasco da Gama (c. 1460 - 1524) | (Portugal) Rounded Cape of Good Hope , but also made few stops at Muslim ports. |
John Cabot | (England) New England Coastline of the Americas |
Bartolome de Las Casas | Wrote against encomienda. |
Boers | Dutch farmers. |
King Affonso of Cogo | Forced to do slave trade. |
Robert Clive | Chief Rep. of the East India Company. Used his military brilliance to bring back total British control in India and leave no trace of the French. |
Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594) | Flemish mapmaker. Made one of the most famous map projections. |
Ferdinand II | Catholic Archbishop (HRE). Took part in the Bohemian phase of the 30 yrs. war. |
Christian IV (1588 - 1648) | Fought for the protestants the Danish phase of the 30 yrs. war. |
Maximilian of Bovaria | Joined Ferdinand II on the Catholic side of the Bohemian phase of the 30 yrs. war. |
Gustavus Adolphus (1611 - 1635) | Responsible for retrieving Sweden and making it a major Baltic power by aiding the Protestants in the Swedish phase of the 30 yrs. war. |
Wallenstein | Bohemian nobleman who fought for the Catholics in the Bohemian phase of the 30 yrs. war. |
Peace of Westphalia (1648) | Ended war in Germany and in ensures that all German states were free to determine their own religion. |
Bishop Bossuet (1627 - 1704) | "Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture" : Divine Right |
Louis XIV (1643 - 1715) | "Sun King" : Versailles |
Peter the Great (1689 - 1725) | Tsar of Russia : Tried to Westernize Russia. |
The Great Northern War | Sweden (Charles XII) vs. Russia (Peter) = Battle of Neva (1700) : Beginning of War. Peter eventually built St. Petersburg with the land that he gained. |
Charles XII (1697 - 1718) | Lost most of Sweden's northern borders to Russia. |
William III Of Orange (1672 - 1702) | Glorious Revolution ; William and Mary. |
James I (r. 1603 - 1625) | (England) Divine Right ; Parliament problems ; Got rid of Star Chamber |
Charles I (1625 - 1649) | (England) Petition of Right (found ways around taxation law) |
English Civil War (1642 - 1646) | Parliament (New Model Army - Oliver Cromwell) vs. King |
Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658) | Created New Model Army ; Led commonwealth England (1649 - 1653) |
Rump Parliament (1648 - 1653) | Promote divinity and restrict Puritans ; Blasphemy Act of 1650 (stopped religious zeal) ; Adultery Act (death penalty for adultery) |
Charles II (1660 - 1685) | (England) Declaration of Indulgences (suspended laws passed by Parliament against Catholics and Puritans) ; Parliament passed the Test Act of 1673 (allowed only Anglicans to hold military and civil offices) in retaliation. |
James II (1685 - 1688) | (England) Went against the Test Act of 1673 and revised the Declaration of Indulgences. |
William and Mary | Bill of Rights and Toleration Act of 1689 (granted Puritans rights of public worship). |
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) | "Leviathan" (1651) : Need for Absolute Monarchy. |
John Locke (1632 - 1704) | "Two Treatises of Government" : Against absolutism b/c he believed that humans lived in a state of equality and freedom rather than a state of war. |
Mannerism | Art style that reflected an anxiety-filled, uncertain, suffering, and yearning environment. |
El Greco | (Mannerism) : Domenikos Theotocopoulos (1541- 161) |
Baroque | Art style that used dramatic effects to express emotion. |
Bernini (1598 - 1680) | Saint Peters Basilica |
Gentileschi (1593 - 1653) | Heroines from the Old Testament |
French Classicism | Act of reviving Renaissance art when the French took over Italy as the cultural center of Europe. |
Rembrandt (1606 - 1669) | Finest product of the golden age of Dutch painting. |
Racine (1639 - 1699) | "Phedre" : Showed perfection in French neoclassical tragic style. |
Moliere (1622 - 1673) | "Tartuffe" : Enjoyed the favor of the French court and benefited from the patronage of King Louis XIV. |
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