Europe (1450-1750) Review Sheet
Commercial Revolution
Renaissance
William Shakespeare
Niccolò Machiavelli
Protestant Reformation
Johannes Gutenberg
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Catholic Reformation
(or Counter-Reformation)
Council of Trent
Ignatius Loyola
Philip II
Spanish Armada
Charles V
Spanish Inquisition
Absolutism
James I
Oliver Cromwell
English Civil War
(Puritan Revolution)
Glorious Revolution
William & Mary
English Bill of Rights
Dutch Republic
Louis XIV
Edict of Nantes
Ivan III (great)
Ivan IV (terrible)
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Balance of Power
30 Year’s War
Treaty of Westphalia
Seven Year’s War
Capitalism
Mercantilism
Joint-stock companies
Putting-out system
Russian serfs
Adam Smith
Scientific Revolution
Ptolemy
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Emilie du Chatelet
Enlightenment
John Locke
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
Enlightened despot
Frederick the Great
Maria Teresa
Questions for Thought
1. Discuss CCOT with regard to the political structure of Europe from 1450 to 1750.
2. How did European countries use mercantilism to increase power?
3. Discuss how new economic structures disrupted the political/economic power structures of the post-classical era (European gentry & urban entrepreneurs).
4. Discuss the relationship of religion and government in early modern Europe.
5. What were the effects of Mongol occupation on Russian civilization?
6. How did Russian tsars attempt to achieve legitimacy over their people?
7. Why was Russian serfdom strengthened and how did that affect Russian progress?
8. How does Renaissance art represent both innovations in art the culture of the time?
9. How did Russian expansion affect peasant labor?
10. How did European society change during the early modern period?
11. How did European rulers use both the arts and religious ideas to display political power and legitimize their rule?
12. How did European rulers develop military professionals to maintain centralized control?
13. How did Russia create a land empire?
14. How did state (country) rivalries provide challenges to state consolidation and expansion?