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AP European History Jeopardy Crisis Years Here Comes the Sun Abso- lutely! Jolly Old England Arts & Crafts Eureka! $100 $200 $300 $400 $500
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Answer Millions of women fell victim to this “craze” during the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Question What is the witchcraft craze?
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Answer While not as long as the 100 years’ war, this conflict devastated the German lands in the 17th century.
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Question What is the 30 years’ war?
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Answer This treaty ended the long religious war that ravaged Germany; it also established the principles of German Religious self- determination, the independence of the Netherlands, and the principle of national sovereignty.
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Question What is the Threaty of Westphalia (1648)?
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Answer This Swedish king led the modernization of militaries and tactics that helped lead to the centralized state.
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Question Who is King Gustavus Adolphus?
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Answer This is one of Mr. Lisec’s favorite terms, describing the Bohemian practice of tossing unpopular officials out of the window.
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Question What is defenestration, as in the Defenestration of Prague?
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Answer This palace was both a “Golden Cage” for Louis’ nobles, the seat of government, and a symbol of power to all visitors.
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Question What is Versailles?
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Answer This saying sums up Louis’ idea of being an absolute monarch.
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Question What was “L’etat, c’est moi” (I am the state)?
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Answer This rebellion shaped little king Louis’ early distrust of the French nobility and the people.
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Question What is The Fronde?
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Answer This individual ran the French government for Louis XIII, and set the stage for the powers Louis XIV would assume.
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Question Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
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Answer Unlike his present day Comedy Central namesake, this man had real influence over the French government and finances during Louis XIV’s reign.
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Question Who is Jean-Baptiste Colbert?
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Answer This is the idea that monarchs derive their just powers from God.
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Question What is Divine Right Monarchy?
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Answer This Russian Tsar tried to modernize his country by importing Western technology and cultural ideas.
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Question Who is Peter the Great?
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Answer This German state, ruled by the Hohenzollern dynasty, began expanding it power and territories under Frederick William.
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Question What is Brandenburg-Prussia?
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Answer This brand-new Russian city on the Baltic Sea was intended to be a “Window on the West.”
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Question What is St. Petersburg?
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Answer This Ottoman ruler conquered Belgrade, Hungary, and nearly took Vienna in 1529.
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Question Who is Sultan Suleiman I, the Magnificent?
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Answer This 17th Century English monarch literally “lost his head” over disputes with Parliament.
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Question Who is Charles I?
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Answer This puritan leader of the New Model Army presided became a military dictator in England after 1653.
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Question Who is Oliver Cromwell?
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Answer This English philosopher and author of Two Treatises on Government believed that if governments broke the Social Contract, it was the right of the people to replace that government.
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Question Who is John Locke?
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Answer This usually happy event lead to the Glorious Revolution overthrowing English King James II.
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Question What was the birth of a (Catholic) son?
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Answer This English philosopher and author of The Leviathan believed that without government to restrain the animalistic instincts of men, life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
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Question Who is Thomas Hobbes?
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Answer This Peter Paul Rubens painting is typcial of what style of art:
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Question What is the Baroque?
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Answer The Mannerist painter of this work was Greek but worked in Spain.
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Question Who is El Greco?
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Answer Judith Leyster’s work is exemplary of which artistic movement?
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Question What is Dutch Realism?
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Answer The Baldachin in St Peter’s was the work of which Baroque Architect and Sculptor?
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Question Who was Gian Lorenzo Bernini?
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Answer This is a self- portrait of which famous Dutch artist?
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Question Who is Rembrandt van Rijn?
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Answer This astronomer was forced to recant his heliocentric theories, but nonethless mumbled “And yet it moves.”
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Question Who is Galileo Galelei?
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Answer This scheme represents the geocentric cosmos of which Greek philosopher?
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Question Who is Ptolemy?
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Answer This Polish mathematician first exploded the geocentric concept of the universe, putting the sun at the center, but keeping the Ptolemaic idea of heavenly spheres.
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Question Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
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Answer Cogito, ergo sum “sums” up whose philosophical examination of the nature of existence?
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Question Who is René Descartes?
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Answer The mechanistic conceptualization of the universe, with God-given universal laws governing time, space and motion was whose contribution to physics?
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Question Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
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